World Cup Betting

Five Goalscorers To Follow At The 2010 World Cup

The Golden Shoe – the prize awarded to the top goal scorer at a World Cup Finals – is often the most prestigious award outside actually winning the tournament. Such great players as Gary Lineker, Ronaldo, Davor Suker, Hristo Stoichkov, Garrincha, Eusebio and Gerd Muller have been previous recipients of the award and with dozens of high quality strikers heading to South Africa in 2010, this summer’s Golden Shoe market is wide open.

Here are five strikers to follow in South Africa. (more…)

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World Cup 2010 – Form Guide

The most recent set of international fixtures will have been the last chance for players to impress their coaches ahead of 23 man squads being named for the 2010 World Cup. With less than a hundred days until kick off in South Africa, it is timely to have a look at the form of some of 2010’s leading contenders.

Spain – 4/1 favourites

Spain cemented their position as worthy World Cup favourites by recording their ninth consecutive win with their comfortable 2-0 triumph over France in Paris. (more…)

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Spain are one of the perennial underachievers on football’s biggest stage. Despite boasting some of the biggest club sides and best players in the history of the sport, they haven’t progressed beyond the quarter final stage of a World Cup finals since they finished fourth way back in 1950.

However, all could change in 2010. Spain arrive in South Africa as European champions and with a 100% qualifying record and the pre-tournament favourites are fancied to finally break their World Cup hoodoo this summer. Here are four reasons why Spain are the 4/1 favourites to triumph in South Africa. (more…)

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Betting Guide - England’s Stage of Elimination

South Africa 2010 will be England’s thirteenth appearance at the World Cup finals. Will it prove to be lucky as Fabio Capello’s men emulate the team of 1966, or will it prove to be unlucky and see the Three Lions eliminated at the first hurdle for the first time since 1958?
Here’s our look at England’s past World Cup performances with odds on them repeating such a performance in 2010. (more…)

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World Cup 2010 - A Simulation

With the World Cup just three months away, the team behind the leading football game Championship Manager have recently decided to simulate the entire tournament, from start to finish.

Featuring the thirty two teams, correct squads and formations, the team set about playing all sixty four matches of the 2010 World Cup in full to try and determine who would triumph. If the actual tournament pans out in the same way, there will be plenty of opportunities to profit on your betting…. (more…)

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