Today sees the most important game of England’s World cup, a showdown against the old enemy, Germany. Since that historic win in ‘66, the Germans have enjoyed the spoils at all the major footballing events. Alas, this success normally comes about because of England’s inability to win a penalty shoot-out.

To acknowledge, or even celebrate, this fact, Coral are offering a great bet. Should you place your money on Germany to progress on the back of a penalty shootout, Coral will refund your bet if no shoot-out takes place. Should England win via a shoot-out? You might be too happy to care about your bet! Besides, Coral are offering a free £10 bet if you create an account with them today. Win – Win!

Coral also have England as slight favourites to win inside 90 minutes, which we are all hoping they do!

England Germany Match Odds

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It’s not often that one can look at the tennis and think ‘WOW’, but many today are doing just that as news of the epic clash between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut spreads. The match, which started on Tuesday, will hopefully be completed on Court 18 today.

With the scorebord unable to keep up, the players were deadlocked at an astonishing 59 all in the fith and final set. Isner had taken the first set, and Mahut won the next two, before Isner claimed the fourth. While the crowd applauded the two men off, many were unable to pick an eventual winner. It appears that the bookies can’t do it either with Paddypower offering the same odds on both players.

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The draw has been made for next week’s WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIPS and Murray could meet Nadal in the semis and Federer in the final. But with all three men succumbing to unexpected defeats in their grass court warm-up events, is this the year of the outsider?

As expected, Federer has been installed as this year’s number 1 seed, with Nadal as 2nd. Djokovic and Murray make up the third and fourth seeds respectively. Despite being 3rd seed, Djokovic has been installed at 16/1 to win the championships by Totesport. Unsurprisingly Federer is the heavy favourite at 5/4, while Nadal is at odds of 2/1 to lift the trophy this year.

Selection	Odds		Selection	Odds
R Federer	5/4		L Hewitt	40/1
R Nadal	2/1		M Cilic	50/1
A Murray	7/1		S Querrey	50/1
A Roddick	14/1		J Tsonga	66/1
R Soderling	14/1		E Gulbis	66/1
N Djokovic	16/1		F Verdasco	100/1
T Berdych	33/1		N Davydenko	125/1

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This weekend sees the next installment of rugby internationals between northern and southern hemisphere sides. The day’s action kicks off with New Zealand taking on Wales, followed by Australia against England and South Africa versus Italy. The final game on Saturday sees Argentina take on Scotland in what will prove to be a bruising encounter.

Paddypower have a book open for each of these games, where the southern teams are heavy favourites, that also includes some tasty handicap betting.

Time	Teams	Home	Draw	Away
08:35	New Zealand v Wales	1/20	45/1	9/1
11:00	Australia v England	1/6	25/1	7/2
14:00	South Africa v Italy	1/100	125/1	30/1
19:45	Argentina v Scotland	2/5	22/1	15/8

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English World Cup adventures are usually marred with some controversy, where inevitably some poor sod is made an unwilling scapegoat. Normally we must wait until the knockout stages before this occurs, but the hapless Rob Green has provided us with our moment in only the first game.   

Following his absolute howler against the USA, Rob Green now looks likely to be dropped from the English starting eleven to face Algeria. While no one likes to see such a costly mistake happen to any goalkeeper, especially at the World Cup, it will be difficult for Fabio Capello to justify his inclusion in the next game. This possible inclusion has been made significantly more difficult by the, albeit expected, media backlash. Alas, this orgy of jounalistic criticism seems to be par for the course on the back pages of the tabloids and know doubt, this too will weigh on the mind of Capello.

That said, we fully expect David James to start between the sticks for England on their next outing against Algeria. Ladbrokes make James favourite to start, with the odds currently standing at 5/4. They are also offering a free £25 bet to anyone who opens a new account and deposits £5!

Odds to start against Algeria

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Tonight sees the Irish team, minus a few of their bigger names, take on the Barbarians at Thomond Park. In what promises to be anything but a friendly match, Coral Bookmakers have the Barbarians as heavy favourites. This could be due to Declan Kidney’s using the summer friendlies to test the entire squad in preparation for next year’s 6 Nations and World Cup, or simply because Irish Rugby hasn’t been as strong in 2010 as it was in 2009.

Match Odds

Ireland           5/4

Draw                18/1

Barbarians     8/13

Take advantage of Coral Bookmakers free £10 bet offer and place a bet today. Personally I think that the Irish might just have enough to take this one!

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Why not try your hand at the exciting world of spread betting? Currently there are great odds on who will finish in the bottom three of Super League XV with Bethilo. With spread betting the potential to win is great, as too is the potential to lose, so be careful.

A £5 bet on Catalans to come dead last will net you £55, not much when you consider that you stand to lose £195 if they manage to turn their season around. Conversely betting £5 on Hull KR to be in the bottom three at the end of the season could earn you up to £245.

England are just 2/9 for a 2-0 series whitewash of Bangladesh as cricket’s Test summer gets underway today.

Despite noticeable improvements being made by the Bangladesh team since their last tour of England Paddy Power still anticipate the series being a runfest for the home side and are betting on who will score a ton in England’s first innings at Lords today. Kevin Pietersen is 11/4 to reach triple figures with openers Strauss and Cook both 10/3.

Eoin Morgan, set to make his Test debut following a starring role in England’s World Cup winning T20 performance, is 5/1 to make a century in the first innings on his home ground.

Paddy Power are also betting on who scores the most Test runs for England over the six matches to be played against Bangladesh and Pakistan. Kevin Pietersen is the 13/8 favourite to continue his Caribbean form followed by returning captain Andrew Strauss at 5/2. Having been rested for the first two Tests of the summer versus Bangladesh Paul Collingwood is out at 33/1.

Darren Haines, spokesman for Paddy Power, said: “At 50/1 ON for a series win no pundits are going to score points predicting an England victory so the question is who is going to knock up the most runs and a rejuvenated Kevin Pietersen looks well set to do that.”

Top England Test Batsman This Summer (v Bangladesh & Pakistan)
13/8 Pietersen
5/2 Strauss
11/4 Cook
7/1 Trott
8/1 Bell
14/1 Morgan
33/1 Collingwood
50/1 Prior
150/1 Bresnan
200/1 Swann
1000/1 Bar

England v Bangladesh Series

Series Betting
1/50 England
9/1 Draw
20/1 Bangladesh

Correct Series Score
7/2 England 1-0
2/9 England 2-0
28/1 Draw 0-0
12/1 Draw 1-1
40/1 Bangladesh 1-0
150/1 Bangladesh 2-0

Top Series Runscorer
9/4 Pietersen
7/2 Cook
7/2 Strauss
11/2 Trott
11/2 Bell
7/1 Morgan
12/1 Prior
50/1 Bresnan
66/1 Swann
200/1 Bar

1st Test Betting
1/12 England
6/1 Draw
20/1 Bangladesh

Top England 1st Innings Runscorer
3/1 Pietersen
7/2 Cook
4/1 Strauss
9/2 Trott
6/1 Bell
7/1 Morgan
10/1 Prior
28/1 Bresnan
33/1 Swann
66/1 Bar

Top England 1st Innings Wicket Taker
2/1 Anderson
9/4 Swann
3/1 Bresnan
4/1 Finn
11/2 Shahzad

To Make A 1st Innings Century
11/4 KP
10/3 Cook
10/3 Strauss
4/1 Trott
9/2 Bell
5/1 Morgan

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For some reason Salford City Reds seem to have been neglected, but we’ll keep you updated should that change.

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Paddy Power have promised to refund losing bets on England’s opening World Cup game against the USA if the Three Lions’ main man Wayne Rooney scores at ANY time of the match.

Having had a storming season at Manchester United with 26 league goals and a Player of the Year Award double, Rooney is unquestionably England’s biggest weapon in their hopes for a first World Cup since 1966. Certainly with 9 goals in his last 12 England games Rooney also appears to be England coach Fabio Capello’s Plan A in their quest for glory.

The offer applies to losing correct score, first/last scorer, and scorecast single bets.

Paddy Power said: “A goal from Wayne in England’s first match will have the whole country celebrating and such has been his form for club and country this season I think it could be a case of Money-Back when rather than if Rooney scores!”

England v USA – Roo Beauty

If Wayne Rooney scores at ANY TIME Paddy Power will refund all losing first/last goalscorer, correct score & scorecast singles on the match.

Terms & Conditions: Applies to 1st/last goalscorer, correct score and scorecast singles placed before kick-off only. Max Refund €/£100 per customer/bet. Paddy Power football rules apply.

PADDY POWER ENGLAND BETTING

6/1 England to win the World Cup

England v USA
1/2 England
3/1 Draw
11/2 USA

Rooney Betting
Evs To score anytime v USA
7/2 To score first goal of the match v USA
18/1 To score a hat-trick v USA
11/1 To be Top Tournament goalscorer
14/1 To be Player of the Tournament

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