The Champions League group stages draw has been pretty kind to all particpating British clubs. Arsenal, Man Unt, Chelsea, Liverpool and Rangers can breathe a sigh of relief that although they still face tough opposition it could have been a lot more difficult.
It seems Celtic have little chance of doing anything other than turning up at The Emirates Stadium tomorrow night (Wednesday, August 26, 2009) and going through the motions to keep the score respectable. Arsenal need another professional display to match their quality performances so far this season to proceed into the group stages of the competition. Celtic, already trailing 2-0 from the first leg of the Champions League qualifier, really have nothing to lose but to go out and play football and this is why this tie remains a potential hazard for the men from North London.
The fifth and final test of The Ashes gets underway today and with the series tied at 1-1 it doesn’t get anymore tense than this in Ashes cricket. England will be looking for more discipline and commitment than they showed in the last test, when they lost heavily to Australia in Leeds.
They’ll (England) be looking for their big players to be confident in this final test – none-more-so than Andrew Flintoff who’ll be looking for a winning end before he retires from International cricket. However, you can be assured that Australia will not be reading from the same script.
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At the end of this month (August 09) the last tennis major of this year – The US Open – will be contested and the bookies have placed Britain’s Andy Murray as 2nd favourite. Murray claimed the seeding of No.2 in the World Tennis rankings earlier in the week and this must boost his confidence about winning the US Open – it’s certainly boosted the bookies thoughts on his chances. But let’s be clear about this, no matter how we feel about Murray, his position of second seed is as much to do with Nadal’s long-term injury than Murray’s winning performances in the Masters series.
Current WBC heavyweight boxing champion, Vitali Klitschko, announced recently he is to fight up-coming American, Chris Arreola, on the 26th of September in Los Angeles. 38-year-old Klitschko opted for the undefeated Arreola, after British hopeful, David Haye, pulled out citing a back injury as the reason prior to the bout. Klitschko is looking for a big pay-day and by staging the fight in Los Angleles, Arreola’s hometown, is guaranteed of that at least. Ironically, ths biggest pay-out Klitschko would ever receive is a fight against his brother, current IBF and WBO champ, Wladimir Klitschko. But that fight will never take place after the brothers promised their Mother they would never fight one-and-other in the ring.
The new Premiership season gets underway at last this weekend and finally it is business as usual. There are many questions waiting to be answered upon the start of the new 09/10 Premiership and football betting fans will be rubbing their hands in anticipation.
The high profile US PGA Championship gets underway between the 13-16 August 2009, at Hazeltine Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. Defending champion Padraig Harrington is looking forward to the championship and is eager to hold onto his title after seeing his defence of his Open crown end without much of a fight from the Irish golfer. Tiger Woods once more takes up the early favourite role by the bookies but Woods will face stiff competition from the World’s No.2, Phil Mickelson.
With just days to go before the Coca Cola Championship 09/10 season gets underway, we thought for all you football betting enthusiasts that we would run a post here at the Free Bets betting blog on who might be promoted or relegated come next May. Without question, the Championship is THE toughest league in England. Sure, the Premiership has the big 4, the big name players and a very nice TV kitty dividied out to all the competing teams. However, in The Championship, there are about a dozen teams all equipped to win the league and the remaining are not that far off the mark either. The margin between success and failure in The Championship is very tight indeed.
