Graham Sharpe
Graham Sharpe
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I can't recall this situation in any year. Romantics like the mystique of the FA Cup because it gives the giant killers a chance.
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Still, you can't afford to take chances when a gamble develops on this job as previous bitter experience has shown us.
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I hope we are trivializing it. The Booker takes itself far too seriously. We are popularizing it and making it far more accessible. It's great that people have a flutter.
far great hope itself people takes
I hope we are trivializing it, ... The Booker takes itself far too seriously. We are popularizing it and making it far more accessible. It's great that people have a flutter.
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Up until the injury we were consistently taking substantial bets for England but now the support has dried up - although we do face seven figure liabilities for an England victory.
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Dr Fox's decision to run does not seem to have excited political punters.
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Both of these gambles took us a little by surprise and left us facing a hefty payout should either get the job.
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We cannot now see beyond these five as serious candidates, despite having taken bets for some thirty contenders in all
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At the weekend Paris were way out in front as red hot favorites, but over the past 48 hours London's odds have been dramatically cut several times.
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The Tory decision wouldn't seem to have done Ken Clarke's hopes a great deal of good and we think David Davis now has the clear edge over his opponents with Liam Fox - whose odds we have halved from 12/1 - potentially his main challenger
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A few years ago this match would have been inconsequential but we now have clients in these markets and feel obliged to offer odds.
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If these people didn't flaunt their weddings all over the place, then maybe there wouldn't be demand for others to do things like this.
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But the smaller money bettors like the chance of an upset. So it's difficult to say how the money will come in during the days before Saturday's kickoffs.
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The odds are that Sven can survive this latest embarrassment but you wonder just how much more humiliation the FA will be prepared to put up with.