Ok so we all know the Torres situation. I have been writing on here for weeks now about Torres and his future..It has culminated in today my earlier post about the bets on Torres coming to Chelsea being suspended by one bookmaker and Abramovich making big waves in the transfer market.
Since then Roy Hodgson spoke to press today and mentioned Fernando Torres.

Qatar might not be the bookmaker's favourite to win the right to host the 2022 World Cup from FIFA, but you can't say they don't have some interesting stadium designs:

London's Telegraph wrote about the key figures behind the bid a couple of months ago:

In a part of the world that is not exactly renowned for good news, the bold bid by the Gulf state of Qatar to stage soccer's World Cup in 2022 has the potential to transform the region's image throughout the world.

Sponsored post Not all sports betters are brilliant mathematicians, so in this article we intend to look at some of the very basic mathematics of sports betting. The first thing we will look at is the probability of winning. If a bookmaker is offering 2/1, then for every £100 that is bet the punter will [.

Football betting is a massive industry, with millions of pounds, euros, etc changing hands each season. There are all kinds of punters, from the obsessive fan to the statistics nerd to the seasoned gambler, and the bookmaking companies are always on the lookout for new customers. One method that many of the bookmakers have used to bring in new business is 'free bets'.

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The 2010 Football World Cup is likely to be one of the biggest sports betting events in history. The explosive growth of the online sports betting sector will give millions of football fans around the world the opportunity to capitalize on their love and knowledge of the beautiful game in the World Cup betting markets during the tournament.

Bookmaker Fred Done has revealed himself to be one of the "Red Knights" aiming to takeover Manchester United.

Fred, a lifelong United fan, is the first of an alleged 50 investors keen to take the football club away from the Glazer family, who have burdened the club with huge debts.

He was approached by fixer Keith Harris.

The World Cup – a gambler's guide... is a post from: Just Football

Market analysts predict that over one billion pounds will be wagered on this summer's World Cup in Britain alone, making it the biggest single sporting event in gambling history.

The bookies traditionally offer a huge variety of bets, from the simple outright winner market to the old favourite of the colour of David Beckham's hair.

New York Daily News Bet of £37000 on Wayne Rooney by Haverfordwest punter BBC News A bookmaker says a Welsh punter stands to win £440000 if England's Wayne Rooney finishes top World Cup scorer. Coral said a regular at one of its shops in ... England star Wayne Rooney , US midfielder Michael Bradley must watch language .

Transfer rumours get thrown around day after day during the summer; and the latest one to come out is Joe Cole to Liverpool (according to one bookmaker anyway). We've seen 'Arry Redknapp saying he wants to sign the former Chelsea midfielder who is available on a free transfer: "I signed Joe as an 11-year-old at West [.

Who wouldn't love making a lot of money betting on football matches with zero risk? You may not think it's possible, but there are plenty of people out there that will prove you wrong. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of betting websites that claim they have great free bets and matched betting.

The Red Knights involved with Manchester United supporters' efforts to take the club out of the clutches of the Glazers have been the subject of considerable speculation. In recent weeks, one above all has become more closely tied to the Manchester United Supporters' Trust (MUST) campaign, though I've seen nothing written about this development in the mainstream media: Fred Done, founder of BetFred, Britain's fourth largest bookmaker, is increasingly tied to the campaign to remove the Glazers.

Sponsored post Not all sports betters are brilliant mathematicians, so in this article we intend to look at some of the very basic mathematics of sports betting. The first thing we will look at is the probability of winning. If a bookmaker is offering 2/1, then for every £100 that is bet the punter will [.

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Sponsored post Find them (at Freebets for instance), select them and use them. Free bets are the singly best way to make sure that you do better then the bookie. You have no doubt heard people say that it is the bookmaker who always wins. That is, in fact, a myth. Quite often the bookie [...]

There's always a lot of storytelling and a lot of controversy surrounding sports betting systems. Obviously there are tons of myths about such systems as well. They're a bit like winning casino systems: people kind of know that they can't possibly work the way he some folks say they do, yet they cling to the belief that somebody out there probably much smarter than them, may have thought of something that could beat the house in casino gambling and turn the bookmaker's juice against him in sports betting.