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.

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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.

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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.

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David Beckham got a sharp response from the LA Galaxy fans on Sunday night and the message was loud and clear, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!” Large sections of the crowd were extremely unhappy by the No.23′s presence and it was reported that the boos were louder than cheers. Beckham now finds himself against a rock and a hard place. Quite frankly, I can understand the dissapointment of the LA Galaxy fans, they paid an extortionate amount of money to rent brand Beckham and help boost the profile of the MLS (Major League Soccer).

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Okay, I’m aware we are barely halfway through summer, it’s only day 2 of The Ashes series and the English school holidays have yet to take place. But think about it this way, it’s less than 5 weeks to the new 2009 / 10 Premiership season kicks off, and I am buzzing with anticipation of how the new Premiership betting season will shape-up. Birmingham, Wolves and Burnley add some new interest and I wouldn’t be so quick as to write any of them off as relegation fodder (remember, how Hull and Stoke were supposed to join WBA last season and look how that turned out.)

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England’s Under 21′s take another big step tomorrow (Friday the 26th June 09) in achieving European Championship success. England U-21′s face the host nation Sweden in this crucial semi-final and must be confident of disposing the host nation and facing either Italy or Germany in the final. Having caught some of the matches I have to say I’m mightily impressed by the way Stuart Pearce has this young, talanted side playing football. And with Pearce proclaiming, ‘There’s better to come…’ from his team, you begin to wonder , from a football betting prospective, just how good this England U21 team is?

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On Sunday, the English Premiership and the Scottish Premier League (SPL) brings their seasons to a conclusion and a lot of questions will be answered. Two teams out of Sunderland, Hull, Newcastle and Middlesbrough could lose their Premiership status and join West Brom in the Championship next season. While up in Scotland, Rangers and Celtic, go into the last game of the season still fighting to be crowned SPL Champions. It is bound to be a nervy end to the season for all the clubs and their fans involved and for Premiership betting and SPL betting neutrals it makes for a classic last day scenario.

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Tonight (Tuesday the 28th April) and tomorrow will see the first leg matches take place between the 4 competing teams in the Champions League semin finals. Barcelona vs Chelsea and Manchester United vs Arsenal. 4 giants of the game pitted against each other to see who will be crowned Kings of Europe. The Champions League really doesn’t get much better than this. Of course there is a likely chance that last years finalists, Manchester United and Chelsea, could meet each other again this year in Rome. With this in mind here’s the latest betting odds for the Champions League Semi Final 1st Legs…

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As we enter into the business end-of-the-season, the nerves begin to jitter some, and as usual the mind games start. Messrs Ferguson and Benitez have been throwing sly comments back and forth all season. But now, as usual, Fergie has upped the anti. He (Ferguson) spoke of Benitez’ ‘Arrogance’ towards fellow Premiership manager, Sam Allardyce, when after Liverpool scored the 2nd of the game, Benitez signalled that the game was over. Hardly, shocking or dragging another managers name through the mud is it? But this is Ferguson, this is his way, this is how he normally wins these mind games. With the Premiership betting stakes beginning to sear, this has now become the expected norm for a title challenge to Man U.

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The first leg of the Champions League Quarter Final kicks off tonight and tomorrow night, with the Premiership holding a very strong hand with all four English clubs still in the mix. Manchester united, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal are now just 4 games away from a Final place. With Chelsea and Liverpool meeting each other again for the 5th consecutive season, one thing is guaranteed, there will be 1 less English team in the Semis. Lets have a look at the latest Champions League 2009 Betting offers.

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