Archive for the Sky Bet Category
Tags: speedway, world cup
Sky Bet have a wide range of markets ahead of the opening event of the speedway World Cup, which takes place at Vojens in Demark on Saturday.
Poland are Sky Bet’s 10/11 favourites to be crowned world champions but they face tough opposition from reigning champions Denmark, who stand at 9/4 to retain their title. Rob [...]
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Tags: fraizer campbell, steve bruce, sunderland
Steve Bruce is set to making his first signing at the Stadium of Light, having reportedly agreed a fee of £5m with Manchester United for Fraizer Campbell. Sky Bet are offering odds on how the 21-year-old striker will perform at Sunderland and make him 5/2 to be the Black Cats’ top league scorer in 2009/10 [...]
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Tags: halifax, northern rail 9s, rugby league
The Northern Rail 9s tournament gets underway this weekend and Sky Bet make Halifax, who narrowly missed out on a place in the Northern Rail Cup Final the 4/1 favourites to be crowned champions. Featherstone Rovers, who currently sit fourth in the Co-operative Championship table are 5/1 and 2007 Northern Rail Cup runners up Whitehaven [...]
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Tags: manager, southampton, strachan
Sky Bet have cut Gordon Strachan to 1/5 in their next Southampton manager market after taking a flood of money on the former Celtic boss to make a shock return to St Mary’s.
Strachan has been backed down from Sky Bet’s initial offering of 4/1, which was available yesterday afternoon when new Southampton owner Markus Liebherr [...]
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Tags: german grand prix, webber
Weather forecasts suggesting wet conditions for this weekend’s German Grand Prix have sparked strong support for the Red Bull drivers and Sky Bet have cut Mark Webber’s odds of starting on pole to 5/1 (from 7/1).
Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel is 5/4 favourite to take first place on home turf in Germany as he [...]
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Tags: liverpool, ribery
Sky Bet have slashed Franck Ribéry’s odds of joining Liverpool to 8/13, from 66/1, in an astonishing gamble that has taken the Harrogate-based firm by surprise this afternoon. In an unprecedented hour of trading, Ribéry, who last week claimed that he did not intend to move to England, has been backed at all odds down [...]
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Tags: century, first test, pietersen
England’s Kevin Pietersen once again came under criticism after playing a poor shot to be dismissed for 69 in England’s first innings of the first Ashes Test yesterday but Sky Bet are offering 9/2 for the controversial batsman to bounce back with a century in the second innings.
Sky Bet also offer 6/4 for him [...]
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Tags: ashes, first test, in running
It was definitely England’s morning on the second day of the First Test, as Graham Swann (47 not out) and James Anderson helped the home team towards an unexpected first innings total of 435.
Bet in running on the Ashes First Test with Sky Bet and get a free £10 bet.
Australia safely negotiated a potentially tricky [...]
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Tags: newcastle manager, vialli
Gianluca Vialli has been the subject of a surprise gamble today to succeed Alan Shearer as Newcastle manager. Sky Bet received a flurry of requests for odds on the Italian taking over at St James’ Park and he is now 4/1 second favourite behind Shearer (2/7) to lead the Magpies into the Championship next month.
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Tags: john terry, manchester city
Chelsea are the focus of transfer betting activity today and Sky Bet report a number of market moves for players to join and leave the Stamford Bridge club this summer.
Despite the club claiming that John Terry is going nowhere, money continues to come in for the Blues skipper to sign for Manchester City and Sky [...]
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