FA Cup Football Betting 2009-2010
FA Cup football betting 2009-2010 markets have produced a plethora of upsets so far which have seen Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool all crash out in the early stages of the competition. Outside of the Barclays Premiership Football betting 2009-2010 scope, those of us who immerse ourselves in football betting here in the UK like nothing better than to back an FA Cup winner. Now we are down to a straight match-up between Chelsea and Portsmouth for the right to be named FA Cup winner 2010.
Top versus Bottom Final
11/04/2010
Champions elect Chelsea will take on basement club Portsmouth in the 2010 FA Cup final. A late flexing of the muscle from Chelsea and a resolute and genuine 120 minutes from Portsmouth mean that this fantastically entertaining season will draw to a close with the two teams at polar opposites of the Premier League. No surprise that the bookmakers make Carlo Ancelotti’s men the clear betting favourites, but Pompey have been wrote off at every stage of the tournament to date and it would be wrong to dismiss their chances of ending a terrible season on an almighty high.
Semi-Finals Approach
01/04/2010
Aston Villa couldn’t have had a worse result in the dress rehearsal for their FA Cup semi-final match against Chelsea. The Villains went down 7-1 at Stamford Bridge in a match which effectively ended their fourth place aspirations. One slither of hope for Martin O’Neill and his men is that the game will be played on neutral ground and not at Stamford Bridge – the scene of the massacre.
Portsmouth will be looking to take something from the worst season in the club’s history by making it to their second semi-final in three years, but they will have to get past a rampant Tottenham Hotspur if they are to do so. The bookmakers believe that it will be an all London final and have Chelsea and Tottenham down as the FA Cup Football Betting 2009-2010 favourites.
Pompey march on
08/03/2010
A 2-0 home win for Portsmouth sent them into their second FA Cup semi-final in three years, ironically in the worst year of the clubs history. The club, who are now in administration, must now make an appeal to the FA in order to claim the £600,000 of prize money and TV revenue which the club should receive as a result of progressing to the semi-finals. However, the result offers a large chunk of respite to the Pompey fans who have endured a season of heartache as they watched the club that they love crumble around them, and an added bonus was the fact that they have avoided Chelsea in the semi-final draw.
Chelsea remain the FA Cup football betting 2009-2010 favourites but face a tough semi-final match against Aston Villa who are in desperate search of silverware to reward their efforts for the season. Tottenham or Fulham will be Pompey’s opponents after neither side could find a winner in their tie at Craven Cottage.
Replay anyone?
15/02/2010
As many Premier League managers voiced their concerns about not wishing to add another game to their already busy schedule by having to play an FA Cup replay, they got just what they didn’t want. Four of the eight FA Cup games at the weekend ended all square and resulted in replays which will be played in the week beginning 22nd February. Chelsea, Fulham and Portsmouth did secure their progression into the quarter-finals by scoring four goals against lower league opposition to book a place in the last eight.
Chelsea remain the FA Cup Football Betting 2009-2010 favourites but could face a mouth-watering quarter-final tie against Manchester City if they can see off Stoke in their replay. Aston Villa are second favourites at 9/2 but still need to see of Crystal Palace after leaving it late to secure a replay. Whilst Bolton and Tottenham will also meet again after neither team could find a winner in a 1-1 draw at the Reebok Stadium.
Chelsea are FA Cup Betting 2009-2010 favourites
From an FA Cup football betting 2009-2010 perspective, it's all about Chelsea. With Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United out of the way it is not surprising to see the holders as favourites to retain the trophy. However, it might be a little premature to overlook the FA Cup football betting 2009-2010 potential of either Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth or Aston Villa. Anyway, here's a complete round-up of all the latest prices in the FA Cup football betting 2009-2010 Win Outright market according to the online bookies;
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FA Cup 2009-2010 Semi-Final Matches
Here's the complete, revised list of the FA Cup semi-final 2009-2010 fixtures, set to be played at Wembley on the weekend commencing the 10th April 2010.
Chelsea v Aston Villa
Tottenham v Portsmouth
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Internet Football Betting Fans Come Together For FA Cup
Ask any promising young footballer whacking a ball backwards and forwards against a suburban wall or garage door as to what they personally dream of doing should their fledgling football career dream enter the realms of reality, and the chances are they'd reply with words to the effect of; scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final at Wembley for their home team club. FA Cup Football glory has been the long-held ambition of generations of football mad kids (who then turn into football mad adults who go on to spawn their own equally football mad kids, so starting the chain again) for as long as we can remember, and that's in spite of the emergence of the vividly exciting Barclays Premier League and UEFA Champions League club competitions that have ignited other parallel football supporting emotions and imaginations.
And it's this enduring vision that the marketing men capitalise on year in, year out and one of the nostalgic notions that the FA Cup is still sold on. The romance of the cup that the football pundits and fans bleat on about with the onset of every season's competition never diminishes as when barely into the proper rounds of FA Cup action the hugely anticipated giant slaying acts occur. It's that innate sense that the team you supported since boyhood days could, just could go all the way as each new FA Cup campaign is ushered in. Which of course if you happen to have been born within earshot of Old Trafford, Stamford Bridge, Anfield or Highbury means that the omens are good, yet conversely should you have spent your formative years in the depths of mid-Cheshire and gone along to show stoic support to Northwich Victoria (currently plying their footballing trade in the Blue Square North league) then you could be thinking maybe, just maybe.
Amateur, Non League And Professional Football Clubs Battle It Out For FA Cup Honours
762 clubs from the length and breadth of England were officially accepted to participate in this year's FA Cup, which kicked off with encounters between level 9 and 10 league clubs that comprise the less glamorous and well-known end of the current English football pyramid. Northern Premier League Division One North, Division One South, Southern Football League Division One Midlands, South and West and teams representative of the Isthmian League Division One, North and South were the first to be called in FA Cup Preliminary Round action, before the Northern Premier League Premier Division and their Southern Football League Premier Division counterpart, along with the Isthmian League Premier Division took up the mantle as part of the First Round Qualifying as of the weekend of the 12th September 2009.
Then teams from the Conference North and South entered the FA Cup football betting 2009-2010 fray as of the weekend of the 26th of September2009 so as to determine the pitch events of the FA Cup Second Round Qualifying; affording us the immediate inclusion of teams with their own personal slice of cup history, such as Vauxhall Motors, Blyth Spartans, Havant and Waterlooville and Woking. Third Round Qualifying is next on the agenda, and involves the playing out of 40 fixtures to determine which teams will make it to the final forerunner to the First Round Proper of this year's FA Cup, and are staged on the 10th of October 2009. The 24th of October 2009 heralds the commencement of the Fourth Round Qualifying, whilst the 7th of November 2009 welcomes the First Round Proper and the appearance of teams from the Coca Cola Football League One and Two, when FA Cup football betting 2009-2010 things will really begin to intensify. Save for the Second Round Proper, then it's over to the grand, sweeping entrance of the Coca Cola Championship and Barclays Premier League teams come the Third Round Proper, pencilled in for the weekend of the 2nd January 2010.
Taking a wide angle lens and looking much further ahead (where many would use a crystal ball perhaps), and the key dates for your FA Cup football betting 2009-2010 diary are as follows; Fourth Round proper - 23rd of January 2010, Fifth Round Proper - 13th of February 2010, Sixth Round Proper - 6th of March 2010, FA Cup Semi-Finals - 10th/11th April 2010 and the FA Cup Final itself, scheduled to take place on the 15th of May 2010.