The first Tuesday in November sees the richest two-mile handicap in the world take place, billed as the race that “stops a nation” it is widely known as the Melbourne Cup.

An anticipated 100,000 people will flock to Flemington Racecourse to watch the race with the remainder of Australia enjoying a bank holiday and a bet on the hopeful winner of-course.

Early betting has seen Alcopop (11-2), Viewed (6-1), Efficient (9-1) and Roman Emperor (10-1) instilled as favourites to win the Melbourne Cup.
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The British public love a laugh, and right now there playing one of the biggest nationwide pranks on a certain Mr Cowell. Over the weekend, the X-Factors double act of John and Edward, were reported to have received the highest number of votes from the show’s phone-in poll. Quite simply, John and Edward are car crash TV! You can’t stop yourself from watching, even though you know, deep down, it’s wrong.

I fully expect, Simon Cowell, to appear on this weekends show with a Rento-Kill team beside him, ready to get these pests fully under control. Because, if Cowell doesn’t, then the X-Factor and it’s reputation is going down the drain fast! John and Edward have built up a cult following from Robbie Williams to Noel Gallagher, so getting rid of these ‘likeable pests’ might be harder than a certain Mr Cowell thinks.
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Imagine, if you will, Manchester United and Chelsea playing week in, week out in The English League 1. No matter if they won the league or finished second they didn’t get promoted. What affect would this have on the clubs?

How could you expect the grounds to be full for every home game? Do you think the top players of world football would be attracted to the clubs, if this was the scenario? Finally, how would the other teams in the league feel towards Man U and Chelsea, if they released a press statement every couple of months complaining of their predicament and their longing to be accepted into the Championship or Premiership and escape their purgatory?

Now, look at Rangers and Celtic and you can understand why these two Scottish giants are in football freefall!

It’s not just hurting the Old Firm, it’s hurting Scottish football in general. Expectancy levels in Scottish football are hurtling towards an all time low. Most football betting punters have seen this coming for a good few years. The Old Firm have a domestic stranglehold on the game which is slowly choking it to a slow and painful death.
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Four more European teams will be looking to secure a World Cup 2010 place alongside England, Holland, Italy, Spain and co. Between the 14th and 18th of November, over home and away ties, the 8 best runners-up from the European qualifying groups will go head to head to secure their ticket for South Africa next year.

The draw has been made and some tasty ties will ensure that many football betting pundits will be licking their lips at the prospect of some great games to be had. Of course with it being a two-leg affair, it makes it even more exciting. Here we highlight the remaining teams chances and also their current betting odds for progression.
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This weekend sees the second round of games for Rugby Unions European Cup also widely known as the Heineken Cup. 24 teams from 6 nations will contest for this premier prize. Last years winners, Leinster (Ireland) have already gotten off to a shaky start to the defence of their title. Beaten 9 – 12 at home to London Irish (England), now Leinster must pick themselves up for a tough away match to Brive (France) who also lost their opening game.

Munster (Ireland) and Toulouse (France) are the early Heineken Cup betting favourites. Munster, although, lost their opening away game against a fighting Northampton Saints 31 – 27, but should win, with home backing, against shock troops, Benetton Treviso (Italy), whom they outclassed easily 51 – 0, when the sides last met at Munster’s home ground.
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This Sunday is the penultimate race in the F1 season. We visit Sao Paulo for the Brazilian Grand Prix and with Jenson Button stuttering to wrap up this competition, Sebastian Vettel looks a great outside bet to become champion with F1 betting punters.

Vettel trails Button by an incredible 16 points with only two races left to compete. Yet, with the pressure mounting on Brawn and Button many bookmakers have confirmed Vettel as clear favourite to drive to victory at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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With this weekends impending World Cup Final 2010 Qualifiers taking place, we thought we would cast our net a little further than what is happening in and around the UEFA teams. OK, England’s already there, Scotland and Wales are out, Republic need to beat Italy to guarantee a play-off place and Northern Ireland have to beat the Czech Republic away and hope other results go there way.

However, all that aside, there is only one football story worth talking about this weekend, which is Maradona’s and Argentina’s struggling qualification chances. It seems odd to even think about a World Cup Final without hearing the famous chant, “Vamos vamos Argentina”.

But that is a possibility for the Albicelestes (Light blue and whites) if they fail to take something from their remaining 2 qualifying games.
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After much deliberation, tears and Cheryl Cole (Have I Made The Right Choice) close-ups, we were finally given our final 12 acts that should keep us entertained (hopefully) over the up-and-coming winter months.

The Over-25’s were indeed the toughest category to choose from and Simon has offered up 3 male vocalists which, one feels, has the potential x-factor winner amongst them. Unfortunately, Louis Walsh, selected, as I said he would, John and Edward Grimes as sheer get under your skin factor and they’ll probably be around for about 2 or 3 weeks getting more irritating each week.
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Tomorrow (Friday the 2nd of October 2009) will see the announcement of the successful host city for the 2016 Olympics. The grand presentation ceremony will be held in Copenhagen and the bidding cities are Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. Such is the feverish energy behind the Chicago bid that President Obama is flying into Copenhagen prior to the announcement. Many 2016 Olympics betting pundits are claiming that Obama’s appearance will indeed swing the decision in favour of Chicago.

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