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The Premier League is the worlds biggest sporting competition in terms of revenue, number of people watching, wages, attendance and pretty much any other stat you want to look at; including betting, accounting for over half of bets placed on football in the UK.

Let's face it the league is elitist and based on money, and for a long time this caused stagnation with three teams domination the first 20 years; Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal. Lately, however, the league has gained a new competitive streak, most notably with Leicester winning in 2015 and then two new dominant forces arising in Liverpool and Man City, who look set to continue their battle in 2020-21, in the way United and Arsenal did 15 years ago - that is except the level is now much higher, as seen with Liverpool coming second in 2019 with an astonishing 97 points.

In the UK 70% of bets are placed on football and nearly three quarters of those wagers go on the Premier League, making this one event responsible for around half of all bets placed. Considering this if you bet on the PL you would be insane not to search around for the best offers and odds from our leading bookies. Read our detailed guide for more.

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Following the World Cup in Japan last Autumn the 6 Nations represents one of the first chances to gauge which of the top European nations have stayed on top form and will be pushing for the big title.

Ireland were favourites last year but a strong start from both England and Wales blew many expectations away. Wales of course went on to win the Grand Slam in style leaving a sore taste in mouths of the English and the Irish. Is revenge on the cards or can the Welsh do it again?

The Six Nations returns in October after the cancellation in March and is a great event for finding try scorer money back offers, extra winnings, early payouts and insurance deals.

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It's the pinnacle of European club football and the competition every fan wants to win and this year with no less than four English teams in the competition and this means even more attention than before. Liverpool are of course the record English side in the competition and were finalists in 2018 and won the competition in 2019, making them reigning English European Champions. This year however it seems Liverpool may still want the Premier League more, whilst at the same time league champions Man City would give anything for a European Cup in their expanding trophy cabinet.

Despite the restricted timings this year UEFA still know how to stretch an event out with the group phase extending over 6 match weeks from the 20th October to the 9th December, then following the winter break the last 16 now takes place over 8 days and 4 match weeks. This is good news for punters however as it means the bookies spread their feature offers over more weeks making more fixtures applicable to high value odds boost and promotion deals. With English clubs this year being favourite to win it the bookies will be putting in more effort than normal.

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The inaugural Nations League in 2018/19 proved to be certainly more interesting than your average friendly the tournament was designed to replace. England won their League A group in dramatic style against Croatia, who had beaten them only months earlier in the World Cup semi-finals in Russia. With 10 minutes to go in that game it was possible for England to be relegated, finish second or win the group and progress to the finals.

Other league A group winners, Portugal, Netherlands and Switzerland joined England in the first ever finals in June 2019, which saw hosts Portugal win the first ever trophy. Hardly as exciting or memorable as a World Cup or European Championship, but a damn sight more interesting than a normal June friendly.

The Nations League now returns from September to November 2020 where 6 rounds of group matches will take place to see who makes the second finals in June 2020 (hosts selected after group stages). It is not just a finals spot on offer either, just like in the previous edition the winners of lower leagues can compete for World Cup 2022 places.

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The World Cup of Darts will be held at the Premstättner Halle in Graz/Premstätten in November (having been moved from June) and will see 32 nations compete to be crowned this years champions. The Netherlands are favourties, largely driven by the fact they have the worlds best player, Michel Van Gerwen. Last year however the Dutch lost to Ireland in the semi-finals with Scotland's Gary Anderson and Peter Wright taking the tite.

All home nations are represented; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, representing the second to fifth favourites after the dutch. The top 8 teams are seeded, the first round takes place over the first two days, and is the best of nine-legs doubles. Round two takes place on Saturday and consists of two best of seven singles legs per team and if scores are tied a best of seven doubles leg is played.

Quarter and semi-finals have the same format and are played on the Sunday, before the final. The final also has the same structure but this time three points are needed to win the title, if no team has 3 points following the two singles and doubles leg then the singles are played in reverse to find the champion. The winners will take home £70,000 of a £350,000 prize pool.

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The Breeders Cup was established in 1982, not very old in British horse racing terms but in typical American style it has smashed its way to the top of the worlds best meetings by offering staggering amounts of prize money. This year the fund is expected to exceed $30 million, which beats any UK meeting by a country mile.

Despite the name the Breeders' Cup is a series of races over two days. It moves around each year but for 2020 it will be held at Keeneland in Kentucky. The races are held on both turf and dirt tracks and range from 5 furlongs to 1 1/2 miles. There are 14 races, five on Friday and 9 on Saturday; 12 of which have grade 1 status. The biggest and final race (around 9:45pm UK time on Saturday) is the 1 mile 2 furlong Breeders' Cup Classic on dirt, which has a prize pot of $6 million alone.

The biggest turf race precedes the Classic, the Breeders' Cup Longines Distaff, a one and a half mile run with $4 million prize fund. Even the lower races that would often be counted as filler at other events offer at least $1 million.

Obviously given the lavish amount of cash to be won the Breeders' Cup attracts a lot of interest around the world and UK bookies like to get in on this and will have their best prices and promos around 24-48 hours before the main races. One of the best sites for international racing is RaceBets

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Established in 1861 the Melbourne Cup is without doubt one of the biggest, and richest, flat races in the world. Held at Flemington racecourse in Melbourne the 3200 metre race (just under 2 miles) for 3 year olds and over has the biggest prize fund of any 2-mile race in the world, worth an astonishing $8,000,000 (Australian dollars) with the winner taking home $4,400,000.

The group 1 race is truly international and was won by Cross Counter in 2018, the first time a British trainer has won the famous race. In 2019 local horse Vow And Declare won the race as Frankie Dettori had another Cup to forget as he was banned as runner-up and his horse Master Of Reality demoted The field is restricted to 24 horses, with prizes available for the first 12 to finish.

The Melbourne cup itself is due to go off at 3pm Melbourne time, which is 4am UK time. The big race is however just one of 10 races on the card, many of which are big group or listed races, all with prize funds over $135,000.

UK bookies don't usually do a lot for foreign racing as we have enough elite racing on these shores already, the Melbourne Cup is however an exception and you can expect some tasty deals, enhanced odds and specials if you wait until the day before to bet.

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Cheltenham may well be known for holding the Festival in March, the biggest week of jump racing on the calendar, but the famous course also hosts the first high profile National Hunt meeting of the season with the November meeting (formerly the Cheltenham Open).

This meeting is seen as marker by serious punters looking to see the who the form horses are for high level Grade races for the year to come. The three day meeting begins with Countryside Day on the Friday, followed by Gold Cup Day on the Saturday and finally November Meeting Sunday. In total there are 19 races with 8 grade races and 3 listed races. The feature races are:

• Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 2) Fri
• Triumph Trial Hurdle (Grade 2) Sat
• BetVictor Handicap Chase (Grade 3) Sat
• BetVictor Gold Cup (Grade 3) Sat
• Arkle Trophy Trial Novices Chase (Grade 2) Sun
• Schloer Cheltenham Chase (Grade 2) Sun
• Unibet Greatwood Hurdle (Grade 3) Sun
• Supreme Trial Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 2) Sun

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