Results for tag: Twickenham
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Feb 9, 2011 at 08:59:21 AM
[b]Italy are improving with each Six Nations campaign and, following last year's close contest in Rome, Ralph Ellis wonders why the markets are offering such long odds on an Azzurri triumph at Twickenham.[/b]
When it comes to the Six Nations, we all expect Italy to be collecting the wooden spoon. Just to prove my point they are already installed as 1.47 favourites for the dubious honour. It's hardly surprising. It's where they have finished in all but three of the 12 seasons they've been in the competition. And in our minds they're still the new boys in a tournament that goes back, in one way shape or form, through 128 years of sporting history.
But there's a point when any set of boys start to become men. For instance it doesn't seem so long ago that the big cricketing nations were...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Feb 3, 2011 at 12:15:56 PM
[b]For once the Contrarian is supporting a favourite, albeit with a twist. Here's why he thinks England will win the Grand Slam this year in the Six Nations at 6.4...[/b]
[b]England head into the tournament with momentum[/b]
For the first time since 2006, England beat one of the Southern Hemisphere's big three in an autumn international with an emphatic 35-18 victory over Australia in November at Twickenham. Australia then humiliated Six Nations holders France 59-16 a fortnight later. Outsiders Scotland were the only other European side to enjoy a win over a top-three ranked country (21-17 over South Africa) a success that owed more to an inspired display by fly-half Dan Parks, who scored all the points with his feet, than a heroic team effort.
[b]Johnson has finally assembled ...