Football Bet

Now I love the Football league! Being a Palace fan, (yes someone has to be I suppose) I’m used to life in this league. Its a fantastic league and the forthcoming season will provide plenty of cheers and tears for club’s fans. There will be no shortage of stunning goals, crunching tackles and epic matches. The gulf between the Premiership and Championship is vast in terms of quality of football and wealth, however this I why I love the league so much.

The Premiership is fantastic but I believe there is to much money, comfort and egos in the league. The Championship isn’t much better, but you do still get a sense of real tough football and realize how much football means to fans of lower league clubs. There’s nothing glamorous about playing Doncaster Rover’s away but I love it!

So this is for those fans who want to bet on their Championship club. Next week I will be previewing league 1&2.

The Championship

The league is so open resulting in very good betting odds for all teams pre season so get those bets down early. Derby are rejoining the league this season after a awful season in the Premiership, along with Birmingham and Reading. All will be looking to jump straight back up, and with the parachute payments they will receive, all will have the funds to spend in the transfer market.

QPR (6/1 888sport) are the new Chelsea of the league having been heavily invested in by the Mittal family, Bernie Eccelstone and Flavio Briatore. They have the money to buy some big players and manager Iain Dowie will be determined to win the league and take the club to the Premiership for the first time in 11 years.

Birmingham City, also priced at 6/1 to win the league, should be competing at the top end of the league with manager Alex Mclesih at the helm. They have also signed Marcus Bent from Charlton and will be a difficult team to beat next season.

Reading will be one of the favourites to win the league and at 8/1 with bet 365 aren’t a bad shout. Any team with Steve Coppell in charge has a chance.

Crystal Palace (11/1 should be challenging at the top end of the league with a manager who knows how to get promoted. Winning the league will be difficult but Palace have the players to do it.

Least favourites to win the league are Blackpool (100/1) who were promoted from league 1 last season. Bristol City were a newly promoted side last year and weren’t far from 1st place, finishing third. This is a league where anything is possible so I would rule any teams out.

Leave a comment below letting us know who you think will be crowned champions of the Championship, and make sure to check back next week for a betting preview for leagues 1 and 2.

Christiano Ronaldo is at the centre of one of the biggest transfer stories since David Beckham’s move to Real Madrid in 2003. Many betting firms are placing bets on whether he will be playing in a United shirt at the end of the season after Real Madrid clearly want the star to move to the Bernabeu. The worlds finest player has yet to comment on whether he will quit Old Trafford, but recently he agreed with the comment that modern football player’s have become “slave’s” which suggests United are forcing him to stay.

United fans will be desperate to keep their star but many believe he will fulfil his dream move to Spain. It seems that the Portuguese winger wants to leave after he has constantly stated that moving to Real Madrid is his “dream move”. Bookies odds look like this:

Sky Bet are pretty sure Ronaldo will not make the first game of the season as they price him at 11/10 to be a Real Madrid.

Ladbrokes price him being at United for the first game of the season with 8/15 odds.

Personally I think he will leave. The small comments he has made regarding his future point in the direction of a move to Madrid. If he does go it will be a shame to lose such a talented player, and I’m sure Match of the Day’s entertainment value every Saturday night will decrease. Many fans, however, will be glad to see the back of him, as his apparent arrogant personality and play acting antics have only earned him more dislike from rival fans.

Let us know where you think he will go by leaving a comment below!