Premier League Betting 2011-2012
The 2011-2012 Barclays Premier League is the 20th edition of the Premier League and concludes two decades of English football since its revolutionary restructuring in 1992.
Having lifted their 19th English league title at the end of last season Manchester United go into this season as defending champions. Championship winners Queens Park Rangers, runners-up Norwich City and play-off victors Swansea City were all promoted to the Premier League, the latter becoming the first ever Welsh team to play Premier League football.
Ever since Manchester United were crowned champions in 2011 new markets were formed and Premier League betting 2011-2012 began. As ever Premier League Betting markets are vast and varied with punters able to wager on everything from title winners to relegation victims.
Premier League Winner Betting 2011-2012
Manchester United were installed as the pre-season red-hot favourites in the Premier League Betting 2011-2012. They began the season by justifying that tag but were halted in their tracks by a rampant Manchester City at the end of October. At which point Roberto Mancini's side assumed the position of Premier League betting 2011-2012 title favourites and have never looked back. Andre Villas-Boas is still trying to find his feet at Chelsea and now the height of The Blues' ambitions will be to achieve a top-four finish. Instead it is Tottenham who have now emerged as the most likely title challengers from the capital, the Premier Legaue winner betting 2011-2012 odds reflecting this.
It was a case of more of the same from Arsenal last season as a promising start to the campaign wilted away as the finishing line drew closer. Punters are clearly losing patience with Arsene Wenger and his men and as such Manchester City overtook the Gunners in the pre-season Premier League Betting 2011-2012. Now the best that The Gunners can hope for is a top four finish as they battle for one Champions League place with both Liverpool and Chelsea. Spurs look set to return to the Champions League for next season so it is now down to one place between three. The battle for fourth place could be just as intriguing as the race for the title and battle to avoid relegation this season.
Premier League Relegation Betting 2011-2012
Inevitably it was the three promoted teams, Swansea, Norwich and QPR that were made early favourites in the Premier League Relegation Betting 2011-2012. However, Norwich and Swansea have enjoyed a promising first half of the season and are more than holding their own in the top flight, both sides look well on their way to securing their top-flight status. QPR, however, have not been as impressive and despite a good start a run of successive defeats led to the Rangers board sacking manager Neil Warnock and replacing him with Mark Hughes. Will the decision prove enough to stave off relegation?
Wigan completed a miraculous escape from the relegation zone on the final day of last season but went into this season as one of the Premier League Betting 2011-2012 favourites for relegation. And so far this season they have justified that tag with a lack of consistency proving to be their ultimate downfall. Blackburn Rovers and Bolton are also odds-on for the drop as managers Steve Kean and Owen Coyle come under increasing pressure from supporters.
Premier League Betting Markets
Being one of, if not the, most popular betting league in the world naturally means that the Premier League has the most diverse and vast range of markets at the most competitive odds. The obvious outright markets being Premier League Betting 2011-2012 on which side will win the league and which teams will be relegated. However, there are also many markets that cover things in between, from Premier League top goalscorer betting, and top 4 finish betting to PFA Player of the Year betting and head-to-head match betting.
Individual matches can have a combined total of up to 200 betting markets available for punters to divulge in. The most popular, of course, being the match odds markets and goals betting but there are also many betting markets available on events such as the number of corners or bookings in a game, whether a penalty will be taken or how a specific player will perform. Premier League betting continues to grow year on year and there is no doubt that this season will see its stock rise even farther.