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Betfair Big Interview: Jody Craddock

Wolves are close to surviving in the Premier League despite last week’s late defeat at Arsenal. Betfair went to meet long-serving defender Jody Craddock to learn more. “I once sold a painting for two grand – the very first Championship one I did of all the Wolves players celebrating winning the play-offs in 2003. Sir Jack Hayward bought that.” Hi Jody, so how many more points do you need to secure Premier League survival? As many as we can get. Before the Arsenal game I said another six, but that was only guessing. In reality you can’t set targets, you win a game and then it seems the team below you win a game, so that’s why you just need to get as many as you can. Eight points from four games before the Emirates has set you up, though

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Apr 07, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Champions League Betting Preview: Barcelona v Arsenal

Some have argued that Barca’s failure to kill-off this tie in London gives the momentum to Arsenal but Dave Farrar disagrees and expect the defending champions to sweep aside the Gunners at the Nou Camp.

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Apr 05, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

The Over/Under 2.5 Goals Column: Rooney’s absence should see the goals dry up at Old Trafford

Ed Nicholson looks at the big match of the weekend as Chelsea visit Old Trafford and Wolves’ trip to the Emirates in search of over/under 2.5 goals value. “With United casting one eye on their second leg quarter final match against Bayern Munich next week, and without the influential Wayne Rooney I can see United being quite tight and compact here. Chelsea too will want to get a result – and a draw is not a bad one for them. So a low scoring draw is foreseen.” Man Utd v Chelsea This game now has a completely different feel to it following Chelsea’s impressive 7-1 success against Aston Villa last Saturday and, perhaps even more pertinently, Wayne Rooney’s injury in midweek. And for those who have been saying that Man United have only performed so well this season thanks to Rooney’s tremendous form, this Sunday’s game against Chelsea will either go some way to proving them right or wrong. Obviously one match will be far from conclusive on that score, but it does just happen to be against Chelsea at a time of the season when losing any game could prove decisive in deciding league titles or relegation battles

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Apr 02, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Premier League Betting: Easter Weekend’s 3pm Kick-offs

With seven (no so magnificent) fixtures to preview this weekend, “Mystical” Mike Norman has plenty of options as he searches for a fifth successive winning best bet. Best Bet: Back Blackburn at 2.2 to beat Portsmouth. Best Bet: Back Blackburn @ 2.2 to beat Portsmouth Also: Back Under 2.5 Goals @ 2.44 in Arsenal v Wolves; Back Over 3.5 Goals @ 4.0 in Bolton v Villa; Back Stoke @ 1.83 to beat Hull; Back Over 2.5 Goals @ 2.08 in Sunderland v Tottenham; Back Under 1.5 Goals @ 3.2 in Birmingham v Liverpool; Back 0-0 Correct Score @ 10.0 in Fulham v Wigan Arsenal 1.28 v Wolves 16.0 ; The Draw 6.4 As much as Arsenal should still win this game, I simply have to lay them at 1.29 given what’s happened to their squad in recent days. To lose William Gallas, Andrey Arshavin and Cesc Fabregas to injury after the Barcelona game is a huge blow to Arsene Wenger’s hopes of winning the title . Wolves have been in decent form of late and I don’t think they will be rolled-over at the Emirates today

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Apr 02, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Champions League Results: Two-goal comeback stuns Barca and their backers

Gunners show determination to deny Barcelona at The Emirates while Inter secure slim win “After a goalless – and breathless – first half, the Gunners’ hearts were broken just seconds into the last 45 minutes, as they fell behind to a two-goal ambush from Zlatan Ibrahimovic . At that point Barcelona were matched at 1.04 to win the game.” The odds are against Arsenal reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League but they sure won’t go down without a fight.

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Apr 01, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Champions League Betting: Arsenal v Barcelona

Tobias Gourlay sees something beautiful on the horizon as Barcelona travel to North London.

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Mar 30, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Premier League Betting: It’s a squad game now

This weekend showed that a good XI is just not enough in the Premier League these days “Arsenal are beginning to look thin, suddenly having to rely on Sol Campbell and Alex Song as their two centre backs in the 1-1 draw at Birmingham. Barcelona will be rubbing their hands at the thought of getting at that pair at The Emirates on Wednesday.” Back in 1981, Aston Villa won the League title using only 14 players . In reality, though, it was only 12

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Mar 29, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Champions League Quarter-Finals: Bad news, Arsenal – Zlatan’s found his form again

Ibrahimovic is back on the scoring trail for Barcelona and that’s ominous for Arsenal, says Ben Lyttleton “Much of the focus this week will be on how Arsenal stops Messi, but the danger is that they double up on the Argentine and allow crosses for Zlatan to take advantage.” Teams in Champions League action historically drop points on the weekend before big European games, often because they rest their most important players, and so it proved in the cases of Bayern Munich , Arsenal and Internazionale this week. Bordeaux also lost their French League Cup final to Marseille, after coach Laurent Blanc prioritised the European tie against Lyon

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Mar 29, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Premier League Betting: Saturday’s 3pm Kick-offs

Chelsea and Arsenal can keep the race for the title exciting by winning this weekend, says “Mystical” Mike Norman.

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Mar 26, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

The Over/Under 2.5 Goals Column: Buck the market at Anfield and Eastlands

Ed Nicholson rummages through the stats to bring recommended bets for two matches involving Champions League chasers “Games between City and Wigan at Eastlands generally bring with them little goal line action and ultimately few goals. The past six meetings between these two in Manchester have seen four under 1.5 goal encounters with a 0-1, 1-0, 0-0 and 1-0.” Liverpool v Sunderland There is a country mile between Liverpool at home and Liverpool away. The Reds are a very decent free scoring side at home, as their results have proven over the years. Throughout this season they have scored 37 home goals in the Premier League – the fourth highest in the league, while they have conceded just 13 times – the fifth best defensive record of any team playing in front of their own fans this term. Steven Gerrard might not be in the best form of his life (there are rumours he needs an operation), but Fernando Torres has looked very sharp of late and it would be a surprise if he was not to beat the keeper at least once here after scoring three goals in his last four games. Fourteen of Liverpool’s 15 Premier League games at Anfield have either been 2-0 victories or contests where three goals or more have been scored

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Mar 25, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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