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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 dominating 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 2021-22, 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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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.

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, especially given their weak performance when they lost the final to Chelsea in 2021. Chelsea, of course, will fancy winning the competition back-to-back as the reigning English European Champions and Man Utd cannot be discounted.

Following two years of disruption the schedule returns to normal for 2021-22 with six matchdays in the group stages spread between mid-September and early December.

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The 2022 EFL Cup gets underway with the first round starting the week of the 9th August. The games then come quick and fast through the autumn in order to complete the competition by February. That doesn't however mean teams won't want to play seriously for the silverware that could come. Manchester City have won six of the last eight finals since 2014 and have come to own the competition of late. Then again this is a cup competition and anything can happen, this will be in City's mind too having been beaten in one of the biggest FA Cup shocks when Wigan overcame them in the 2012 final.

With Man City likely to dominate the Premier League again it gives added importance for the League Cup where it will be high on the list for teams like Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs and Man United as a way to earn silverware to grow their teams. Equally upcoming teams like Everton and Wolves could get a lot out of a good EFL Cup run.

For 2021 the two-legged semi-finals were scrapped to help reduce the number of matches in a shortened season. If carried through this year it makes the entire competition a single leg knockout. The team drawn first will be at home, the only game held at a neutral venue is the final at Wembley on 27th February 2022.

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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 2021 it will be held at Del Mar in the San Diego. 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 (late night 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.

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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 Frankie Dettori had another Cup to forget as he was banned as runner-up and in 2020 Irish trainer Joseph O'Brien won with the joint oldest-winner (8yo), Twilight Payment. 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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The ICC T20 Cricket World Cup will take place in the UAE and Oman this year, the 7th incarnation. The competition takes place over the course of 4 weeks there will be 45 matches between the 16 teams involved. It was due to be scheduled in Australia in 2020 but this has been moved to 2022.

The group stage sees two groups of 4 teams compete in a round-robin (3 matches each team) from the 17th-22nd October. The winners and runner up from each group then join the top 8 ranked teams that progress straight to the Super 12 stage. The Super 12 stage sees the 12 remaining teams split into two groups of 6 teams who again play 5 matches each in a round-robin. The top two teams in each Super 12 group progress to the semi-finals. The final will be held on the 14th November.

Matches will take place at 3 different grounds in the UAE with preliminary matches hosted in Oman. It is the 1st time that the UAE has hosted the T20 World Cup. West Indies are the current record holders with 2 previous wins (2012 & 2016) from the 6 world cups to date, Sri Lanka are historically the best performing team with the highest number of wins, they have won it once (2014) and been runners up twice (2009 & 2012).

Fans can only hope the 2021 World Cup lives up to the spectacular 2016 edition that England lost in dramatic style to the West Indies, who won with just two balls to spare.

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