Things have got a bit old school for this week’s blog competition. There are no maps, cryptic visual riddles or headlines that needs your touch of comedy genius. In another attempt to create a competition that can’t be ruined by Wikipedia or Google, I took a photo of my penny jar last night. If I […]
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We have a lot of bad Spanish and one winner
Well hello there. I haven’t seen you for a while. Yes, it’s that time of the week when I put some people out of their misery and put other people who weren’t in any misery, into some misery. I got absolutely loads of correct answers to last week’s competition, but before all that however, I’d […]
Money back if Wayne Rooney scores in the Manchester Derby
There’s just days to go until the most crucial Manchester Derby possibly ever. That still plenty of time for mind games and some brilliant tittle-tattle. Thankfully, we have haven’t wasted our time setting off fireworks and we’ve already announced our Money-Back Special for the game. And it’s an absolute peach, if we do say so […]
Punchestown Festival Preview Day 1
Like Cheltenham, but with a lot less John McCririck. What better incentive is there to watch Punchestown? The festival plays host to some of the biggest names in jumps racing and some emerging talent who impressed us at Cheltenham. The Champion Chase receives top billing on Day 1, but arguably more interesting will be the […]
Ruby Walsh: ‘Don’t worry about Mullins’ form for Punchestown’
There’s a big and most likely very muddy week of racing ahead of us at the Punchestown Festival. The Paddy Power Blog caught up with Ruby Walsh ahead of an important week for a number of the big names in the Willie Mullins yard. Paddy Power Blog: What rides are you looking forward to for […]
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 […]
Vettel in the driving seat for the Bahrain Grand Prix betting
It’s been an interesting week for the Formula 1 circus. The Bahrain Grand Prix – or as Bernie Ecclestone likes to call it – the ‘Who wouldn’t love to live here with all the sunshine and just the right amount of oppression?’ Grand Prix has been a major talking point, but rarely because of the […]
Champions League: Chelsea capable of upsetting Barcelona
Chelsea’s capacity to hold a grudge over the long term and not let things go is one of the main reasons Frank Lampard thinks they can cause one of the big upsets in Champions League history when they take on Barcelona tonight. He didn’t actually put it in those terms, but reading between the lines […]
Win a free bet on this week’s football and geography test
Last week’s blog competition was slightly different from the other competitions mainly because(a) it only ran for one day and (b) it was more than one competition. Yes, as part of our extensive and entertaining Grand National coverage* we wheeled out Cartoon Vampire for a couple of rounds worth of Katchphrase. As per his contract, […]
Champions League: Bayern Munich v Real Madrid – a special kind of rivalry
It’s going to be attritional, nerve-shredding and laced with an abundance of caustic comments. You get the impression Jose Mourinho wouldn’t want it any other way. The Special One goes in to an eight-day period that is punctuated by three games that could define Real Madrid’s season and (if shameless tittle-tattle about his departure over the […]
Grand National Result: What happened to my horse?
It was one of the most dramatic Grand Nationals in the long history of the world’s most famous Steeplechase, but in the middle of all the excitement, you may have lost track of what happened to your horse. Here’s the run-down of how all 40 runners fared. The finishers 1st Neptune Collognes 33/1 2nd Sunnyhillboy […]
Six Grand National goodies you might have missed
Power Tower has been a busy place for the last couple of weeks and just in case you missed one of the many things we’ve had going on lately, here’s a quick round-up of what’s been happening. #1 We took Ruby Walsh into the darkest and coincidentally, best lit from a filming point of view, […]
Grand National: a look at the stories behind the racecard
There always seems to be a multitude of interesting backstories behind some of the runners going for Grand National glories. If you fancy knowing a bit more about some of the horses or you’re just looking for a random link to help you pick your National horse, here’s a look at some of the more […]
Grand National News – 13th April
Taaffe sweet on his runner It’s just over 24 hours until they go thundering over the Melling Road towards the first fence in the Grand National and it’s time for a lot of trainers to express some probably misguided confidence about their chances of winning. First up is Tom Taaffe, trainer of Treacle and son […]
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