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It’s been a groggy couple of days for those who support the gold and black in the West Midlands. On Sunday they suffered a humiliating 5-1 defeat at home to their rivals West Bromich Albion. Then yesterday afternoon, the board at Wolves decided that it was time to part company with manager Mick McCarthy after six years of loyal service to the club. The board also announced that they’ll have a replacement in place before their next Premier League game in two weeks – which has sparked a furore as to who’ll be the next Wolves Manager betting.

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According to public opinion this is a done deal. Harry Redknapp will be the next England manager. Such is the swathe of public opinion, that Harry Redknapp will succeed the now departed Fabio Capello, certain bookies have suspended taking anymore bets on the next England manager betting. But not all and it’s just as well…

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It’s a big weekend for National Hunt racing, this weekend. W’ve got the Denman Chase on Saturday along with the Betfair Hurdle at Newbury. Then on Sunday, the focus of horse racing betting punters turns to Leopardstown for the Grade 1 (3m) Hennessy Gold Cup.

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The Calcutta Cup is the promised prize this weekend, as ancient rivalries are revisited for a pulsating 80 minutes of passionate rugby as Murrayfield hosts the Scotland v England betting and kicks off the RBS 6 Nations 2012 tournament. This has to be the closest betting match between Scotland and England in decades.

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Newbury welcomes the Betfair Hurdle next weekend (February the 11th). The big Betfair Hurdle betting news is that Recession Proof will not defend his title at Newbury. According to the training camp, Recession Proof “just isn’t ready” to race in the Grade 3 (2M 110Y) race.

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One of the World’s biggest sporting spectacles will take place next Sunday (5th of February) as the New England Patriots will play the New York Giants for the Super Bowl XLVI at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in front of 70,000 fans and a global TV audience of around 100,000,000.

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The glitz and glamour of the film world will showcase its talents on the red carpet on the 26th of February 2012 as we celebrate the 84th Academy Awards – or better known as the Oscars to you and me.

Earlier in the week we heard the nominations for each category and immediately the bookies published their Oscar 2012 betting odds on whom Billy Crystal will be announcing come ceremony night.

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The main focus of this weekend’s Premier League betting will be at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester on Sunday as title rivals Man City and Tottenham will lay down their intentions of winning the league title race.

Roberto Mancini has seen his team turn in some indifferent performances since the turn of the new year. Three defeats and two wins have tempered the earlier furore of punters claiming that Man City would walk towards the league title this year. Granted, two of those aforementioned defeats came in the Cups, but it has punctured the mood that Mancini’s City were all-conquering.

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Will it be 3rd time lucky at the Australian Open for Andy Murray this year? Tennis betting punters will yet again back Murray to claim his first ever Slam, especially, as Andy Murray has reached the last two finals of the Australian Open (2010, 2011) only to fall flat at the final hurdle.

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The WBC heavyweight championship between Vitali Klitschko and Dereck Chisora will take place in Munich on the 18th of February and it’s not hard to predict whom the boxing betting fans will be backing to win in this bout.

The unpredictable Dereck ‘Del Boy’ Chisora (17, 15W, 2L, KO’s 10), who lost his British and Commonwealth titles to Tyson Fury back in July last year, then followed that defeat up with another against Finnish boxer, Robert Helenius, for the vacant European heavyweight title, must have thought all his christmases had come at once when he was lined up to contest for the WBC heavyweight title against Vitali Klitschko (45, 43W, 2L, KO’s 40).

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