Christmas Betting 2009
Christmas means so much to so many (kids = toys and games, adults = alcohol and appallingly uncoordinated knitwear), but for the online novelty betting industry it signals two massive markets that grab just about everyone's attention as the big day approaches. The odds of a white Christmas occurring (predominantly in London, although some northern outposts also merit a look in these days) and just what are the chances of a record other than the X Factor winners' attaining the Christmas Number One Betting spot. Two unanswered questions that hang heavy in the crisp wintry air when breathed by the populace as Christmas day dawns, and not just the heathen-like hardcore betting community at large. But every single man, woman, child in our midst are clambering for confirmation of either. Well, those that have wagered a few quid on the outcome anyway.
You only have to type phrases like 'white Christmas' and 'Christmas number one' into search engines and you're confronted by a mesmerising array of websites that have been hastily set up to support those of us struggling to cope with such heavyweight demands thrust upon us at this testing time of year. Everybody's doing it, and everyone wants a slice of the Christmas betting 2009 action and get it where they can. But other than the online entertainment betting hardy perennials that are White Christmas Betting and Christmas Number One betting 2009, what other Christmas betting 2009 highlights are there to warm our cockles to (and make us register our interest – and personal details – with the web's myriad of Christmas betting 2009 market-providing bookies). Well, far more than you'd imagine. A veritable treasure trove in fact.
Christmas Betting 2009 Markets Amount To Much More Than White Christmas And Number One Single
There now follows a short message on behalf of the online bookies' Christmas betting 2009 markets, which is a little more exciting than a party political broadcast but not quite as raucous as HRH The Queen's Christmas Day speech. And it's all about what Christmas betting 2009 markets you can expect to find right at this moment. Call it the Free Betting Online bite-size seasonal guide to Christmas betting 2009 opportunities as provided by the web's most popular novelty betting bookies. Although that might be too much of a mouthful, so instead just look upon it as a brief insight into new and interesting ways to spend some of your spare internet betting money left over from your Christmas shopping trip.
You know, the odd few quid you might have thought about putting to one side for the frantic Barclays Premier League Christmas and New Year fixture schedule, or perhaps the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day or even the PDC World Championship darts in London that takes centre stage over the festive period. Given the transient and relatively speaking shallow nature of the Christmas betting 2009 markets, nearly all the pages listed are Outright Win only, but don't let that put you off giving it a go; and delving a little deeper than the traditional Christmas betting fayre of previous years.
Christmas Number One Betting Include Albums, Books, Films, Soaps And Toys According To Online Novelty Betting Bookies
Christmas Number One Album Betting
Paddy Power and Ladbrokes are firmly placed at the vanguard of the Christmas Number One Album betting markets, and in terms of 2009, Britain's Got Talent runner-up, Susan Boyle is in the driving seat to sew up this category with her 'I Dreamed A Dream' debut long-player. The spinster from a remote Scottish village won over the hearts of the nation earlier in 2009 with her amazing vocal performances on the ITV talent show and hasn't looked back as her album broke all artists in its first week of sale, and looks set to repeat that feat in America too – a notoriously difficult market for us Brits to crack.
Of the other options, American fruit loop Lady GaGa, former X Factor winners Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke as well as last year's runners-up JLS, serving military voices The Soldiers, trusty Irish balladeers Westlife, irritating US diva Rihanna and Canadian crooner with the accent on the 'e' Michael Buble are all in the second tier of running for a crack at the Christmas number one album market. Essentially the unsung alternative hero of the Christmas number one music betting market per se, the forgotten member of a boy band if you like.
Christmas Number One Celebrity Book Betting
Paddy Power are taking this Christmas betting 2009 market and running with it as far as we can gather from the outset. The way they see it is that 'My Championship Year' by newly crowned British F1 champ, Jenson Button' is going to do the best-selling Christmas book biz this Yuletide. No mention of whether it's available in hard or soft-back covers, we guess you'll have to check out Amazon or nip down to your nearest WHSmith to find that one out. We can only hope that he stays the online bookies betting first choice up to the big day itself, unlike his last minute post pipping by Ryan Giggs at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2009 awards.
Other great titles also available – and next in the Christmas Number One Celebrity Book betting markets – include 'My Comeback: Up Close And Personal' by Tour De France cycling legend and cancer survivor, Lance Armstrong, 'Ooh! What A Lovely Pair: Our Story' by Im A Celebrity......Get Me Out Of Here presenters, Ant and Dec, 'Driven To Distraction' by the increasingly curmudgeonly Top Gear presenter and champion of political correctness, Jeremy Clarkson and the superbly titled 'My Shit Life So Far' by exceedingly funny stand-up comic and BBC Mock The Week panellist, Frankie Boyle.
Christmas Day Films Feature On Novelty Betting Bookies' Online Christmas Markets
Christmas Number One Film Betting
A seemingly specialist Christmas betting 2009 line courtesy of Bet365 amongst other interactive novelty betting bookies, the Christmas Number One Film betting section focuses on just which major feature films appearing at Christmas on the four primary terrestrial TV channels will garner the highest viewing figures once the stats are published in the days thereafter. As it stands the animated romp that's as appealing to adults as it is to their offsprings, namely 'Shrek 2' will go head-to-head with another movie predominantly aimed at the younger generation, 'The Incredibles'. Elsewhere, 'Wallace And Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit' is second favourite, closely followed by the family favourite and third in the Johnny Depp-starring Disney franchise, 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End'.
It's all a far cry – thankfully to some of you, not so for some of us – from the fond Christmas TV gold that was a classic James Bond film filling in the televisual airtime between the Queen's speech and the Morecambe and Wise Christmas special or thereabouts. The emergence of CGI technology and the less-violence approach to 'family orientated' Christmas movies has put paid to that unfortunately. That said, Toy Story is up there with Moonraker even in our book.
Christmas Number One TV Programme Betting
Notoriously the biggy when it comes to Christmas betting TV fodder as much today as it was in yesteryear, Bet365, Boylesports and Stan James open up nostalgia-inspired Christmas Number One TV Programme betting virtual books on this eventuality, with some contemporary classics in the frame for this year. All three Christmas betting 2009 bookies are of the one collective online novelty betting voice when suggesting that 'Doctor Who' is odds on favourite to grab the Christmas TV programme glory this year; especially in light of it being the current Doctor – David Tennant's; last outing as the time lord before handing over the Tardis for his latest reincarnation.
After Doctor Who, all eyes will be fixed firmly on 'Victoria Woods Midlife Christmas' to deliver the entertainment, whilst the Caroline Aherne-penned, 'The Royle Family: The Golden Egg Cup' is the one we're waiting for most over the festive period. 'Ant and Decs Christmas Show' is sure to attract a following too as most of us sleep off the turkey, whilst the laugh-out-loud 'Gavin and Stacey' will add their own inimitable sense of occasion.
Christmas Number One Soap Betting
A straight forward televisual scrap between Hollyoaks and Doctors this one as....sorry...reading off the wrong script there. Eastenders and Coronation Street are set to make it the usual battle of the soap opera heavyweights again this Christmas as both strive to create the perfect dose of abject festive misery; a criteria they fulfil oh so well year on year as they attempt to outdo one another to provide the most depressing storylines imaginable for our entertainment. Suicide, rape, murder and disasters are the order of the (Christmas) day around Albert Square and on the cobbles of Weatherfield as 'Enders and Corrie fight for the all-important viewing figures by employing the most dramatic shock tactics the producers can get away with. Eastenders are just edging the Christmas Number One Soap betting markets as we write. According to Paddy Power and Bet365. Brace yourselves, that's all the advice we can offer.
Christmas Number One Toy Betting Popular Choice For Internet Bookies' Christmas Betting Markets
Christmas Number One Sports Autobiographies Betting
This Christmas betting 2009 market depends on which sports tick your box for the most part. Or rather which sports your distant relatives think you're actually still remotely interested in reading about in reality, seeing as they often appear as stocking fillers on the big day whether you put them on your wish list for Father Christmas or not. 'Open: An Autobiography' by former tennis champ, Andre Agassi is favourite with Boylesports, probably in respect of recent excerpts from it causing controversy in the tennis circles for a number of reasons, as the outspoken American player spills the beans on what made him the player he was. 'El Nino: My Story' by Liverpool's Spanish striker, Fernando Torres, is up there amongst the front-runners too, and would provide the perfect present for the Liverpool fan. That's presuming there's any remaining after Rafa Benitez' attempts at eroding support this season.
Maintaining a football note, and 'Farewell But Not Goodbye' by the late and legendary Newcastle United, Ipswich Town and England manager, Sir Bobby Robson is set to sell by the bucket-load, whilst 'Andrew Flintoff: Ashes To Ashes' by one of English cricket's most colourful characters wont be left on any bookshelves either. Likewise, 'My Championship Year' by Jenson Button as mentioned earlier and 'Coming Of Age: The Autobiography' by Britain's world number two tennis player, Andy Murray.
Christmas Number One Toy Betting
Side-stepping the over-riding urge to descend into needless sentimentality, the Christmas toys of our day included the latest Lego Technic sets and the advent of the console games. Happy days. Yet Christmas toys 2009 – as gleefully flagged-up by Paddy Power – accommodate the latest new-fangled childhood attention-grabbing toys that will parents hope wont be cast aside by Boxing Day and a fate similar to generations that have gone before. This year sees 'Go Go Hampsters' the Christmas Number One toy betting pace-setter, followed by 'Battle Strikers Tournament Set' and 'Transformers Bumblebee Helmet'. 'Bop It, Vtech Vmotion System, LuLu My Cuddlin Kitten' and 'Rocky The Robot Truck' complete the toys with the reported shortest odds.