Carling Cup Odds

Carling Cup Winners

The Football League Cup, currently known, for sponsorship reasons, as the Carling Cup, is a knockout competition, open to the 92 teams comprising the Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two. The Carling Cup winners qualify for the UEFA Cup (being renamed the UEFA Europa League for 2009) assuming they have not achieved European qualification by some other means. For example, if the Carling Cup winners have already qualified for the UEFA Champions’ League, the UEFA Cup place is give to the highest-placed, non-European qualifier in the Premiership. Nine out of last ten finals have been won by Premier League sides, justifying their Carling Cup odds, the only exception being Leicester City’s 2-1 triumph over Tranmere in 2000. In the same period, the top clubs…

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Andorra v England Betting

England v Andorra

England start their dream to win the World Cup in 2010, with their first qualifying match against Andorra on Saturday 6th September. Never before have they had such an upward battle to get the players ready, and their fans behind them, as expectations run low for their success. As in all football matches though, they need to concentrate there campaign on each match as it comes, and for them, the kick off is at 7pm.

To look at the bookies, the match is a foregone conclusion, with England overwhelming favourites to win, however with their performance of late, you may be asking yourself if a draw or a win for Andorra might be on the cards, The England bet is pretty much written off, with…

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Bet on England Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland Football tonight

England Scotland Wales and Nothern Ireland Play Football Tonight

All of our home nations are playing in international friendly football matches this evening which will provide for an interesting insight into the teams readiness for the World Cup qualifiers later this year.

England v Czech Republic

This will be John Terry’s first match as the newly appointed England Captain, and boy will he have alot to prove. Well maybe not as much as Fabio Cappello, but hey it’s him we’ll be watching tonight. So will he score a goal for England tonight? Paddy power are only offering 11/1 that he will, so not holding out much hope, but do have 21/10 joint favourites for Defoe or Rooney to score a goal tonight. As far as how England…

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Wales v Georgia Betting

WALES v GEORGIA BETTING – 20th AUGUST

Wales’ friendly against Georgia will go ahead as planned at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea, on 20th August, after travel difficulties involving visas were resolved. The Georgians had problems getting their documents because the British Embassy in Tbilisi was closed, due to the recent hostilities with Russia. However, the British Embassy in Azerbaijan was able to process the applications and the Georgians travel to Wales as planned. pullquote Wales are 8/13 favourites with Skybet endpullquote, with the 1-0 home win priced at 11/2 with the same firm.

Leading Players / Team News

‘Keeper Lewis Price is unavailable due to a cartilage operation, so young Chelsea goalkeeper Rhys Taylor has received his first call-up for the Senior Wales squad. He has been…

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Will England Qualify for the 2010 World Cup

WILL ENGLAND QUALIFY FOR THE 2010 WORLD CUP
Bet365 have England at 1/4 to qualify and 11/4 to fail.
The Football Association has set England coach Fabio Capello the target of reaching at least the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup or Euro 2012. It is one of a series of ambitious aims set out by the FA in a wide-ranging review. The governing body also plans to appoint an international performance director and has given the go-ahead to the National Football Centre. The review, believed to be the most extensive ever carried out by the FA, was ordered following England’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008.

Fabio Capello has only been at the helm for a short period, but the FA document “Vision 2008-2012″ makes it…

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World Cup Betting – bet on the 2010 World Cup

WORLD CUP BETTING – BET ON THE 2010 WORLD CUP

For betting purposes, it seems safe to rule out Africa, Asia and Oceania as suppliers of the 2010 World Cup winners, along with hosts South Africa. This leaves South America and Europe upon which to concentrate. Four teams from ten qualify from the CONMEBOL (South America), with the fifth-placed side involved in a playoff with a CONCACAF (Caribbean, Central and North American Confederation) nation. The nine European group winners qualify automatically, with the best eight runners-up involved in two-legged playoffs to determine the other four qualifiers, i.e. 13 in all.

South America

One third (6 out of 18) of the qualifying matches in the have already been played in South America. Paraguay surprisingly tops the group with 13…

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Coca-Cola League Two Preview 2008/09

FOOTBALL – LEAGUE TWO 2008-09 SEASON PREVIEW
League Two looks to be the most open division of all, with bookmakers going 9/1 the field and nine teams at 12/1 or less to win the title. A new-look Darlington, at 10/1, heads the shortlist, with last season’s 5th placed Rochdale a close second at 12/1 and Wycombe not that far behind, at the same price. The title shortlist is completed by relegated Port Vale, at 14/1 and Lincoln at a speculative 25/1.

The battle for promotion places looks equally competitive, with seven teams priced at 3/1 or less to be playing League One football next season. Aldershot Town made a nonsense of the Blue Square Premier last season and are fancied to be leading promotion contenders, at least (11/2 for…

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Coca-Cola League One Preview 2008/09

FOOTBALL – LEAGUE ONE 2008-09 SEASON PREVIEW
Coca-Cola League One seems another fairly open contest, though there is one outstanding side in the race for the title. Leeds United, having started the 2007-08 season on -15 points by virtue of being in administration. However, Leeds won 27 of their 46 games, with 10 draws and only 9 losses, finishing 5th. Starting on equal terms, they will be considered certainties by many and SkyBet’s 7/2 to win the League and Evens about promotion both look tempting. However, a word of warning – your correspondent has been a fan for close to 40 years and Leeds’ ability to surprise comes as no great shock, ranging from last year’s “nearly promotion” season from an “impossible” position, to the 1-0 loss to Bob Stokoe’s…

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