BLOODY LONG ODDS…

Stumbled upon an interesting service today that provides all sorts of stats for would-be footie punters on English football. Actually, Stats On Sport provides statistics across more than just footie with Cricket, Golf, Grand Prix…all sorts of sports available. The idea behind the site is to give punters access to just about everything relating to individual matches, team stats, head-to-head stuff and pretty much anything that you could use to make a calculated bet.

Ignoring the fact that the bookie is always right and picking the favourite represents the best chance of winning, the “long shotters” should find this pretty useful I’d say. Just looking at the football stats and you get previews of upcoming games, match data, info on previous encounters between the teams like goals scored, form etc. Can’t see any mention of how many surgical supports Petr Cech has worn in the past season, but I guess (more…)

Borat might be pleased to see that BetFred are offering meagre odds of 10,000-1 on Kazakhstan lifting the 2010 World Cup! He’ll probably have his sister, wife and a donkey riding on it but whether it’s worth you joining him I’m not so sure. Early days yes, but with England at a paltry 10-1 (along with Germany) in the same book, and considering they still have to go through 3 managerial changes and qualifying in Outer Mongolia first, you’d probably be better off taking the Early Bird on England’s World Cup Nemesis, Sweden at 80-1 ’cos if one thing’s for sure (more…)