Graham Sharpe
Graham Sharpe
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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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This time last year, you could get 6-1 for Tiger to win the Open, but he is coming into this year's event bang in form and our customers are backing him as though defeat were out of the question. If he wins, the industry will take a multimillion-pound hit.
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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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With the Aussies needing only to avoid defeat in the final two matches to retain the Ashes, punters reckon that they will play safe -- and that, combined with the likelihood of the weather taking a hand early on in the game, swings the balance of probabilities towards the draw as the most likely outcome.
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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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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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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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I thought I'd heard most things that people want to bet on after 30 years in the business. But one asking literally to place a dead cert was unique. I'm glad Arthur has lost.
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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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If 'Big Phil' gets the job we will be quite happy from a bookmaking point of view as we will make a five figure profit.
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Whoever takes over will be inheriting a much loved position and an opportunity to become a broadcasting institution.
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We are looking at potentially our biggest patriotic payout since England's rugby union players won the 2003 World Cup.
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We are left with a low-profile bunch of authors. This is an average rather than an extraordinary year.
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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.