Results for tag: football betting
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Betting.Betfair
on Nov 9, 2010 at 10:13:11 PM
December 2, deadline day approaches. The decision on whether football is 'coming home again' looms. England have slipped from their position as favourites - you can back them at 2.2 to stage the [b]2018 World Cup[/b]. The Shrewdies - perhaps influenced by the Betfair Contrarian (insert link) - have switched to the perception that Russia are home and hosed. A miniscule 2.0 now on the finals being played out in the 'giant continent' that is the old Soviet Union. Ambramovich-style billionaires - led by spokesman Viacheslav Koloskov - have seemingly been successful in painting England's bid as 'primitive and comical'.
I'm instantly reminded of [b]Michael Palin's[/b] classic Ripping Yarn - Golden Gordon -which paints the extreme portrait of an English Alpha male whose life is totally centred...
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Betting.Betfair
on Nov 7, 2010 at 09:39:05 PM
If the tabloids are to be believed, and God help us if they are (Arsène Wenger doing what? I don't believe it), there is mutiny in the air at [b]Manchester City[/b]. Roberto Mancini, not 11 months into the job, is a week away from getting the sack if results at Eastlands don't change as dramatically as Wayne Rooney's opinion of Manchester United's "ambition".
In many ways [b]Mancini[/b] has created a rod for his own back. There is nothing wrong with casting yourself as a no-nonsense, single-minded authority figure. In the cut-throat world of top-flight football you are only as good as your next game and it is the manager alone who takes the rap for results. Indeed, in the era of the celebrity footballer it is quite refreshing to see managers putting pampered players in their place by...
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Betting.Betfair
on Nov 4, 2010 at 05:17:33 PM
For [b]Dynamo Kyiv[/b], this has been a very odd year. At the halfway point of the Ukrainian season they trail Shakhtar Donetsk by five points [Shakhtar are 1.1 to win the title, and while they probably will win it, that is surely too short]. Dynamo lost their manager, Valeri Gazzaev, who protested that he was trying to build a team for three years time and never seemed to have the faith of Ihor Surkis, the club president. They went out of the Champions League in the qualifying round to Ajax. They drew at home to BATE Borisov and then lost to Sherriff in their first two games in the Europa League group stage.
There was talk of traumatic times, of the need for a new direction, as there was two years ago before the appointment of [b]Yuri Semin[/b] as coach. And yet, almost despite themselves,...