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Are Manchester United already champions this season?

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Paddy Power have already paid out early on Manchester United to win the Premier League, signalling their confidence that there is no way that Manchester City can catch them up now.

Manchester United won 2-0 against Everton at the weekend while Manchester City slumped to a 3-1 defeat at Southampton on Monday. It could possibly transcend that the pivotal moment of the season may have even been before it started with Sir Alex Ferguson signing Robin Van Persie. The striker has already bagged 19 goals this season and in a recent interview even suggested that his performances certainly have room for improvement.

Change will be demanded at Manchester City. Roberto Mancini has already threatened his players that he will drop them if they are not “ready to fight”. The club now face Leeds in the next round of the FA Cup and will be keen to avoid further embarrassment. Paddy Power are attempting to soften the fans of Manchester City with a free £5 bet for those who backed their club to win the Premiership.
Paddy Power are one of the leading bookmakers, however use punters can compare other betting sites using mybettingsites.co.uk.

Sports betting on the rise

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Latest reports from the sports betting and online casino industry conclude that sports’ betting is on the rise. Here we will look at some of major trends that are affecting sports betting revenues.
Mobile sports betting is having a significant impact on the market and is changing the whole demographic of sports bettors by bringing in a much younger group of participants. The ability to make bets at any time, in any place and to stay current with up to the minute information is a big attraction.

In play betting is another expanding area and new technology has improved user experience considerably. It is particularly applicable to specific sports, but there have been occasions in recent times where it has gained a tarnished reputation because of corruption. However it seems to have recovered from that and is trending upwards.

Both the Olympics and Euro 2012 have had a large positive effect on the market even though all the bets on who would light the cauldron at the opening ceremony were refunded. However, while betting on Olympic sports generated significant revenues, there was also a negative effect on other forms of sports betting with some operators reporting an overall dip in revenues.

Sports betting is increasingly being seen as an alternative to speculating on the stock exchange. Many of today’s sports betters are highly sophisticated and are finding that they can make more money from that than they can from more conventional investments.

Horse racing is one area of sports betting that is currently in decline. It seems that the principal problem is the inability to attract young people to the horse racing scene. British Horse racing has made several attempts to do so, but have fallen at every hurdle. It seems that horse racing simply does not appeal to the younger generation, and the reason is that probably there are just too many alternatives on offer.

Last year saw sports betting revenues rise to £800 million, and it seems that the rising trend is set to continue for the foreseeable future.

With the Cheltenham Gold Cup edging closer and closer would you like to check out the latest betting odds and news surrounding the event? Make sure you check out Betfair today!

Gheorghe Hagi at 48th aniversary

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Gheorghe Hagi, the best Romanian footballer of all time and also one of the best players from the football history, celebrates his 48th anniversary. Hagi has won three consecutive titles with  Steaua Bucuresti between 1986 – 1989 as well as twice the Romanian Cup. He has also won  European Super Cup in 1986 with the same team.
During his time in Spain he has won two Super Cup trophies, one with Real Madrid and the other one with FC Barcelona.

In 1996 Hagi signed for Galatasaray Istambul and has won all possible trophy with the Turkish team till he retired in 2001:  four consecutive league titles, two cups, two super cups, one UEFA Cup and one European Super Cup.
Gheorghe Hagi has won Romanian’s “Player of the Year” award seven times. He still holds the goal scoring record for the Romanian National team with 35 goals.

Another bad injury, this time at basketball

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Last night, during the  basketball game between Houston Rockets and Charlotte Bobcats from Houston a player was taken off the field on a stretcher after suffering a concussion!
After a trivial counterattack of the Rockets ended whit Chandler Parsons’s shot, a Bobcats player was lying on the floor.

What happened? The injured player, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, collided with his teammate Jeffrey Taylor, trying to stop Houston’s riposte. When Taylor hit Kidd-Gilchrist in the head with his knee the player crashed on the floor unconscious  and the medical stuff immobilized his neck and took him out. It seems like he spent the night at the hospital but the tomography results were not made public.

Galatasaray sign Wesley Sneijder

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After almost two weeks of negotiations, Wesley Sneijder was transferred from Inter Milan to the Turkish club Galatasaray.

The Turkish giants payed €7.5 millions for the Dutch midfielder, who won the treble with Inter in 2010. Sneijder will receive €5.5 millions a year for the next three and a half years, with only €500.000 less than he was payed by the Italian club.

Sneijder’s future at Inter was in doubt after the player refused to accept the wage cut. Unfortunately for him there were not too many clubs interested in signing him and that’s because of two factors.  The first one and the most important was his salary demands. There are not too many clubs who could afford to pay his salary.

The second one is that his form has continuously decreased since 2010. That’s why in 2011 Manchester United offered €40 millions for him and now only Galatasaray were indeed interested in signing him. There are more football betting lines (click here) at Topbet.eu.

Even so Sneijder considered that this is not a back step for him. In a press conference held in Istambul, the new Galatasaray player explained the reason for choosing this team and revealed the two key figures in his football career. Jose Mourinho and Louis van Gaal influenced him in reaching this decision: “They both said the same thing: go!”

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