It’s that time of the year when most punters like having a light-hearted bet on the white fluffy stuff falling from the sky on Christmas Day. With the arrival of snow to many southern parts of Britain this morning, you can be sure that they’ll be plenty of punters out there, who will start to think about placing their bets today on White Christmas betting odds for 2011.

Over the last couple of years, the bookies have taken a bit of a beating, when it comes to White Christmas Betting. Both 2009 and 2010 were winter wipeouts as the country got gripped in some of the coldest weather in decades.

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The Royal Wedding takes place this Friday (29th of April) at Westminster Abbey and most of this country will stand still to see Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot. Everybody loves a good wedding and even more so when it comes to the Royal family and this time around the bookies have went into overdrive to give us a host of novelty Royal Wedding betting odds.

Seriously, you can place a bet on just about every occassion to do with the Royal Wedding from what colour is the Queen’s hat (which seems to be a favourite with the betting public) to which song Prince William and Kate Middleton will choose as their First Dance.

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For most betting punters, one novelty bet we think about at this time of year, is Will it Snow on Christmas Day betting. Like most weather betting, it is purely guesswork. The UK has one of the most adverse weather systems on the planet. The saying, “4 Seasons in One Day” was probably borne to best describe the British weather.

There has been a trend over the last few years that we have seen the white fluffy stuff fall round about this time of year. But we’re concerned about betting on it snowing on Christmas Day 2010. For it to qualify as a White Christmas the bookies will look to the British Weather Service to confirm that indeed a solitary snowflake has fallen from the sky to any of the following areas during the 24 hours of Christmas Day :

London, Buckingham Palace; Liverpool, Albert Dock; Aberdeen, Aberdeen FC grounds; Glasgow Cathedral; Edinburgh Castle; Exeter, Met Office; Manchester, Granada Studios; Birmingham, Bullring; Cardiff, Millennium Stadium; Belfast, Aldergrove Airport; Leeds, Elland Road.

The Met Office weather forecast for Christmas Day is sunshine by day, but with severe frost overnight with the South East of England expected to receive either rain or snow.

If you’re interested in placing some free bets on if it will snow on Christmas Day then check out our White Christmas weather betting page for plenty of special offers from a multitude of bookmakers.

Boxing Day is a great day for sport, this year. And for all you betting punters wanting to escape down the pub for a few hours to escape the in-laws then here is a quick rundown on what sports are taking place for your Boxing Day betting fixtures.

Cricket Betting
England resume their second Test against South Africa, on Boxing Day, in Durban. After escaping with a draw from the first Test, England will be looking to go one better and beat South Africa in their own backyard, as long as they don’t dramatically collapse like they did on the first Test.

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At last, after about 5 years of dominance, we have a real Christmas Number One betting war on our hands and it sounds surreal to say this, but the X Factor winner might not be number one at Christmas time. Thanks to online social media sites, Facebook and Twitter, an online backlash campaign against Simon Cowell’s stranglehold of the British music charts at the moment, has grown in strength and made, Rage Against the Machine, a real contender against Joe McElderry for the Christmas number one spot.

Betting has got so heated that Ladbrokes and William Hill suspended bets as over 90,000 downloads were registered in just 1 day for Rage Against the Machine. However, with McElderry’s single being released as a CD from today it is expected that he will narrow the gap pretty quickly. Rage Against the Machine is only available to buy as a download.

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On February the 22nd 2009, Hollywood shall once again put on its sparkle as the Oscars come to town. This year, one film has caught the imagination of a nation. Slumdog Millionaire, a small British film, directed by Danny Boyle, is the story of a boy from India’s slum in a rags to riches drama – a true underdog movie. Slumdog has been nominated in 10 categories including Best Picture and Best Director. In India alone a staggering $41 million has been placed on Slumdog in this years Oscars betting 2009.

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As we all heave a collective sigh of relief now the extended wall-to-wall coverage of the inauguration of Barack Obama is complete, we can forget about him and focus on who’s going to win the Australian Open or the start examining in detail the runners for the forthcoming Cheltenham Gold Cup, er . . . can’t we? Well, no, actually, we can’t – forget about him I mean. As if to demonstrate the huge diversity of betting opportunities on online betting sites, ethereal bookies have come up with a tempting and mouth-watering string of betting offers on Barack which will keep us in political betting for the duration of his tenure and beyond.

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The Baftas used to take place after the Oscars but then the British Academy results were perceived as a bit of an irrelevance so they moved them to a date a week or two before their American counterpart so as to play an important role for award betting enthusiasts in foreshadowing the likely Oscar victors. Of course, the Golden Globes come a week or two before our award ceremony and they now act to foretell what the likely Bafta outcome will be.

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It’s the end of the year and 2009 will be daunting for many of us. Scanning the newspapers this morning there’s little to encourage and much to make us wish for the year to hurry by and bring on 2010. Then, like a little oasis of joy, fellow sports betting friends, in the middle of all the gloom, are a couple of pages that every year I grab and scuttle off to read. They are this year’s Sporting Calendar.

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Arguably X Factor has managed to recover from the outrage and disaffection caused by the early expulsion of Laura and Diana and the show ended on Saturday with Alexandra crowned as this years winner. Doubtless the debacle caused by the loss of a fourth contender in the semi finals of Strictly Come Dancing will also be ironed out and forgotten in the final this coming Saturday. The absence of John Sergeant, who voluntarily retired for the show a couple of weeks ago, has brought a voting anomaly to light and forced the programmes producers to allow all three remaining semi-finalists free passage to the final.

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