Robbie Fowler joins Paddy Power as a columnist for Euro 2012. Today he gives...
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A Hazard Warning: Big price tags bring no guarantees
This piece carries the header ‘A Hazard Warning’ mainly for the punnery rather than because Chelsea fans should be genuinely worried at the prospect of spending a sizeable sum on a Belgian. Hulk is a different matter. Reports in the media suggest Roman Abramovich is about to spend upwards of £60m to land Lille’s playmaker [...]
Monday Mancrush: Carl Froch, you knock us out
After being outclassed by Andre Ward in the final of the Super Six super-middleweight tournament last December, big questions were asked about what the 34-year-old Carl Froch had left in the tank. Coming in to Saturday’s fight with Lucien Bute (32), Nottingham-based Froch was the 17/10 underdog. Few pundits gave him much of a chance [...]
Trap’s concern at ‘ugly’ image of Italian football
Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni (72) has weighed in to the latest match-fixing scandal to emerge from his home country. The former Italy manager admits he was shocked by the news that players, including Lazio captain Stefano Mauri and ex-Genoa midfielder Omar Milanetto, have been arrested by police in connection with the investigation. “It is a [...]
A great Money-Back Special at the French Open
The French Open has been something of a one-homme-show for the last few years. Rafael Nadal has almost invariably been doing his lame ‘biting the trophy’ shtick on the final Sunday, but there’s always plenty of drama and angry shouting at line judges to keep us entertained en route to that inevitability. Our Money-Back Special [...]
Video: Gordon Ramsay gets F-Worded up by Teddy Sheringham
Gordon Ramsay may be sending a Facebook friend request to Andy Cole this morning so they can share their common hatred for the wrinkly Peter Pan that is Teddy Sheringham. During last night’s Soccer Aid charity game at Old Trafford, which is supposed to be played for fun and fundraising, 46-year-old Sheringham thought it appropriate [...]
Rodgers and Martinez at 5/4 but is Klopp set for Kop?
Brendan Rodgers and Roberto Martinez are both locked at 5/4 with Paddy Power in the betting to become next Liverpool manager. But whispers this morning from the home of Mickey Mouse, along with a huge amount of cash overnight, make Borussia Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp a serious contender. The 44-year-old German is now 3/1 from [...]
A weekend of refunds costs Paddy Power over £130,000
It’s been a painful weekend for Paddy Power. And not just because he spent eight hours in the sun on Saturday without realising he’d actually applied mayonnaise rather than sun-cream. Damn you Hellmann’s with your convenient but easily mistake-able easy-squeeze packaging! It all started on Saturday night. As Taylor’s Sky (Trap 4) finished 4th in [...]
Bluffer’s guide to … Poland
Fun fact… The Poles have been known to make a brandy from plums that regularly tops 70% ABV. It’s known locally as Sliwowica, but the rest of the world refer to it by its more common name of ‘Toilet Duck’. Wikipedia ‘fact’… The Polish born, Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes. One in physics for [...]
The years keep Roland by for Andy Murray
Andy Murray is still a young man. Young enough to use an emoticon without it feeling a little bit creepy. He can probably still get away with having Batman bedsheets if he says he’s doing it ‘ironically’. The problem is, in the world of tennis, he’s no longer a whippersnapper. It’s getting to that point [...]
The Monaco Grand Prix. A cheeky excuse to watch models in bikinis
Fans of motor racing will be looking forward to the most prestigious race in the Formula One calendar this weekend. If you’re not a fan of motor racing then you could still get excited by the thought of plenty of scantily clad glamour models walking around yachts while Bernie Ecclestone sips champagne. Wonder what attracts him [...]
