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Premier League Betting
PREMIER LEAGUE BETTING ODDS
To win; click best odds bold:
| Bet365 | Betfred |
Stan James | BetVictor | Paddy Power | William Hill |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAN CITY | 4/6 | 4/6 |
4/6 | 8/11 | 8/11 | 8/11 |
| MAN UTD | 7/5 | 6/4 |
13/10 | 11/8 | 11/8 | 5/4 |
| TOTTENHAM | 14/1 | 14/1 |
14/1 | 12/1 | 14/1 | 14/1 |
| CHELSEA | 150/1 | 100/1 |
100/1 | 100/1 | 66/1 | 80/1 |
| ARSENAL | 500/1 | - |
250/1 | 300/1 | 300/1 | 150/1 |
| NEWCASTLE | - | 250/1 |
- | - | - | 400/1 |
| LIVERPOOL | 500/1 | 500/1 |
300/1 | 400/1 | 400/1 | 500/1 |
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Other Premier League teams at bigger odds, if quoted at all. See bookies websites. Each-way bet place terms: Win Only. |
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PREMIER LEAGUE RELEGATION BETTING
Odds for team to go down:
| Bet365 | Betfred |
Stan James | BetVictor | Paddy Power | William Hill |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WIGAN | 1/5 | 2/9 |
1/5 | 1/5 | 1/4 | 2/9 |
| BLACKBURN | 4/5 | 8/11 |
8/13 | 8/11 | 4/5 | 4/5 |
| BOLTON | 4/5 | 4/6 |
8/13 | 8/11 | 5/6 | 5/6 |
| WOLVES | 5/6 | 1/1 |
1/1 | 1/1 | 5/6 | 10/11 |
| QPR | 21/10 | 7/4 |
5/2 | 9/4 | 21/10 | 7/4 |
| SWANSEA | 8/1 | 13/2 |
6/1 | 7/1 | 6/1 | 13/2 |
| WEST BROM | 16/1 | 9/1 |
12/1 | 12/1 | 10/1 | 10/1 |
| NORWICH | 18/1 | 14/1 |
11/1 | 14/1 | 10/1 | 12/1 |
| EVERTON | 20/1 | 20/1 |
25/1 | 20/1 | 20/1 | 16/1 |
| ASTON VILLA | 28/1 | 20/1 |
16/1 | 25/1 | 20/1 | 16/1 |
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Other teams available at longer odds to be relegated. See bookies websites. |
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Man City favourites in Premier
League betting odds
Historically Manchester United have the best Premiership record of any team and they were the bookies strong favourites for this 2011/2012 season. Ultimately they wrapped up last season's title with the minimum of fuss but since their 6-1 drubbing at the hands of arch-rivals Manchester City in the third week of October, it has been City who have been favourites in the Premier League betting.
Manchester City spent £120million assembling a star-studded squad and then strengthened the team further this season. They won the FA Cup last year but could not quite hack it with the big two in the Premier Title chase. They are a coming force and after that famous victory over Man Utd already have both eyes and one hand on the Premier League title trophy.
Chelsea bid to add to their 2009/2010 season Premiership title win. They were second favourites for this season before a ball was kicked but are now out to huge odds. They were beaten by Liverpool on November 20 and that signalled a major drift in their odds, turning the race into a two horse affair according to the bookies.
Arsenal got to quite short betting odds at one point to win last season's Premiership Title but ultimately their Premier League wheels came flying off and they completely lost the plot towards the end. They started this season in the same poor form but since then a revival has taken place. It will be too little too late and the title is looking a forlorn hope.
Tottenham and Liverpool are the only other teams with any sort of chance of bustling up the favourites in the betting. But, despite some good results for Liverpool, they are playing catch up and it will not be happening for them this year. Tottenham, though, have a better chance and are into third favourites, albeit at pretty big betting odds to actually win the Premier League.
If the bookies know anything then the rest of the Premiership have no hope at all as betting odds are no longer being quoted on anybody else.
Man Utd's 70% Premier
League strike-rate
It is no surprise that Manchester United start favourites in the 2011/2012 Premier League betting. The club's phenomenal success in the Premiership cannot have gone unnoticed by anyone resident on planet earth, as they notched their 19th Premier title win when they took the League last season (2010/2011). The Premier League season runs from August to May and comprises twenty teams who will each play a total of thirty eight games.
Manchester United have a staggering success rate of almost 70% since the Premier League came into existence in 1992. Any potential Premiership punter should bear this vital stat in mind.
Any punters looking for decent odds in the premiership betting for the overall winner will usually have to place their bets early, before the League actually starts to get odds greater than 13/8 on the team that have almost made the Premier League their own. The Premier League may feel like an old friend who has been around for ages but, if you check the record books, you will discover that it all began as recently as 1992. While the Premier League may be relatively young, it has been going long enough for players to have changed completely, and for the appetite for Premier League betting to grow massively. Fortunately, truly great managers have far greater longevity than the players they manage.
Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United team asserted themselves strongly from the very inception of the Premier League back in 1992. They won the first two Premier League titles and four of the first five in the 1990s. They have managed to maintain a firm hold on the championship ever since and have only once failed to hold the title in the Premiership for more than a year.
Considering the undisputable dominance of Manchester United, it is almost an achievement that as many as three other teams have snatched the Premiership title from them. Blackburn Rovers took the championship just once, back in 1995. Arsenal and Chelsea have both managed more than one win.
Bearing in mind Manchester United's dominance, the bigger surprise was that Chelsea started as virtual co-favourites in the Premier League betting for 2009-2010. Ok, Chelsea are now a particularly potent force to be reckoned with but, at the start of the tournament, didn't bookmakers factor in the statistics in favour of Manchester United in the Premiership betting? Whatever happened subsequently, making Chelsea virtual co-favourites seemed less than generous.
Just to set the scene, it is worth remembering that in August 2009, both Manchester United and Chelsea were being offered at approximately 3-1 in the Premiership betting while Liverpool were third favourite at odds of 5-1. Arsenal came next in the betting with odds around the 10-1 mark on offer with online bookmakers.
So how do you make money on Premiership betting? The short answer is, if you have a strong view on one of the big four teams contesting the championship, bet early. If you would like to take a cautious approach, you can have a moderate bet on your selection (having done your homework on them thoroughly) before the Premier League commences and you can always follow up with another bet, further on in the season if you become uncertain about your selection's chances.
Successfully selecting the overall winner is, of course, just one small facet of the multi million pound business of Premier League betting. As with other leagues, betting goes far beyond the specific results of individual matches played. In a league populated with star strikers, the source of goals scored is always an interesting option for punters with views on the form of the individuals concerned.
The popularity of the Premiership commands massive sums for television rights. The 2010 Premier League winner should receive a minimum of £59 million in prize money and television rights payments. Other top drawer Premier League clubs are promised at least £39 million. The sums exchanging hands are indicative of the colossal appeal of the Premiership, and millions of viewers means millions of punters betting on the Premier League.
The Premier League has become a contest provoking global interest. Overseas television rights contracts for 2010 to 2013 have been reported as being worth well over one billion pounds. As a result, Premier League clubs will be given an additional seven to eight million pounds each season.
So how and why did the Premier League get created? The 1980s were such a low point for football that the difficult decade eventually verged on the subterranean. A lack of investment led to increasingly dilapidated stadiums. Decaying surroundings may or may not have contributed to a growing trend of football hooliganism but one thing is for sure - they certainly didn't help.
English teams were excluded from Europe following the death of nearly forty fans at the Heysel Stadium in Belgium. English fans were condemned as the culprits as the disaster took place prior to Liverpool taking on Juventus in the European Cup final in 1985. The Football Association wrung its hands as borders were effectively closed, both in and out of England, as fans were contained within their own country in the continent of Europe and England became a no go area for the world's most talented football players looking to ply their trade abroad.
If 1985 was disastrous, 1989 was absolutely catastrophic. The image of football had been ineffably tarnished by Heysel. And then events at Hillsborough absolutely annihilated it. The FA Cup semi final that was contested by Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough became a scene of utter carnage. The collapse of a wall (under pressure from fans) resulted in nearly one hundred deaths and half as many again injured.
Lord Justice Taylor produced a report outlining the need to re-address the fundamental methods of running football stadia. It was his report that led to the most welcome introduction of all seated stadiums. All football clubs were confronted with the unwelcome reality that they would have to absorb huge costs to implement the improvements suggested by Taylor. The biggest clubs were able to stage a potent protest. It was that protest that led to the formation of the Premier League and the ever increasing volumes of money changing hands on Premiership betting.
In 1991 an agreement was signed setting out the principles for the formation of the Premier League. A year later, top clubs resigned in numbers from there current leagues to join it. Sky TV were the big beneficiaries as they paid handsomely to secure the viewing rights for the first five years. They parted with nearly 200 million pounds to secure them.
Why not join the big television companies and profit from football? If you are going to watch the matches anyway (and the viewing figures suggest that millions will), it makes for a more exhilarating experience if you put money on your opinions by partaking of the various odds available in Premier League betting, and if you get it right you can combine pleasure with profit.
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