BBC pundit Mark Lawrenson reckons Thierry Henry won't find the net in another competitive game for Arsenal before he jets back to America. The ex-Liverpool defender is refusing to join the Henry love-in and says he would be happy to wager that Henry's days of scoring in the Premier League are over. In his BBC [.

Manchester City Football Club has announced that it has teamed up with leading bookmaker Paddy Power as its official UK Betting Partner.

First bet of the week covers Saturday's Premier League action. With the top two squaring off on Monday night, the relegation battle takes centre stage, but forgive us if we don't see Wolves suddenly playing with verve and freedom now their failure has been confirmed. Their manager is shite, you see, and some of the [.

United are a top priced 1.75 with Paddy Power to bounce back from their humiliating defeat at the hands of Blackburn and beat Newcastle at St James' tonight, and everything suggest they will do just that.

New Year's Eve turned into a 70th birthday nightmare for Sir Alex when Steve Kean's men pulled off the unthinkable, but if the past is anything to go by he will have read the riot act to the players and they will respond with a victory.

Ahhh, the relief of the FA Cup, where you forget how sh*te your club is in the league for one day, only to remember just how p*ss poor they are come 5pm on Saturday when they no longer have the pleasure of Peter Beardsley drawing their ball out of the bag (the least sexiest image [...]

United are 3.5 shots to gain their revenge on City in this weekend's derby clash at the Etihad and claim a place in the fourth fourth round of the FA Cup. Sir Alex Ferguson's side will be keen to banish the memory of their meeting in the league earlier in the season at Old Trafford which saw City register a 6-1 victory.

First column of the new year last week, and we managed to purloin £136 from our £50 stake, leaving us with a profit of £86. With a degree of trepidation I decided to state my profit and loss and the bottom of the column each week, something that will come back to haunt me more [...]

Click Here to get a free £50 Bet with Paddy Power Liverpool v Stoke According to reports, Liverpool are desperate to offload Andy Carroll this January. Unfortunately, there's no great demand for Noel Fielding look-a-likes so they may be stuck with the Geordie. Add into the mix the drawn out Luis Suarez racism row and [.

Click Here to get a free £50 Bet with Paddy Power Liverpool v Stoke According to reports, Liverpool are desperate to offload Andy Carroll this January. Unfortunately, there's no great demand for Noel Fielding look-a-likes so they may be stuck with the Geordie. Add into the mix the drawn out Luis Suarez racism row and [.

Following their terrific performance to knock City out of the FA Cup it's back to Premier League business this weekend for United who are a top priced 1.16 to beat Bolton at Old Trafford and keep the pressure on Mancini's men. The performance put in by Wayne Rooney and Co to beat City 3-2 at the Eithad would have delighted Sir Alex, as they looked sharp and threatening and a different side to the one that got hammered 3-0 at St James'.

£50 staked again last week but only £20 returned as Falkirk's inability to break the deadlock against Ayr cost me £91 in the seven-fold accumulator. However, that still leaves the profit at £36 for the year to date. It's unusual that my first bet is a single, as I generally try and be a little [.

United to travel to the Emirates this weekend to take on Arsenal, and they look a big price at 2.62 to beat the Wenger boys. The Gunners were thrashed 8-2 earlier in the season at Old Trafford, and although they have improved since then I can't see why they are virtually the same price as United in the betting to gain their revenge.

Click Here to get a Free £50 with Paddy Power Norwich v Chelsea The Canaries have been this season's Blackpool, impressing with their battling spirit and attacking style in the first half of the season. The big difference being that Norwich are actually good. There's a whole lot more substance and depth to Paul Lambert's [.

So then, this is what heartache feels like. This is what it means to have the figurative broken heart. I have decided I don't like this feeling, at all. And I want it to go away.

Needlessto say, many hard-core Arsenal fans like myself are in agony at this moment in time. The team that we love so desperately appears to be dead.

Just like in my life itself, after a promising start that indicated I would push on and improve my standing, after four weeks of the New Year I am back exactly where I started. West Ham failed to beat Forest as comfortably as suspected and PSV should be chastised for their inability to beat inferior [.

Just like in my life itself, after a promising start that indicated I would push on and improve my standing, after four weeks of the New Year I am back exactly where I started. West Ham failed to beat Forest as comfortably as suspected and PSV should be chastised for their inability to beat inferior [.

United have a whole host injuries going into their fourth round FA Cup game at Anfield against arch rivals Liverpool, and bookmakers are keen to take them as a result.

They are 2.88 shots with bet365 and without the injury worries that would look a massive price given that they knocked out Man City in the last round and come into this on the back of a win over Arsenall at the Emirates.

Okay, you can all relax now. Turns out that our hero, Arsenal captain Robin van Persie, will NOT be sanctioned for allegedly throwing an elbow in the face of defender Carlos Cuéllar, after all. Had the Football Association chosen to sanction him, and there certainly seemed to be justification for doing so, the punishment to both Robin as an individual and Arsenal as a cohesive whole would have been severe enough, considering the awful timing, to virtually end the team's season on quite a sour note.

Okay, you can all relax now. Turns out that our hero, Arsenal captain Robin van Persie, will NOT be sanctioned for allegedly throwing an elbow in the face of defender Carlos Cuéllar, after all. Had the Football Association chosen to sanction him, and there certainly seemed to be justification for doing so, the punishment to both Robin as an individual and Arsenal as a cohesive whole would have been severe enough, considering the awful timing, to virtually end the team's season on quite a sour note.

Being forced to sell his captain during the January and consequently losing matches heavily did for Simon Grayson. While OTP feels slightly sorry for the recently sacked Grayson, we won't be dwelling on his departure for too long because there are some exciting prospects in contention to be the new boss at Elland [.

Harry Redknapp's high-flying Tottenham travel to Anfield on Monday 6th February to take on Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool and bet365 have got a fantastic free bet offer to add to the excitement. Place a pre-match bet on the game and bet365 will give you a free In-Play bet to the same stake.
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People talk about the magic of the FA Cup, but don't tell that to me or Hull fans who staked emotion or cold, hard cash on their team winning last Saturday. I knew I shouldn't have trusted Matt ‘Tubbsy' Tubbs after he snuck an equaliser for Salisbury City against Forest a few years back. Still, [..

Stamford Bridge hasn't been a pay hunting ground in the league for United in recent years, but they look overpriced at 2.9 with Betfred to beat their arch rivals Chelsea and bag a vital three points to maintain their title challenge.

Having played Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool in quick succession, and with Liverpool coming up again, United are now at a crucial stage of their season having hauled themselves level on points with Roberto Mancini's men at the top of the Premiership.

Click Here to Get a Free £50 Bet for All New Paddy Power Customers Chelsea v Man United On the face of it, Chelsea reaching for Bolton's best defender to help shore up their own leaky backline looks a bit odd. It'd be like the Belgians asking France to protect them from a German invasion [...]

Ok, ok it's not going that well, although we did receive £10 back on our £30 stake last week after the lower league football programme was decimated by the snow. Still, with QPR refusing to do the business at home to Wolves all was lost. This weekend will hopefully see far more football on, and [..

Football, or soccer, is one of the most popular sports in the world, so naturally football betting would be one of the most popular forms of sports betting around. Betting on various aspects of a football game adds an extra dimension of suspense to the game, since you have a very real stake in the outcome, win, lose or draw.

It will be a hostile atmosphere when United take on arch rivals Liverpool this weekend, and Sir Alex's side are slightly odds-on at 1.91 with Paddy Power to come out on top in what promises to be a real hard fought battle.

The game sees Patrice Evra come face to face with Luis Suarez for the first time since the Liverpool striker was banned for eight games after racially abusing the United defender and the role of referee Phil Dowd will be crucial.

Given that the ‘Magic of the FA Cup' has returned this week, this week's column will be sponsored by the use of clichés. So with Chelsea facing Birmingham at Stamford Bridge, manager AVB is really feeling the pressure, but if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Chelsea have lost just 1 [.

Click Here to Get a Free £50 Bet for All New Paddy Power Customers Chelsea v Bolton The thought that Roman Abramovich would support a three-year plan which endangered Chelsea's place in the Champions League seems unlikely. As does the belief that Andre Villas-Boas' job isnt under serious threat. It is, and anything other than [.

Wayne Rooney is still doubtful for Man United trip to Carrow road this weekend, but they still look a solid bet at 1.57 with Paddy Power to beat Norwich.

with or without Wazza, United have a formidable record on the road and have lost just once in their last 13 away games.

They have won 8 of those, and despite not being at their best in midweek against Ajax have made it through to the last 16 of the Europa League and can now firmly concentrate on the job in hand.

Last time out George got only 1 result right and 1 perfect score.
Saturday 25 February 2012
Chelsea 1 Bolton Wanderers 0
Newcastle United 3 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1
Queens Park Rangers 1 Fulham 1
West Bromwich Albion 0 Sunderland 1
Wigan Athletic 0 Aston Villa 0
Manchester City 2 Blackburn Rovers 0
Sunday 26 Febuary 2012
Arsenal 2 v Tottenham Hotspur 2
Norwich City 1 Manchester United 2
Stoke City 2 Swansea City 1
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United have a terrific record against Spurs and look good value at 2.5 with Betfred and Paddy Power to bag a vital three points at White Hart Lane on Sunday.

The home side have won none of their last 21 Premier League games against the Red devils (D5 L16) and have also failed to find the back of the net in 13 of their last 20 meetings in the league.

The column has a distinctly domestic feel this week, with all our bets focussing on the English and Scottish leagues. I also return to the Championship for a treble. I know it does me (and my wallet) harm, but like a junkie warming up another piece of tin foil, I can't get away from my [...]

Click Here to Get a Free £50 Bet for All New Paddy Power Tottenham v Man United Thanks to the Old Trafford medical staff finding a miracle cure to Wayne Rooney's case of "I'm not risking getting injured in a meaningless midweek friendly at this point in the domestic season", the United striker is certain to [.

A lovely week of betting last week. I gave you £70 worth of tips and it returned £137. It would have been £254 but for Birmingham chucking away a two goal lead against Derby at home, but you can't be greedy I guess, and Michael Chopra certainly did the job, with him opening the scoring [...]

United are 1.25 shots to beat West Brom at Old Trafford this weekend and it really should be a case of how many they put past the Baggies. They have won nine and lost none of the 11 Premier League meetings with Roy Hodgson's side, who to be fair come into this on the back of a good run of results and have lost just one of their last seven games on the road.

Click Here for a Free £50 Bet for All New Paddy Power Customers Chelsea v Stoke Well, at least Andre Villas-Boas can watch a Chelsea game without the fear of being sacked this weekend. He probably won't though. The question will then be whether the Chelsea players can rally around Roberto Di Matteo to get [.

Welcome back, my friends, and if you can still afford anything after a few days of Cheltenham Festival gambling, then why not get on board with some football bets for the weekend? Or alternatively, if you lost nearly all your money at Cheltenham, then you should definitely use what little you have left on the [.

United travel to Molineux to take on woeful Wolves on Sunday and look bankers at 1.36 with Betfred and Paddy Power to come away with another valuable three points.

Sir Alex's side were not at their best when getting knocked out of the Europa League in midweek, but you can't help but feel that competition was a distraction for them.

Not a great weekend last time out, adding to my Cheltenham woes, but Manchester United crucifying Wolves provided a decent return on our Asian Handicap bet. In truth, at half-time it looked like you could bet on United winning by more than ten goals an still hope to win your cash. This week we're back [.