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England skipper & Alex Curran new favourites to split

Steven Gerrard is just 11/8 with Paddy Power to no longer be a Liverpool player next season.  The England skipper was keen to avoid discussion of his future while on World Cup duty but will not be able to avoid the speculation much longer, particularly with new boss Roy Hodgson taking the reins at Anfield.

The Summer of Soccer may be over for English fans, but there is another World Cup that will be making history this week. On Thursday July 1st next, the Electronic Sports World Cup Grand Final will begin at the Disney's Newport Bay Club, and Paddy Power will be taking bets on one of the 10 tournaments being played, Counterstrike: Source.

England are favourites to make the World Cup final according to Paddy Power.

However it’s not Fabio’s flops, who are already back home with their feet up, but referee Howard Webb. The Premier League official is 7/4 favourite to be the ref for the World Cup Final on July 11th after a string of impressive performances in South Africa. Webb, who also took control of this season’s Champions League final, had been a 28/1 shot for the honour prior to the tournament.

Whilst England spluttered out of the World Cup Andy Murray has marched on and is the only player through to the Wimbledon quarter-finals without dropping a single set, Paddy Power has Murray odds on at 2/7 to progress to the last four and he is also only 13/10 to maintain his clean sheet and win the last eight game against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets.

With Roy Hodgson on the verge of becoming the next manager of Liverpool, Paddy Power are tipping the English coach to win the first battle on his hands and keep Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres at the club.

Ireland are red hot 1/4 and 9 points favourites with Paddy Power to keep their Triple Crown hopes on the road at Croke Park on Saturday.

Punters have been piling cash onto Delcan Kidney’s unchanged XV in anticipation of an easy victory after the edge of the seat finish against England.  Paddy Power had set the handicap on the match at 8 points, but pure weight of cash has forced the bookie to up it’s prediction to a 9 point Irish victory.

James Cameron's sci-fi smash might have been sensationally snubbed by the Academy but it was a big winner for bookies Paddy Power.

The Irish bookmaker took twice the number of bets and double the amount of money on Avatar winning Best Picture than it did on Kathryn Bigelows war-time drama, leaving them in the green to the tune of almost 10,000 euros

(22 February 2010) Following the success of The Hurt Locker at the BAFTA Awards in London last night top bookie Paddy Power have slashed the odds on the critically acclaimed Iraq war drama from 5/4 to 5/6 to win the Oscar for Best Picture at next months Academy Awards.

The Hurt Locker has now replaced James Cameron’s sci-fi spectacular Avatar as favourite to win Best Picture and director Kathryn Bigelow is now the solid 1/3 favourite to also pick up the Oscar for Best Director.

EastEnders ‘Whodunit’ Murder Mystery Betting -

Bookies Paddy Power announced today that they will refund all losing bets in the EastEnders murder mystery market if Ben Mitchell is unveiled as Archie Mitchell’s murderer.

Following more gloomy economic figures and few signs of improvement in the near future, Paddy Power has cut the odds from 14/1 to only 5/1 for Gordon Brown to call an early election in April.

A huge slump in Tax receipts has prompted fears of a double dip recession and some believe that may lead Labour to call an election before April 23, although May still the remains the favourite at 1/10.

The FA Cup would appear to be Chelsea’s to lose following the exit of another big four rival this weekend.

With Arsenal joining Liverpool and Manchester United on the FA Cup sidelines Paddy Power now have Chelsea the 6/4 favourites to win the FA Cup with apparent cup specialists Manchester City their nearest rival at 10/3. City are 12/1 to complete the Cup double this season ahead of the Carling Cup semi-final against neighbours United on Wednesday.

 viagogo (www.viagogo.ie), Europe's leading ticket marketplace, has teamed up with Ireland's biggest bookmaker Paddy Power (http://www.paddypower.com/bet) and has today announced that if Brian O Driscoll scores a hat trick against France during the Six Nations tie at the Stade de France, all fans who bought their tickets on viagogo January 1st 2010 onwards will receive a full refund.

James Cameron’s Avatar leads the way at this year’s British Academy Film Awards after receiving a whopping nine nominations.

The epic blockbuster which cost over $300m to make is the 8/13 favourite with Paddy Power to win Best Picture while Director James Cameron is the 11/10 favourite to win Best Director. The odds on the 3-D smash scooping both major awards are just 6/4 with Paddy Power.

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EastEnders and Ant & Dec are hotly tipped to be this year’s biggest winners at the National Television Awards but they’re not the only ones commanding attention.

Irish X Factor twins John and Edward are set to be the stars of the show when they take to the stage to perform for the first time since getting the boot from the popular TV3 talent show.

Boyzone are being tipped to change their name to ‘Brothers’ as a tribute to their beloved former band member Stephen Gately. Bookies Paddy Power opened betting on the possible move after Ronan hinted a new act might be the only way forward following the death of Stephen.

It’s just 4/1 that Ronan and co re-invent themselves under the name ‘Brothers’, 8/1 they opt for the name ‘Blood Brothers’ while other possibilities include Supermen at 20/1, Manzone at 40/1 and ‘Eastlife’ at 50/1.

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power have made Prince William their 4/5 odds-on favourite to succeed Queen Elizabeth and become the next British Monarch.

The bookmakers issued their odds following the result of a recent ITV poll which found 58 percent of Australians wanted to see Prince William crowned King, compared to just 30 percent for his father Charles.

ROY KEANE DIVIDES A NATION…..AGAIN! -Ireland fans split down the middle in Keane poll

The result of a comprehensive online poll has shown that Irish people are divided over the views expressed by Roy Keane about Ireland’s controversial exit form the World Cup in a recent interview on Sky Sports News

The poll in which over 1,100 individual votes were cast over the past two days was held on paddypower.com, one of Ireland’s highest traffic websites.

Bookies Paddy Power are betting it could be a bumper year for I’m a Celebrity in the TV ratings and are tipping the show to rake in more than 17 million viewers. It’s just 2/1 that the jungle show attracts a peak audience of between 16million and 18million and 9/2 that that figure jumps to between 18million and 20million!

- I’m A Celebrity Betting Specials -

With more than 16 names sill being touted to appear in this year’s I’m A Celebrity, the possible jungle participants Vinnie Jones, Jimmy White and Kim Woodburn will all be sure to be jostling to be the bookie’s opening favourite.

Following the weekend action and wins for the big four teams there is little or no change in the odds for the title race with Chelsea maintaining their favourites tag with Paddy Power at 10/11.