The Welsh have been planning the Ryder Cup 2010 for the last 9 years. They even built a specific course, ‘The Twenty Ten‘, to accomodate the best in form golfers from Europe and America as they go head-to-head for Ryder Cup glory.

Celtic Manor will write itself into Ryder Cup history over the next 3 days as Europe challenge current Ryder Cup winners, America, for one of the most talked prized golfing tournaments in the world.

The Foursomes for Friday’s 38th Ryder Cup tournament have been announced and they are as follows :

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It’s Matchday 2 in the Champions League betting group stages and for the UK teams involved in the competition – it’s a bit of a mixed bag! Injuries and players lacking confidence seem to be haunting the English teams. Manchester United, Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal have all suffered injuries to key players within their teams.

In fact, Tottenham Hotspur have only one recognised centre-back ahead of the visit of Dutch side, FC Twente, on Wednesday evening. Scottish champs, Glasgow Rangers, have also players out thanks to injury, however, the biggest loss for the Glasgow giants will be the loss of striker, Nikica Jelavic, who is ineligible to play in the Champions League.

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I bet there are a few twitchy people in London watching India’s Commonwealth Games debacle unfold and thinking, “Yeah, we’ll be alright for London 2012, won’t we?” The situation in India is now beyond repair, which is a shame for India as they seek to push themselves forward as one of the progressive superpowers in the world akin to China and the Beijing Olympics.

Unfortunately, for Delhi, the Commonwealth Games is becoming a national embarrassment and a political nightmare for India.

The pictures of a filthy Athletes Village are anything but abhorrent – and those images have stalled the departures of athletes from Scotland, Wales and New Zeland. Five other nations are now showing serious concerns about sending their athletes to the games. The Scottish sports minister Shona Robison, said there were still “serious health and safety concerns” about the athletes accommodation but that she was “very confident” Scotland’s athletes will fly out to Delhi, but when is still open for debate. England have announced that they will leave on time as scheduled.

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One of the things that surprised me about this years X-Factor Auditions was just how much guest judge, Nicole Scherzinger, likes to get up and dance. Yep the American singer, who leads the Pussycat Dolls, and current girlfriend of F1 driver Lewis Hamiltion, sure did shine at the auditions that she has been invited back to Bootcamp by Simon Cowell to add some well-needed spice to the show with the absence of Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole.

Bootcamp is the place where the X-Factor betting begins to heat up as the auditionees who made it through the 1st phase reveal even more of their talent or lack of it, in most cases. X-Factor Bootcamp betting favourites will be trimmed down to 4 groups of 6 (Male Soloists 14-24 yrs, Female Soloists 14-24 yrs, Over 25′s and The Groups) who will continue on to the next stage of the competition – the Judges Houses where each Judge, selected to mentor over their chosen group, will trim the wannabees down to 4 per category in time for the Live X-Factor TV shows.

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Where did this matchup come from, just last week we were introduced to the fact that David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye would be putting his WBA World Heavyweight title on the line against one time close friend, Audley ‘A-Force’ Harrison. When both fighters were being interviewed at the pre-fight press meeting, I sat there watching Sky Sports almost open-jawed as Haye announced that he had gotten more emails from fight fans, than anything else, suggesting they get this bout on.

Now, you can call me many things but sucker I ain’t – so either Haye doesn’t receive very much email from fight fans or Audley Harrison is the biggest email spammer going. Where’s the fight everyone wants – Haye vs one of the Klitchko’s? Still this is boxing we are talking about and as most boxing betting fans will tell you – expect the unexpected.

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Another ‘Battle of Britain‘ will take place at Old Trafford tonight as the Champions League Group C match between Manchester United and Rangers kicks off. Although to call this contest a ‘Battle’ is a trifle unjust. Manchester United are indeed the superpower between these two sides and Rangers will need to fight something akin to ‘guerrilla warfare‘ to take something from the game.

Bookies, not surprisingly, have Man U betting favourites in the Manchester United vs Rangers betting odds. Media focus will be on Wayne Rooney, left out of Saturday’s 3-3 draw away to Everton, saving the young striker from a barrage of personal abuse from his old club, as he fights his personal demons due to the intensity of newspaper headlines printed against him.

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And then there were seven! Last night, we saw, Michelle Bass and Vanessa Feltz evicted from the Ultimate Big Brother house and (Nasty) Nick Bateman survive the public vote. Which now leads us quite nicely onto Friday’s Ultimate Big Brother betting extravaganza.

The seven remaining contestants for the UBB Final showdown are :

• Brian Dowling
• Chantelle Houghton
• Nikki Grahame
• Samuel Preston
• Ulrika Jonsson
• Victor Ebuwa
• Nick Bateman

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Doncaster is the focus of the horse racing betting world over the next few days as the oldest British Classic Races takes place – it can only be the St. Leger betting stakes.

1 mile, 6 furlongs and 132 yards must be conquered before the St. Leger winner can claim an estimated £300,000 prize.

Early favourite in the St. Leger betting is Rewilding, cemented at 6/4 by Ladbrokes, the 3 year old colt is trained by Mahmood Al Zarooni. Rewilding came third in the Derby and won the Great Voltigeur impressively.

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The Euro qualifiers get underway tomorrow night (I know, Friday night football, once again UEFA show disdain towards fans travelling to the match citing that they are acting in the benefit of the players’ clubs, not too sure on that one) and for the home nations of England, Scotland and Wales it’s a chance to make a credible start to their European Championship qualifying campaign.

England will be looking to bury some of that hurt they inflicted on the nation by taking another positive step to atone for their miserable World Cup in South Africa. Capello and co have the Bulgarians to contend with, while Wales travel to Montenegro, all the teams feature in Group G alongside Switzerland – whom England will face come Tuesday night’s European Championship qualifying matches.

You’d expect Theo Walcott to headline England’s frontline alongside Rooney. Crouch is missing through injury but Jermain Defoe is expected to be fit and ready to play if needed. At the back it now looks certain that Joe Harte will be England’s #1 choice.

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