Michael Lintorn

With Borussia Dortmund dropping points for the fourth Bundesliga match in succession at home to rivals Schalke, there continue to be four sides separating them from leaders Bayern Munich, causing them to drift to 2/5 in the winner without Bayern market. It isn’t usual suspects Bayer Leverkusen or Borussia Monchengladbach standing between them though, or More...

Next time somebody bores you with the line that no division can rival the Premier League for unpredictability, point them in the direction of the Bundesliga table. Schalke, Werder Bremen, Wolfsburg and Hamburg, all of whom have finished on the podium in the past 11 years, are in the bottom six, current Champions League duo More...

Championship matchday 14 sees arguably the division’s three biggest box-office draws, Aston Villa, Newcastle and Leeds, all lining up at 15:00 on a Saturday for only the third time this season. news.bwin decided to use the opportunity to analyse the incidents that reoccur most frequently in matches involving each of the trio… ASTON VILLA Prior More...

How does a coach go from winning the Champions League in two of his first three participations in the competition to falling short on every entry since? It’s not like the Bayern Munich side that Pep Guardiola led over the past three seasons or the Manchester City squad that he is a distant 11/1 sixth More...

At first glance, the damage to Man City following their first defeat under Pep Guardiola away to Tottenham doesn’t seem too severe: with top spot in the Premier League maintained and likewise their status as 91/100 title favourites. However, the problem with being perfect, as the Citizens were for their opening ten games under the More...

Despite relegation, it was a summer of great promise for Aston Villa, with maligned owner Randy Lerner finally selling up and far more communicative replacement Tony Xia claiming that five years from now, they will be “the top club in Europe with the highest number of fans all over the world”. While even the most More...

Nobody was talking about Arsenal as they hit upon a run of four successive domestic victories, but they made sure that people started paying attention with their performance in extending that to five. The Gunners exorcised close to five years of unrelenting misery in Premier League combat with Chelsea, going nine meetings without a win More...

Manchester City are two points clear at the top of the Premier League and even further ahead of their Big Six adversaries, with Tottenham four points back, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool five adrift and Manchester United five off the pace. They have won not only all five of their top-flight fixtures, but their three Champions More...

The Premier League champions were among the clubs writing cheques late on deadline day, with Leicester breaking their transfer record to complete the £29 million purchase of Islam Slimani. Even though the Foxes are one of the few top-flight sides to field two strikers, the Algeria international is going to face plenty of competition for More...

Juventus, Roma and AC Milan were mentioned, but Jack Wilshere increased the surprise of Arsenal deciding to allow him to leave on loan by identifying Bournemouth as the club that he wanted to spend the season with. Arsene Wenger realised that the England midfielder wouldn’t command a starting spot at the Emirates after adding Granit More...

The media and fans haven’t been too positive about David Luiz’s impending Chelsea second coming, but the bwin bookmakers anticipate a wider body of work this time around. The Brazilian defender played 81 Premier League games in his initial spell at Stamford Bridge, signing for £21.3 million in early 2011 and being sold to Paris More...

The latest Southampton summer reboot hasn’t yielded instant success, with the Saints collecting two points from the first available nine in the Premier League and consequently sitting 15th heading into the maiden international break of the campaign. Ronald Koeman, Sadio Mane, Victor Wanyama and Graziano Pelle were the prominent pre-season departures, though as ever there More...

The recent announcement of the judging panel for the 13th series of The X Factor was greeted with bemusement as the producers operated to the rarely-adopted mantra of “out with the new and in with the old”. Gone were Nick Grimshaw and Rita Ora, the pair picked very deliberately to give the show a makeover More...

Despite briefly threatening to claim the title in 2015/16, Tottenham are only fifth favourites at 15/2 in the Premier League winner betting market for 2016/17. They clearly have a few issues to address, including juggling domestic progress with their overdue Champions League return and the danger of burnout which appeared to be a factor in More...

It is difficult to know whether the perception that a move from seven-time European champions AC Milan to West Ham would represent career progression for Carlos Bacca is more a sign of the Premier League’s current enormity or of the Rossoneri’s stagnation. After all, both clubs placed seventh in their leagues and there is no More...

Serena Williams has reached her 27th Grand Slam final, and it is against someone still searching for their first title on such a stage. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty, as these six reasons why Garbine Muguruza is a better bet to win the French Open at 6/4 than the holder is at 4/7 highlight: More...

The image rights have been resolved, the photo opportunity with Sir Bobby Charlton has been milked and there are still over two months until the first competitive game, so naturally the current obsession regarding Jose Mourinho at Manchester United is who he is going to buy and sell. The latest whisper is that, even before More...

How seriously should the potential of Everton be regarded following Iranian businessman Farhad Moshiri’s 49.9% investment in February? Very, judging by the state of their next manager market. Despite finishing in the bottom half in 2014/15 and 2015/16, their vacancy is perceived to be so attractive that among the top six in the betting are More...

For the first time since Rafael Nadal’s victorious debut at Roland Garros in 2005, successive editions of the French Open are going to pass without the nine-time champion taking the men’s singles title following his withdrawal with a wrist injury. Normally, that would mark the end of Spain’s hopes of supplying a winner: no other More...

Jose Mourinho hasn’t even yet had the chance to pose with a Manchester United scarf and a shirt showcasing his surname, but the ever-diligent bwin bookmakers have already created a number of enticing betting opportunities surrounding his anticipated appointment. It is 1/2 that he does what neither he nor predecessor Louis van Gaal managed in More...

If you go to a football match, you are either supporting one of the two teams or sipping champagne and nibbling duck a l’orange in the expensive seats. If you go to the darts, you know that your experience will be divided up into 40% drinking, 40% chanting and 20% watching arrows fly. A trip More...

After years of speculation about a scrap with Floyd Mayweather Jr or Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan ultimately picking Saul Alvarez as the pound-for-pound sensation that he would go toe-to-toe with in his first true megafight caught everyone off guard. More...

Last year was the best yet for Mercedes, who retained the Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship with 18 pole positions, 16 victories and 12 one-two finishes in 19 races as Lewis Hamilton became the first Brit to ever win consecutive Drivers’ Championships. However, relations are so fraught between Hamilton and his teammate Nico Rosberg that, despite More...

EastEnders producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins confirmed this week that “someone will die on Christmas Day that we haven’t revealed to anyone”, but that secrecy couldn’t deter the bwin.com bookies from inviting you to punt on who will pass away. The early 5/2 frontrunner is Arthur “Fatboy” Chubb, followed by Charlie Slater at 5/1, Cora Cross at More...

Punters rejoice because bwin.com are marking the start of the 2015 US Open with a dozen different Combi+ enhanced multiples on the day-one match-ups. You can support Novak Djokovic, David Ferrer, Martin Klizan and Lucas Pouille at 10/3 or Ana Ivanovic, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Urszula Radwanska at 9/2, but news.bwin’s favourite is the most enticingly-priced More...

The WWE SummerSlam 2015 main event pits Brock Lesnar against The Undertaker in a match dubiously billed as being “too big for WrestleMania”. The Undertaker is bidding to avenge the WrestleMania 30 loss that cost him his 21-0 undefeated streak on the grandest stage of them all and he is a 2/5 favourite on bwin.com More...

The housemates in series 16 of Big Brother have been a mix of the dull, dislikable and the dull and dislikable, the result being that less than 48 hours before Thursday night’s finale, nobody has much clue who is going to win. Whereas usually only one or two finalists stand a chance of glory, five More...

What do you need above all else to maximise your enjoyment of Wimbledon? It isn’t strawberries, Union Jack car flags or even a trip to the suddenly congested local park courts, it’s the red button on your remote control. For while the broadcasters focus on ‘treating’ you to a selection of straight-set strolls for the More...

Due to the musical presumption that new can never be better, Rita Ora’s arrival on the X Factor judging panel has been harshly treated as the “Adam Bogdan to Liverpool” of TV talent show transfers. Complaints include that her mainstream music career is a mere three years old, that she flopped on barely-watched BBC alternative More...

Allow us to stop you before your inevitable question asking why you should care about a soap opera dominated by men in pants. The answer is that WrestleMania is a money-making opportunity, with bwin.com offering odds on every contest on the main card. The headline bout sees Brock Lesnar defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship More...