It’s crunch time tomorrow morning (Saturday 1st October) in New Zealand as England v Scotland meet in what is a crucial, do-or-die Pool B match. England v Scotland betting has Martin Johnson’s side as favourites to win the game and progress into the last eight. It’s a tougher ask for Scotland as they’ll need to beat England by 8 points to win the group and hope that Argentina lose.

With hosts New Zealand waiting for the runners-up in Pool B it’s imperative for both England and Scotland to win Pool B and avoid facing the All-Black’s.

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It’s the richest race in the European Horse Racing betting calendar, known as The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe – or just the ‘Arc‘ and it takes place this weekend.

This Sunday (2nd October 2011) at Longchamp the premier horse racing event will get under starters orders. Workforce, last year’s winner, is once again amongst the bookies L’Arc de Triomphe Betting favourites. However, it is last year’s third placed horse, Sarafina, who will start the race as the ante-post favourite.

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The Solheim Cup takes place over the next few days as Europe’s and America’s top women golfers go head-to-head at Killeen Castle, Co Meath, Ireland. If you think the men’s equivalent of the Ryder Cup is a tense competitive affair then you haven’t watched the Solheim Cup! Golf betting fans will tell you there is no love lost between these female golfers and you barely need to scratch the surface to see tensions reach boiling point on and off the golf course between these two teams.

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Have you been tuned in at the weekend, over the last few weeks of Summer, as the X-Factor returned to our screens with the audition shows? Of course it has been all-change on the judging panel as Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland, Tulisa Contostavlos become the new faces of the show alongside ol’ hounddog himself – Louis Walsh.

So far, X-Factor 2011 seems slicker than previous productions. More time has been spent on focussing on those that can actually sing – however, it wouldn’t be the X-Factor audiotion shows without the necessary peppering of those auditionees which seem a bit deluded or are just physically tone deaf.

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Another Old Firm match-up is upon us this weekened as Rangers v Celtic for the first time of this SPL 2011/12 season. It hasn’t been the prettiest of starts for either half of the Old Firm divide outside of the SPL this season. Rangers were conquered by FC Malmo in the Champions League qualifiers, they then had the safety net of dropping into the Europa Cup but with their heart not really in the competition – they fell at the first hurdle to NK Maribor. Now they face TAX issues and a real chance that the club could go into administration it’s not the start that Ally McCoist wished for as manager of the Light Blues.

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Tyson Fury is back in action this weekend, not that long after his unanimous points decision to win the British Heavyweight title from Dereck Chisora back in late July. It’s a bit of a quick return to the ring for the British champ and the quality of his opponent has raised a few eyebrows.

With the fight taking place at the Kings Hall, Belfast it’s also to be televised live on Channel 5 this weekend and it offers Fury the chance once more to raise his profile in the UK. However, Tyson Fury vs Nicolai Firtha is barely going to create a lot of noise elsewhere outside these shores, if any at all.

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The oldest British Classic flat horse race runs tomorrow (10/09/2011) which means I must be talking about the St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster. With prize money for this flagship race totalling around £500,000, you can get a sense as to why it is the most betted race in the English thoroughbred racing season.

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A World Heavyweight title is disputed this weekend between current champion, Vitali Klitschko and Polish challenger, Tomasz Adamek. Although the fight is barely registering on the richter scale in the UK media, elsewhere, especially in Poland where the event is taking place, the magnitude of hype is building rapidly.

Around 40,000 fans will cram into the City Stadium in Wroclaw, Poland (a possible venue for England if they qualify for next year’s Euro 2012 Championships) to witness homegrown talent, Tomasz Adamek, try and break the elder of the Klitschko brothers (Vitali) grip on heavyweight boxing.

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It’s a busy weekend for International football this weekend with England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic all in action tonight (Friday) and Scotland playing tomorrow. It’s starting to get in to the ‘nitty gritty’ stages of Euro Championship 2012 betting as we’re over the halfway stage and this weekend’s games plus next week’s midweek matches will undoubtedly give us all a better view as to which countries will be playing in the Euro Championships 2012 next summer.

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