Real Salt Lake v. L.A. Galaxy.
I hear the MLS commish is going to be in town. He's gonna do an insider chat with a local newspaper and participate in the march to the match with the Sounders FC fans.
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Sponsored post After a short break (we were waiting for Alan Wiley to get his breath back), www.FootieGamble.com is back for its second competition of the 2009-10 season. For the next eight weeks, all users can place bets on Premier League results without risking the mortgage or the wrath of the missus. Click to continue reading...

Sponsored post After a short break (we were waiting for Alan Wiley to get his breath back), www.FootieGamble.com is back for its second competition of the 2009-10 season. For the next eight weeks, all users can place bets on Premier League results without risking the mortgage or the wrath of the missus. Click to continue reading...

After a very long and hard work, we are proud to announce that the new version of SL Predictor is up and running, offering a new experience for our members.

For the past couple of football season we tried to make all necessary adjustments to make SL Predictor a fun Virtual Betting Site combining the fun elements of football betting with the competitive elements of not only beating the bookie – but also proving your wits and superiority over the rest of SL Predictor members.

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AZ Alkmaar v Arsenal
Tuesday 20th October 2009
DS Stadium - Alkmaar
UEFA Champions League
Kick-off: 19:45 UK (20:45 CET)

Champions vs 4th placed team games are rarely this mismatched - the Dutch champions go into this game as underdogs despite playing at home (courtesy of a poor start to the season) while England's fourth-best team have punters and pundits salivating over another potential European master-class from Wenger's men.

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Ukraine 1-0 England
Saturday 10 October 2009,
Dnipro Arena, Ukraine
Kick-Off: 17:15 BST

England were reduced to 10 men early in the first half thanks to Rob Green being sent off and although Shevchenko missed the resulting penalty, Ukraine scored soon afterwards and England never really got back into the game.

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Fabio Capello is expected to field a full strength side against Ukraine giving spread bettors and armchair fans – not to mention Croatia manager Slaven Bilic – the hope of seeing a competitive game in England's penultimate World Cup Qualifier.

Although effectively a dead-rubber for the visitors the partisan home following will ensure a lively encounter at the 31,000-capacity Dnipro Arena, in the country's third-largest city, Dnipropetrovsk.

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Chelsea welcome Liverpool to Stamford Bridge on Sunday. Chelsea will be hoping to bounce back from a shock defeat to Wigan last week while Liverpool will aim to continue their rich goalscoring form in recent games. It promises to be a cracker of a game, and you can watch Chelsea take on Liverpool live here.

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It's the Manchester derby between United and City on Sunday and we've got two pairs of tickets to give away, courtesy of Betfair.

Betfair recently became the official betting partner of Manchester United and now we've teamed up with the world's leading betting exchange, to give you a chance of attending the big match.

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It's the Manchester derby between United and City on Sunday and we've got two pairs of tickets to give away, courtesy of Betfair.

Betfair recently became the official betting partner of Manchester United and now we've teamed up with the world's leading betting exchange, to give you a chance of attending the big match.

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After an international induced Premier League hiatus, England's top tier returns with some standout games for spread punters to look forward to, featuring mouth-watering ties between North London and Manchester's finest.

As Tottenham Hotspur host Manchester United and Arsenal make the opposite journey to face Manchester City at Eastlands, one side from each game goes into the weekend with a 100% winning start – but probably not the two teams that most spread bettors would have anticipated.

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Premier League Fixtures & Results We've teamed up with our friends at Footbo to bring you this fantastic Premier League prediction game. If you're looking for something a bit more straight-laced than our Fantasy Football FAIL, this could be just the thing for you. All you have to do is sign-up, predict the Premier League results and [. Click to continue reading...

As a retired top-tier footballer, Bruce Grobbelaar deserves better having to jump out of refrigerators and wobble for effect. Granted that he's had a tougher time than most and I'm sure he's being paid handsomely for this, but surely even Paddy Power can do more dignified ads while still making their 'money back' offers look good?

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The year-round nature of football and the assortment of betting options available makes it a non-stop thrilling exercise that should not be missed. But many sports punters are intimidated by the many different teams, soccer leagues and competitions available. They simply do not know where or how to start. Click to continue reading...

The guys over at 888 are covering all the latest sports and online gaming events. And they are currently putting a bit of focus on the Down Under market: the home of Tim Cahill, Mark Viduka and, erm, Mark Bosnich. 888's sports betting Australia section features many sports options, including football. Click to continue reading...

There isn't much in football that can be as exciting or as unpredictable as play-off final weekend. After a long season full of hard work, it all comes down to one game at Wembley to see who is going to win promotion from League Two, League One and the Championship. No matter what happens, there will [. Click to continue reading...

The phrase ‘there are lies, damned lies, and statistics, popularized by Mark Twain the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is often used when governments try to reinforce weak arguments with statistics. Not so when it comes to soccer betting.

A guide to football betting describes how you can use vital statistics to predict the outcome of football matches so that you win more than you lose.

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We've come to that point in the Premier League campaign where teams go one of two ways: they either learn to rise above the the rest and make an indelible mark at the end of the season, or they end up falling into a pit of despair and never coming back.

Which road will your team take this weekend?

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OTP's fortnightly betting column This is possibly one of the most exciting times for football betting. Not only is every single game significant as the Premier League season draws to close, but the Football League play-offs are under way as well. A cheeky fiver on who is going to come up from League Two? Click to continue reading...

You have to feel for Alan Shearer going into this weekend's match. After coming in on a white horse with every intention of saving Newcastle's Premier League lives, the former legend has done nothing to quell the fears of the Toon Army over the last couple of weeks. It's now or never for one of the most storied clubs in English football.

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Off The Post's betting column There are plenty of Premier League matches on this weekend and we all know what that means – football betting time! There aren't many games left and there isn't any competitive football this summer, so unless you want to wait until August you better get your money on some fixtures this [. Click to continue reading...

Wow, well that was an interesting weekend of football! Aside from the FA Cup snoozer...I mean shocker in the FA Cup between Manchester United and Everton, things were fairly quiet.

The six Premier League matches prior to Manchester City/West Brom yielded a whopping FIVE goals total. For a league that prides itself in being the best in the world, Saturday and Sunday looked more like a battle between teams in Ligue 1 than a typical Premier League weekend.

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The FA have charged five league footballers, for breaching betting rules.

The five players concerned are Jay Harris, David Mannix, Robert Williams and Peter Cavanagh, who were at Accrington- and Bury player Andrew Mangan. The game concerned was last season's tie between the mighty Accrington Stanley and Bury; a game which Bury won 2-0.

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Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal. If you ever needed a tip for picking a winner for the Champions League this year, you don't need to look any farther than these four clubs. Out of the final eight teams left, four of them come from the English Premier League;Â no matter how you look at that stat, [. Click to continue reading...

PartyBets and Gamebookers is taking the sting out of any late drama in all European and South American zone WC2010 qualifiers by paying out on two results in a match if a goal is scored in injury time at the end of the match. For example, when Denmark beat Portugal in a thrilling game in Lisbon [...]img src="http://feeds2. Click to continue reading...

Better hope he doesn#8217;t end up being your best customer Bookmakers Better has made gambling addict Paul Merson its new commercial face. The ex-Arsenal and England star has battled his addiction for more than 20 years and claims to have lost more than £7 million at the bookies. But he has still agreed to front Better#8217;s [. Click to continue reading...

OTP's fortnightly betting round-up With so much football on over the last couple of weeks, it is hard to believe that it is time for The Daft Punt column to take a look at some of the more original football bets once again. Time flies when you are having fun. With every single Premier League team in [. Click to continue reading...

Time to do a SAF and bring on Rooney It is getting towards the business end of the season where trophies, relegation and promotion are going to be decided. With this in mind, let's take a look at this weekend's football fixtures and some of the less obvious ways you can spend your money in the [...] Click to continue reading...

Unlike England, we have Rooney available so here's The Daft Punt We have an action packed weekend of football ahead of us. Despite there being only one Premier League game, there is the FA Cup to look forward to as well as a number of football league fixtures. It is time to look at where to [...] Click to continue reading...

Liverpool v. Chelsea Stadium: Anfield Stadium, England Competition: English Premier League Date: 1 February 2009 Kickoff: 16:00 GMT, 11:00 ET Second-place Chelsea will host third-place Liverpool in a titanic Premiership clash! Soccerlens will be bringing you the action live! Log on to the site 15 minutes before kickoff for the liveblog! Click to continue reading...

Liverpool (Torres 89′, 90′ + 4) 2-0 Chelsea Stadium: Anfield Stadium, England Competition: English Premier League Date: 1 February 2009 Kickoff: 16:00 GMT, 11:00 ET Liverpool needed 2 late goals to get past 10-man Chelsea in an ill-tempered and controversial match at Anfield. Soccerlens brought you the action live! Click to continue reading...

Welcome to The Daft Punt, our new fortnightly betting column. Thomas Rooney, a professional sports writer who blogs about football betting, will give you a run-down of the flutters the straight-laced betting sites didn't tell you about. It's a bit of fun, but it doesn't mean you can't make some money out of it! Click to continue reading...

When it comes to football betting, two of the great things about winning are: You win some money You don't lose any money Well how does it grab you to have the second one guaranteed? Then look no further because here's a free guide to free football betting online. It doesn't get much better than free guides to [. Click to continue reading...

Having lost 2-0 to League One's Hartlepool in the Third Round of the FA Cup, Stoke City now face the daunting prospect of a visit from league-leaders Liverpool. Liverpool are the only member of the Premier League's leading six clubs not to visit Stoke City. The Potters have won two and lost three of their home [. Click to continue reading...

Club managers must hate it when their players leave for international duty. There is always that inevitable feeling that they will return with an injury, ruling them out of important league games. Arsene Wenger will be particularly unhappy this week after not one, not two, but three of his Arsenal players returned from international duty [. Click to continue reading...