Iain Houten 
The story of Anthony Crolla is inspirational, with the 29-year-old Manchester native WBA Lightweight Champion since flooring Colombian Darleys Perez at the second time of asking in November, less than a year after sustaining a head injury while fending off burglars at a neighbours’ home. He might face his biggest … Read more
Sheffield’s Kell Brook says he’s out to ‘shock the world’ by beating knockout king Gennady Golovkin, and with bwin going 9/2 about the Kazakh losing for the first time at the O2, it would certainly send a message. The likes of Carl Froch have been searching for reasons why Brook … Read more
Having banked £30m from the sale of N’Golo Kante to Chelsea, which they would have preferred not to happen, Leicester are still in the black this summer despite adding six players, the most expensive being forward Ahmed Musa for a relatively-paltry tally of around £16m. Compare that to Crystal Palace’s … Read more
Sky Sports hosts the Premier League’s top game of the weekend early doors when Tottenham take on Liverpool at 12.30 on Saturday, and we’ve had a hard stare at the stats to try and come up with a correct-score wager worth being on. Here’s what we found. Spurs have failed to … Read more
Wolves’ rumoured £20m move for Brazil U-23 international Anderson Talisca was always unlikely to come off, but the Benfica attacking-midfielder snubbing Liverpool for a loan switch to Turkish champions Besiktas is something of a surprise. No disrespect is meant towards the Istanbul club who, unlike the Reds, have Champions League … Read more
After seeing off 17 candidates representing various wings of the Republican party and none, Donald Trump’s shocking quest to be next President of the United States rolls on. Trump attracted a 33/1 quote to win the Republican nomination upon announcing his candidacy in June 2015, and had been as big … Read more
Four of the top nine in sports.bwin’s Euro 2016 final first-goalscorer market have either plied their trade at Manchester United in the past or are still on the stumbling Premier League giants’ books, but it’s tough to make a strong case for any of them bagging the opener in Paris. … Read more
France are hot on Germany’s heels at just 37/20 to win Euro 2016 following the hosts’ 5-2 thumping of Iceland in the last quarter-final, with Joachim Low’s World Cup winners hanging onto favouritism at 9/5 ahead of the historic rivals’ semi-final clash in Paris. With three of the top five … Read more
There’s panic underway in the campaign to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union, according to the press at least, with heightened interest in the plebiscite on both sides in the run up to the June 23rd vote reportedly causing a meltdown for Remain. Of course, the UK staying … Read more
Top political tipster Mike Smithson believes the chances of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union are slightly better than the odds suggest, with bwin.com offering the best price around at 4/1 about Brexit becoming a reality after the June 23rd vote. Aggregates of polls show that ‘Remain’ still holds … Read more
Former Arsenal centre-half and potential future Conservative party candidate Sol Campbell jovially suggested that most footballers are “probably” Tories in the Guardian over the weekend. It doesn’t take an awful lot of research to conclude that he’s probably right. This wasn’t always the case, even in recent years, but it’s … Read more
Diego Costa is in the dock after stamping all over Liverpool pair Martin Skrtel and Emre Can in Chelsea’s Capital One Cup semi-final second leg win, although Blues boss Jose Mourinho insists that Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp is conducting a ‘campaign’ against him and the club. We’re not usually … Read more
Ander Herrera has outperformed two of last season’s most feted midfielders this term, despite playing half as many matches.
The Swiss septuagenarian let plentiful hot air out of his gills at the samba jamboree’s debriefing.