BLOODY LONG ODDS…

Came across this “Penalty Shoot Out” footy game from BetFred just now and thought “what the hell”. It’s just a bit of fun and you can play for free or try it for cash if your right foot is feeling lucky!

Basically it’s a flash game where you choose a bet size, select an area of the goal to aim at, click “KICK” and the penalty taker runs up and smacks the ball towards your chosen area. If you’re lucky, the goalkeeper has been using the Grobelaar training video and you’re quids in. If you’re unlucky, you’ll find its Petr Cech in disguise and your money’s worth about as much as Andriy Shevchenko after a season at Chelski.

Click here to launch the Penalty Shoot Out popup game.

» visit: BetFred

For the UK punter looking to place a bet online, there is obviously a big choice in this day and age with all of the big highstreet bookmakers and some lesser-known Internet-only bookies gathering like vultures to capture the new breed of high-tech armchair punter. Not that the Internet could be termed high-tech anymore I guess, but hey, you know where I am coming from!

One of the neat aspects about the highstreet chains is that a punter can bet online and either cashout via a card (or eWallet if you’re really tech savvy!) or they can nip into the local bookie and access their online cash from there which is pretty neat. In fact it goes a step further with bookmakers like Ladbrokes in that you can also play online poker with them or play a bit of blackjack, roulette or some fruities (more…)

The new fixture lists for the 2007/2008 season for the Premiership and the lower leagues were released at 10am on Thursday 14th June 2007. Please visit the BBC Team By Team guide for fixtures (see note below).

Unfortunately I was served with the following email after posting the fixtures here which means I can no longer provide them. There you go.

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We wish to make you aware that we have a good faith belief that your present use is an infringement of the Leagues’ legal rights and that all such unauthorised use must cease immediately. Please confirm by return your agreement to this and give your undertaking to cease all such infringements on any and all of your web sites. Pending your response the Leagues’ rights are fully reserved.

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Ok, here’s an interesting slant on betting for the 2007/2008 Barclays UK Premiership. As it’s pretty bloody obvious one of the “Big 4″ (yawn!) will win it, or buy it depending on your view, Blue Square (part of the Rank Interactive Group if you didn’t already know) are offering odds on the also-rans in the Premiership without Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester Utd and Liverpool getting in the way, for those who want to pretend the other 4 all ran off to a European Super League.

So finally, Spurs fans can dream of winning the title, although they will get a fairly harsh 11/8 odds on that, and of course will have to endure the childish sniggering and pointing from the Red half on North London. Up norf, the blue side of Merseyside (”we’re NOT a small team”) might feel that 7/1 is actually a half-decent bet although (more…)

OK, I don’t normally do horsies but not only was it was great to see Frankie Dettori cruising home on the 5/4 favourite “Authorized” in the Derby at Epsom just now but to see the BBC making a bit of a cock-up, or more aptly, cock-down, of the coverage was the icing on the cake! Watershed? What Watershed?

Frankie had been waiting for this - everyone wanted him to notch it up at the 15th attempt - and he duly obliged with a clear victory of several lengths over his nearest rival. To add to the glee, this is really going to shake up the bookies and (more…)