Archive for December 28th, 2006

Fancy those novelty bets?

X-Factor winner costs bookies £1 million

A spokesperson for Ladbrokes bookmakers says that the UK betting industry has lost close to £1 million on X-Factor winner Leona after she gained the Christmas number one.

William Hill Bookmaker also called the result a ‘disaster’ and said that it would not be taking bets on the chart number one next year.

I personally have a pet peeve regarding fake, “media construct” performers and cannot blame Will Hill taking this stance and I am confident others will follow suit.

Get a life guys – bet on something REALLY entertaining like Pinnacle Sports’ great line on the burning of Sweden’s Gavle Goat (now closed – the goat survived)

…or Paddy Power’s line on Chocolate giant Cadbury’s launch of a new brand of chewing gum in the UK next year (Trident). Wrigley’s currently hold 98% of the UK market – you get to bet on Trident’s % market share by YE 2007. (15%+ has odds of 9/4)

Now that’s what I call novelty betting.

Mike 

 

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CHELSEA to spend £18m for defender

After yesterday’s announcement from Roman Abramovich that Chelsea would be spending less money in the market … it appears that Chelsea are ready to table an £18m bid for Manchester City defender Micah Richards.

According to the Daily Star, Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho will move quickly to sign the young defender to solve his growing defensive crisis.

With John Terry out for up to six weeks with a back injury, and Khalid Boulahrouz yet to convince, Chelsea have shipped six goals in their last four matches, form that is not acceptable for a team that has built their title successes on a solid defence.

So … Chelsea’s responsible money management approach lasted about 48 hours … as they are quickly back-tracking on their youth policy and appear to be using Russian owner Roman Abramovich’s Platinum credit card to buy their way out of an injury crisis ..
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