THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED Thanks for your entries, but it’s time to pick a winner. The answer is the Camp Nou in Barcelona which I think we can all agree looks far less impressive from the outside. The Stade Geoffroy Guichard, home of St. Etienne was a popular incorrect guess, but only because someone […]
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Name the stadium for your chance to win a Free Bet
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED Thanks for your entries, but it’s time to pick a winner. The answer was VeltinsArena – home of Schalke in the Bundesliga and previously known as Gelsenkirchen during the 2006 World Cup. There were a few correct answers, but the one drawn out of the hat belongs to Ross Williams. […]
Name the stadium for your chance to win a Free Bet
We Have a Winner Chrissy M correctly identified the Santiago Bernabeu and wins a £25 free bet!! —————————————- I recently had a few days off and some time to do what I love most – travel around Europe taking random photos of football grounds for use in Paddy Power Blog competitions. In honour of Euro […]
Name the stadium for your chance to win a Free Bet
I recently had a few days off and some time to do what I love most – travel around Europe taking random photos of football grounds for use in Paddy Power Blog competitions. In honour of Euro 2012 and travelling to the great economic basket-case that is continental Europe, we’re casting our eyes abroad for […]
Name the stadium for your chance to win a Free Bet
WE HAVE A WINNER Congratulations to Gavin who, along with everyone else who could read the word ‘Mestalla’ written in big green letters on the side of the building, correctly identified this as Valencia’s Mestalla Stadium. Gavin’s ability to read has landed him a £25 free bet. Go education! —————————————– I recently had a few […]
Name the stadium for your chance to win a Free Bet
Thank you, thank you and thank you for all your entries, but this competition is now CLOSED. It turns out it wasn’t as difficult as I had predicted and I got plenty of correct answers. The answer was the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, home of Lazio, Roma and more recently, Italian rugby. The name […]
Name the stadium for your chance to win a Free Bet
Thank you, thank you and thank you for all your entries, but this competition is now CLOSED. It turns out it wasn’t as difficult as I had predicted and I got plenty of correct answers. The answer was the Estadio Do Dragao in Oporto, Portugal, home of Porto. The name drawn out of my hat […]
Name the stadium for your chance to win a Free Bet
AND THE WINNER IS … Thanks for playing round 1 of What’s That Stadium?, but this competition is now closed. We had a few correct answers and lucky person to have their name pulled out of the hat is Keith A Foot who correctly told us it’s Parc Des Princes in Paris, current home of […]
Video: Tekkers fail… he ain’t no Ronaldo
Mohammed Mahmoud Ghaddar (28) is the first Lebanese footballer to play in the Malaysia Super League. After watching this clip we can only assume the standard isn’t incredibly high.
Paddy Power rides his luck with enhanced specials
Over the last week few weeks, we’ve been offering some crazy enhanced prices on various football matches. They’re like normal prices, but dreamt up by someone who has clearly been drowning their morning All Bran in Jack Daniels. We’ve been taking bets, injecting them with a huge dose of steroids and sticking them up on […]
Check out Paddy Power’s new football pages
In the last few days Paddy Power has launched some new funky football pages. It’s the pages that are funky, by the way. Funky football isn’t some new type of sport we’re now taking bets on. They’re pretty snazzy either way and they’ve got loads of special features we think you’ll find pretty useful. It’s hard […]
We Have A Winner (And An Apology)
Hello and sorry. That’s a greeting I’ve had to utter countless times in the course of my life, but on this occasion it has nothing to do with too many whiskeys and my naked rendition of My Way. It has come to my attention that there were a few little technical difficulties with last week’s […]
More Chances To Win Some Sort Of A Free Bet
We all had a bit of fun with the picture games that made up our weekly blog competitions for the last fortnight or so. And by ‘we all’ I mean ‘I did’. Yes, it was especially head-wrecking and slightly random, but as I always try to justify to myself, I’m just trying to create a […]
Video: Yay A Fight!!!!
Just because he has a ponytail doesn’t mean he’s going to fight like a girl, well actually he does but that girl happens to be Katie Taylor. Here’s Mauro Camoranesi landing a tasty right-cross on Juan Pablo Rodriguez during a pre-season friendly between Lanus and All Boys. When things kick off watch as Rodriguez turns […]
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