‘Even our schoolboys can beat the English’ a headline on Stuff.co.nz trumpeted misleadingly after New Zealand claimed victory in the 1st ODI against England. It was a total lie as New Zealand didn’t field a team of pubescent teenagers, but one of the schoolboys did take a blinder of a catch in his role as […]
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ODI preview: Will England be able to beat India’s 50-over stars?
By Andrew Robinson Consistently inconsistent – that is one term which could be levelled at England’s cricketers over the past year or so. Taught a lesson by Pakistan at the turn of 2012, they then went on to draw with Sri Lanka, defeat the West Indies and lose to South Africa in Test matches. More […]
6 sporting contests to beat the January blues
By Andrew Robinson What a year 2012 was. The Olympics, the Ryder Cup and Euro 2012. It’s enough to get you down, but before you reach for the dark glasses and spend the next 12 months hibernating, there’s plenty going on in January to get you over the hump. 1. ODI Internationals England’s seemingly never-ending […]
Betting news on Arsenal, England and Smad Place
Football Wayne Rooney is having another baby and Cristiano Ronaldo says he won’t celebrate if he scores against Manchester United when Real Madrid take the Red Devils on in the Champions League Round of 16 tie. All it really tells us is it’s not the most inspiring round of Premier League fixtures we’ve ever seen. […]
Can Captain Cook steer 2/1 England to victory?
By Andrew Robinson | Test Cricket England go in to tomorrow morning’s fourth and final Test Match against India attempting to break a 28-year hoodoo. You have to go as far back as the 1984/85 tour to find the last time that they won a series in these tricky sub-continental conditions. Back then, David Gower’s […]
Betting news on Arsenal, the cricket, the racing and the weather
Football Seven years, six months and 20 days. That’s how long it has been since Arsenal last won a trophy and it’s going to read even worse now the Gunners are out of the Capital One Cup. Despite playing almost his strongest side Arsene Wenger could not break down a resilient Bradford City who deservedly […]
Five sportspeople doing surprisingly well at Movember
By Aidan Elder | Chief Movember expert Movember isn’t for everybody, it’s fair to say. For some it comes naturally (and suspiciously easily if we’re being honest – not looking at Keith Fahey in particular), whilst for others it’s a bigger struggle than sitting through an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Some sportspeople […]
Betting news on David Beckham, Stuart Broad and today’s racing
Football Sir David Beckham has said he will leave LA Galaxy after the MLS Final in December. England’s most capped outfield player has been at LA since 2007 and has helped the sport grow over in the States. The 37-year-old has scored 20 goals in 116 starts for the Galaxy and is ‘looking for one last challenge before he […]
Betting news on €500k refunds, West Ham and the cricket
Refunds It was an expensive weekend for Paddy Power as we paid out more than €500,000 to punters in Money-Back Specials on the horse-racing, football and darts. Ruby Walsh, Gareth Bale and a whole host of darts players were the men that hit Paddy hardest and gave punter’s pockets a healthy boost with Christmas just around the corner. Paddy pays […]
England hopes of victory are more than a positive spin
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer India. It’s the toughest tour of them all. No-one particularly likes the grueling scraps in South Africa, the heat of the Caribbean or the ‘having to listen Australians bragging’ of Australia, but none of those tours provide a set of challenges quite like India. Winning a series in […]
Betting news on Liverpool, Mark Webber and Templegate’s tips
Football Brendan Rodgers was left frustrated after watching Liverpool fall to a 3-2 defeat to Udinese at Anfield. ‘Lazy, loose and sloppy’ are the words he used to describe his teams performance and it now leaves the reds with a tricky test to qualify from group A of the Europa League. Elsewhere Spurs picked up a point in […]
Betting news on Mark Hughes, the Twenty20 and Templegate’s tips
Football QPR remain rock-bottom of the Premier League after a 2-1 home defeat to London rivals West Ham. Rangers now have two points from their opening six games and are still looking for their first win of the season. Matt Jarvis and Ricardo Vaz Te put the Hammers in control before the break before Adel Taarabt […]
Betting news on the Ryder Cup, Chelsea and the Twenty20
Golf What an incredible night! Europe came from 10-6 down on Saturday night to beat the American’s 14 1/2 – 13 1/2 and retain the Ryder Cup at the Medinah County Club. The Europeans won eight and halved one of the 12 singles matches on Sunday to seal one of the greatest fight-backs in the […]
Betting news on John Terry, T20 and the Ryder Cup
Football John Terry has called it a day on his international career. In a shock statement the Chelsea skipper announced that he had spoken with Roy and decided to end his England career. The decision comes as the FA hearing into his alleged racial abuse of Anton Ferdinand begins today. The 31-year-old picked up 78 caps […]
Betting news on Liverpool, England’s T20 bid and today’s racing
Football Liverpool got their Europa League campaign off to a winning start despite a few scares against Young Boys in Switzerland. The reds, whose average age was actually four years younger than that of the four boys went ahead through a bananas own goal but slipped behind and found themselves 3-2 behind with 20 minutes left on […]
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