It’s back to the jungle with a new crop of career struggler’s and unknown ‘celebrities’ for the new series of ‘I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here!’, otherwise known as ‘I’m Not A Celebrity – Get Me In There’. This show is a bit like ‘Big Brother’ TV Betting only it’s shorter and some of the contestants have articulacy. It’s a lot more appealing because the character flaws and strengths that the characters gradually reveal over the three weeks they are in there are more interesting and are more relevant to our everyday lives.

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The joust currently underway in India between a team which has just put Australia to the sword and a newly resurgent England that enjoyed a spectacular defeat of South Africa earlier this year may well be an event which reveals to we cricket betting fans whether or not India is now the top cricket team in the world. Their score in the first One Day International of 387 – 5 is the highest tally India has ever scored against a test Nation and the highest score ever conceded by England playing in this format.

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Last week, at the Free Bets Blog, we touched on the pros and cons of all-weather horse racing tracks. Continuing with that theme, we wanted to look at the state of Horse Racing venues and what the future holds. Not far from where I live, barely a couple of miles, is an old abandoned racecourse called Bogside. The track is still visible in parts, but the stadia has eroded into a rubble landscape. At one time, Bogside racetrack served a number of communities and plenty of great meets were held there, including The Scottish Grand National. Now it lies in a silent, forgotten place. My trip down memory lane does have a point, however, when you realise that over the last eighty years only 1 new racecourse has been built.

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It is tempting to view the current condition of Arsenal Football Club as on oasis of stability and good practice by anyone sensing impending chaos in the future of the English Premiership. With Everton and Newcastle on sale like shiny boys-toys in a Dubai shop window, Liverpool’s owners facing foreclosure by the banks and Manchester City’s former owner losing his British visa the Gunners nice stable board of fully accountable directors operating under a sustainable financial structure must surely be the envy of anyone who worries about the future of our National game.

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We idolise them on the football field, buy the products they endorse on the TV, read about them in the sports pages, we can’t get enough of them. Then we find out what they’re earning and suddenly we see them in a different light. Yes, modern day professional footballers earn exhuberant wages but did you realise just how rich the very Crème de la Crème of the footballing sphere are? Here at the free bets blog your about to find out, as we introduce the, Top 10 Richest Footballers of 2008 :

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Fundamental flaws have been revealed in each of the prime time, BBC and ITV flagship shows, the X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing over the past weekend. In the case of both, contestants with an outstanding ability, and, in at least one case, the talent to have won, have been ousted in favour of candidates with far less talent. This has left enraged X Factor betting and Strictly Come Dancing betting fans of both of the shows contemplating the dubious value of the public vote.

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This coming Saturday sees the end of the Flat Racing season in this country – or does it? All- weather racing surfaces have been promoted for some time in Britain but there has been much resistance form both trainers and horse racing betting fans to this innovation. Punters were suspicious that trainers and owners were putting forward inferior horses for this kind of racing.

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You have to wonder why, some people do the things they do. A few days ago, Dean McKeown, had his Horse Racing licence revoked. McKeown, was recently banned for 4 years after alledgidly being found to defraud punters by holding horses back in races. He was given special permission to keep racing from the British Horseracing Authority while he appealed against the decision. Then on Monday, Dean McKeown, while riding at Southwell on a horse called, “Rascal in the Mix”, a pre-race favourite, rode the horse home in fifth position.

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Today, America will wake and head in record numbers to the polling station to elect their next President. For John McCain and Barack Obama, after a mammoth 2 years campaigning trail, one man will go onto become the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth.

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All Hail Hamilton – there’s nothing to be said to diminish the massive achievement of this man, who pitted his wits and skill against a crop of excellent rivals and, at the age of 23, came out on top to become the youngest Formula 1 Champion of all time. Ironically, his arch rival, Fernando Alonso had been the previous youngest champion having won the title in 2005 at the age of 24. Hamilton is also the first Afro-Caribbean driver and the first black man to take the top Formula 1 title.

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