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A Betting Guide to this weeks Main Sporting Events
Football Betting
The FA Cup reaches the quarter final stage this weekend with Chelsea 11/10 favourites to retain the trophy they won in May. The Blues face Stoke City at Stamford Bridge whilst two of their London rivals - Fulham and Tottenham - meet at Craven Cottage. In the other ties, Reading host Aston Villa and Portsmouth face Birmingham.
In the Premier League, Manchester United can continue their title challenge with a win over Wolves at Molineux. Arsenal are 1/7 to beat Burnley and Everton should overcome Hull City at 2/5.
In the Championship, third plays fourth and Nottingham Forest can register a club record tenth consecutive home league win with victory over Swansea City at evens.
There’s an attractive looking tie in La Liga as Real Madrid face Sevilla whilst third place AS Roma host second place AC Milan in Serie A.
Golf Betting
After a week off, the European Tour resumes this week with the Malaysian Open at the Kuala Lumpur Golf Club.
American Anthony Kang is the defending champion at the 49th hosting of this prestigious event, I like the chances of Thongchai Jaidee, twice a winner of this event and in good recent form. Jaidee is available at 9/1.
Many of the leading European players are in action in America this week at the Honda Classic. Paul Casey, Lee Westwood, Padraig Harrington and Sergio Garcia are amongst the European representatives at this high quality Florida event.
Cricket Betting
England continue their tour of Bangladesh this weekend with the third one day international in Chittagong on Friday before they take on Bangladesh A in a tour match starting on Sunday.
One day international series’ between West Indies and Zimbabwe and Australia and New Zealand continue whilst England Women play India Women in a Twenty20 match in Mumbai.
Rugby Union Betting
After the latest round of Six Nations action, it’s a return to domestic competition once again this week.
The big game in the Guinness Premiership is at Welford Road where leaders Leicester take on London Irish. The Exiles have struggled in recent weeks with their 29-14 win over Harlequins last time out their first win in four matches and they are likely to find it tough going against the Tigers.
Second place Northampton have a tricky away match at Sale whilst Saracens should see off Leeds Carnegie.
Just four points separate the top five clubs in a closely contested Magners League with current leaders the Ospreys travelling to fifth place Edinburgh. The two leading Irish sides both travel to Wales with Leinster at the Cardiff Blues and Munster at the Newport-Gwent Dragons.
Rugby League Betting
Wigan are the only Superleague team with a 100% record and the Warriors cemented their position at the top of the table with a crushing 58-0 win over Catalans Dragons on Saturday. Michael Maguire’s side can continue their excellent start to the season with a win over Bradford Bulls on Friday.
Warrington Wolves lead the chasing pack after their excellent 14-10 win at Huddersfield and have a winnable home tie with Crusaders. Leeds Rhinos can bounce back from their disappointing 10-18 defeat to Melbourne Storm in the Carnegie World Club Challenge with a home win over the Harlequins whilst Hull KR host last years’ Grand Final runners-up St Helens.
Tennis Betting
After his success in Dubai last week, Novak Djokovic has a different set of priorities this weekend as the 2010 Davis Cup gets under way. The world number Two leads his Serbia side against the United States in the pick of the ties.
Spain are looking to win the Cup for the third consecutive year and face a Roger Federer-less Switzerland. Elsewhere the ties include France versus Germany and Russia versus India, whilst Sweden host Argentina.
At the Monterrey Open, former world number one Jelena Jankovic is top seed with the Slovak pair of Daniela Hantuchova and Dominika Cibulkova also featuring strongly in the betting.
Horse Racing Betting
The pick of Saturday’s racing comes from Kelso, Newbury and Doncaster.
The Class Two Bluesquare Supporting Greatwood Veterans Handicap Chase and the Grade Three Raymond Mould Supporting Greatwood Gold Cup are the highlights at Newbury, both offering some competitive punting opportunities.
At Kelso there may be some last minute Cheltenham fine tuning, particularly in the Grade Two Totepool Premier Kelso Hurdle.
And at Doncaster, there are some competitive three milers including sportingbet.com Handicap Hurdle and the sportingbet.com Grimthorpe Chase.
