In-form Wayne Rooney sees no reason why England shouldn’t win all of their remaining World Cup qualifying matches and the Three Lions are now 7/2 (from 7/1) with Sky Bet to pick up maximum points. Fabio Capello’s side are now 4/6 (from 5/4) to remain undefeated in their qualifying campaign, which resumes in April next year.
Rooney, who scored twice to secure victory over Belarus on Wednesday, taking his tally to five goals in his last three internationals, is 5/6 to score over 9.5 goals in qualifying.
Steven Gerrard, who opened the scoring in Minsk, was given a much needed confidence boost and Sky Bet quote 11/8 that he starts all of England’s remaining qualifiers.
A single goal cost a Super 6 player £100,000 on Saturday, after he correctly predicted five out of six scorelines, falling foul of the Scunthorpe-Crewe result.
Gordon Kerr of Bo’ness, Scotland, predicted Nigel Adkins’ men would win 2-0 at Glanford Park but a header from Izzy Iriekpen in the 80th minute saw the Iron net a third goal, sending them to the top of the League One table but depriving Kerr of the Super 6 £100k jackpot! Kerr did, however, pick up the weekly prize of £5,000.
As West Ham plunge further into crisis the club have admitted that they will need to shed players in the January transfer window and Sky Bet are offering odds on who will be the first player sold, with injury prone Dean Ashton heading the market at 6/4. Goalkeeper Robert Green is 3/1 second favourite to be shipped out first, with Matthew Upson quoted at 5/1 and Scott Parker at 7/1.
Sky Bet have cut the Hammers’ odds of playing Championship football next season from 12/1 to 8/1. Currently lying 6th in the table with 12 points, their odds of a top-half finish have lengthened to evens from 5/6 (4/5 bottom half finish). Sky Bet offer 5/6 that the Upton Park side accrue over 46.5 points in the league this season.
West Ham could be hit with a compensation payout of over £30 million over the Carlos Tevez affair. Currently on a two year loan deal, Tevez is 4/7 still to be a Red Devils player at the start of next season and 5/4 to have left the club.
Champagne corks were popping in Pontefract on Sunday after a 91st minute Celtic goal translated into a £148,818.01 payday for one lucky Sky Bet customer.
The shrewd customer won the princely sum from just a £10 football accumulator by successfully predicting the winner of no less than thirteen Scottish football matches.
And the late goal at Parkhead wasn’t the only stroke of luck for the punter. Stenhousemuir goalkeeper, Kieron Renton, saved a last-gasp penalty, not only ensuring victory for his team but also keeping the accumulator running.
Sky Bet’s Head of PR, Helen Jacob, said, “We were still celebrating Hull’s victory over Arsenal late Saturday evening but we were soon brought back down to earth when the winning accumulator first came to light. It was certainly the customer’s lucky day with an extra time winner for Celtic and a penalty save by Stenhousemuir. The £149,000 is an incredible payout but a just reward for the amazing feat of predicting 13 winners.”
Last Saturday saw a record number of people play Soccer Saturday’s Super 6 predictor game and an incredible 15 customers managed to predict five correct scores; just one short of winning the jackpot of £100,000. All 15 managed to predict all the correct results bar that of the Middlesbrough v West Brom game, which finished 1-0 to the Baggies.
Steve Lawless from Essex, who predicted a 1-1 scoreline at the Riverside, can count himself particularly unlucky, having guessed five out six scores correctly and if Middlesbrough had converted one of their twenty-eight shots on goal he would have been the first person to scoop the £100,000 jackpot. Steve did, however, pick up the weekly £5000 prize by predicting the Golden Goal would be scored on ten minutes and Djibril Cisse duly obliged.
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