We idolise them on the football field, buy the products they endorse on the TV, read about them in the sports pages, we can’t get enough of them. Then we find out what they’re earning and suddenly we see them in a different light. Yes, modern day professional footballers earn exhuberant wages but did you realise just how rich the very Crème de la Crème of the footballing sphere are? Here at the free bets blog your about to find out, as we introduce the, Top 10 Richest Footballers of 2008 :

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Fundamental flaws have been revealed in each of the prime time, BBC and ITV flagship shows, the X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing over the past weekend. In the case of both, contestants with an outstanding ability, and, in at least one case, the talent to have won, have been ousted in favour of candidates with far less talent. This has left enraged X Factor betting and Strictly Come Dancing betting fans of both of the shows contemplating the dubious value of the public vote.

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This coming Saturday sees the end of the Flat Racing season in this country – or does it? All- weather racing surfaces have been promoted for some time in Britain but there has been much resistance form both trainers and horse racing betting fans to this innovation. Punters were suspicious that trainers and owners were putting forward inferior horses for this kind of racing.

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You have to wonder why, some people do the things they do. A few days ago, Dean McKeown, had his Horse Racing licence revoked. McKeown, was recently banned for 4 years after alledgidly being found to defraud punters by holding horses back in races. He was given special permission to keep racing from the British Horseracing Authority while he appealed against the decision. Then on Monday, Dean McKeown, while riding at Southwell on a horse called, “Rascal in the Mix”, a pre-race favourite, rode the horse home in fifth position.

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Today, America will wake and head in record numbers to the polling station to elect their next President. For John McCain and Barack Obama, after a mammoth 2 years campaigning trail, one man will go onto become the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth.

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All Hail Hamilton – there’s nothing to be said to diminish the massive achievement of this man, who pitted his wits and skill against a crop of excellent rivals and, at the age of 23, came out on top to become the youngest Formula 1 Champion of all time. Ironically, his arch rival, Fernando Alonso had been the previous youngest champion having won the title in 2005 at the age of 24. Hamilton is also the first Afro-Caribbean driver and the first black man to take the top Formula 1 title.

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The other day I came across an old interview in which top flat racing jockey, Frankie Dettori and 13 times champion jump jockey, Tony McCoy, discuss the relative merits of the two horse racing platforms. For me, it’s always been the Flat that’s been the draw. I’ll never forget the days spent on the Heath at Ascot watching a tight pack of horses thunder by with speed and control the only factors determining the outcome - in the same sort of way that they do in Formula 1 racing. The odd occasions I went to a National Hunt meet, half the time my selection fell at an early fence without having the chance to demonstrate its worth.

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This is the big one this Sunday. The final race of the Formula One season and the deciding race on who will lift the coveted Drivers Championship Title. Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton have only 7pts keeping them apart and if Hamilton were to finish the race in any of the top 5 positions then the Championship is his. Seems straight forward … Stay out of trouble, drive a nice clean race, heck you don’t even need to challenge for the top positions, fifth will be fine, and Hamilton will take the silverware. Except, Formula One betting fans are aware that Massa wants that title, Brazil want that title for Massa, Ferrari will do anything to stop Mclaren taking the title and Hamilton, himself, has a habit of schoolboy errors that lead to him blowing important races.

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As the concentration span of modern-day humans diminishes, so we should not be surprised at the arrival of One Day Cricket and then Twenty20. After all, these variations are exciting for cricket betting enthusiasts and why not have events which are purely fun to contrast with the seriousness of County and Test cricket? Then along came the Indian Premier League with big money offers to players who suddenly find themselves drawn to large paydays and then suffer the consequent conflict with their County and long term Test Match responsibilities.

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This Sunday sees The Group A meeting between England and Australia in the Rugby League World Cup. It is very likely just a dress rehearsal for the final unless something drastic was to happen to either of the two competing countries. No doubt both will be battered and bruised from their encounters with New Zealand and Papa New Guinea along the way, but should ease through the group qualifying none-the-less.

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