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Seems, we will have Rooney featuring in a final this summer. Granted, Martyn Rooney, is not as famous as his footballing namesake, but he does have a decent chance of winning some gold. The 2010 European Championships, held this year in Barcelona, Spain, once was a nice, comfortable place where we could send our top 400 metre runners, knowingly they would come back with gold or at worse silver. However, the days of Roger Black, Duaine Ladejo and Iwan Thomas are filed away under the heading, “British Athletics, The Time When We Were Good At Running”.

Of course it has been a long wait since we have had much success with British Athletics betting. By that I mean exactly what “Smithy from Gavin and Stacey” said in his Sport Relief speech, proper athletics, the running type not the sitting down sports. Team GB failed to win a single individual gold medal at the previous European Championships.
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In just a little over a month’s time the final of the Mens Tennis Majors gets underway at Flushing Meadows, New York. Yes, the 2010 US Open betting is the final chance for Andy Murray to claim a Grand Slam (well, for this year, anyway). Looking back at Murray’s Wimbledon semi-final exit you tend to feel that the big Scotsman is just unlucky to be playing tennis at a time when there are others whom are just a step-above anything Murray can bring to a game.

Signs that Roger Federer is beginning his slide down from that grateful height he has risen to in those seven outstanding years where he dominated the game are evident. Murray could have won Wimbledon except he had to beat Nadal. And although Murray gave it his best, it just was never good enough to overcome the classy Spaniard.

Now, it’s hard court time at the US Open, a game much more suited to Murray’s style.
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It’s a busy week ahead for horse racing betting fans. Ahead of the Glorious Goodwood betting festival, which starts next week on the 27th of July, we have the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes betting this Saturday the 24th.

This year, Ascot sees Derby winner, Workforce, go head-to-head with Harbinger and it is sure to be a pulsating 1 mile and 4 furlongs for both horses with the winner taking it’s place in the King George roll of honour.

Betfair have increased the purse of this flat racing showcase to around £1,000,000 with the winner of the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes walking away with a cool £567,700.
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The brand new 2010-2011 Premier League season kicks off on the 14th of August 2010 and what a season it promises to be. Here we look at the betting chances of the big four in the Premier League and if Manchester City or Spurs can sustain a serious threat to lifting the Premier League trophy.

Chelsea, the current Premier League Champions are installed as pre-season favourites to win the Premiership again this season. Chelsea have been pretty quiet on the transfer front, off-loading Joe Cole to Liverpool while bringing in the talented attacking midfielder, Yossi Benayoun from Liverpool in a £3 million deal. Anelka also extended his contract with the champs after he was sent home from the despicable French camp during the South African World Cup.

Chelsea kick off their campaign with a home game against West Brom and Premier League betting fans should see this as 3 points in the bag ahead of their Premiership defence.

Prediction : Premier League Champions
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On Saturday, the 17th of July, the 2010 World Matchplay Darts tournament showcases at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool until the final on July the 25th. World Matchplay Darts is always a big fans favourite and as usual the pre-tournament favourite belongs to Phil Taylor. Taylor has won an incredible 10 titles in the tournaments 16 year history and he’ll be looking once again to take the crown this year and make it a hat-trick of victories.

World Matchplay darts betting sees Englishman, James Wade, tucked nicely behind Taylor as second favourite. Wade was champion of the World Matchplay Darts championship, back in 2007 and beaten finalist in 2008.

Australian, Simon Whitlock, is enjoying a second-coming to the PDC circuit since his return back in 2009. Whitlock was beaten by Taylor, earlier this year in the final of the 2010 PDC World Championship. A fine show of form in the Whyte and Mackay 2010 Premier League Darts has seen Whitlock climb into second place. Could be one to watch, although, Whitlock has landed in the top-half of the draw, which means he has a potential clash with Taylor in the semis. Worth a gamble, though.
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The oldest and most respected golf championship in The World gets underway this week and looking at the Open golf betting odds this Major is anyone’s to win. The Old Course at St Andrews has seen many spectacular wins down through the year’s where history has been made – the home of golf and the place where champions are born.

Tiger’s back but perhaps in body and not in spirit as he struggles to find the form that made him the World’s top golfer before his private life turned his life upside down. Tiger woods has been paired with Englishman, Justin Rose, and Colombian Camilo Villegas. Rose looks in good form heading into the 2010 Open Golf Championship with Ladbrokes offering odds of 25/1 for Rose to win the Open Golf Championship 2010.
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A new name will be engraved onto the World Cup trophy as Spain and Holland prepare to do battle at the The 19th FIFA World Cup Final this Sunday at Soccer City, Johannesburg. For the first time ever in a major championship, Spain and Holland meet. It is fitting during this tournament that these two giants of european football should contest in the final. Both have been exceptional to watch at times although spare a thought for poor Germany who have been the team of the tournament in my mind at least.

English ref, Howard Webb, will officiate the Final. Perhaps, this might be the last final of the World Cup that is played without using technology.

Around the country, world cup betting will go into a frenzy tomorrow, so don’t miss out on the abundant amount of free bets and offers that the bookies have in store to celebrate the Spain Holland betting bonanza. An expected £50 million will be bet on Sunday’s final between Spain and Holland.
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If you look down the catalog of homegrown winners of the British Grand Prix you’ll see an impressive list of household names synonymous with motor racing such as Damon Hill, Johnny Herbert, Lewis Hamilton, Nigel Mansell, David Coulthard, Stirling Moss and Jackie Stewart. There is one name missing from that list of British F1 magnificence and that is Jenson Button.

Button’s best ever finish at Silverstone was 4th back in 2004 and looking at the current bookie odds on Formula One betting, they don’t fancy Button to do any better this year with Victor Chandler offering a best bet of 8/1 for Button to win the British GP.
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A place in the Fifa World Cup 2010 Final on Sunday awaits the victors of the Germany Spain match tonight against last night’s winners Holland. It’s sure to be an eye-catching fixture as both these teams have been simply world class in some of their previous games during this South African spectacle.

For Germany, this could be their year, having not won the World Cup since 1990 although they were losing finalists back in 2002. Spain, on the other hand, have nowhere near Germany’s World Cup pedigree, they may be current Euro Champions but they have never made an appearance in the final itself, their best place ever was 4th back in 1950.

Fifa World Cup betting fans will be weighing up the current form between these two European footballing super-powers.
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The first of the FIFA World Cup 2010 Semis gets underway tonight with Uruguay Vs The Netherlands at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, kick off at 19:30 UK time and it should be a cracker. Uruguay, who mugged Ghana of a semi-final spot, after a blatant Suarez handball stopped Ghana and Africa progressing, will be cast as the bad guys ahead of the Uruguay Holland betting stakes.

The newspapers are defining Holland as having been chosen to merit out some World Cup justice on behalf of the Ghanians and fair play fans everywhere. Everyone likes a good guys vs bad guys story and the majority of neutrals will be rooting for the mighty Dutch to come up trumps.
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