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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 British Champions Day is a modern meeting having only began in 2011 but it has already become the biggest single day in the British flat horse racing season. The meeting was created to created to bring together a series of historic group races late in the season to create one of the richest and most watched days in racing.

Each group race represents the final of a British Champion Series division over different distances ranging from 6 furlongs to 2 miles. The races are worth a massive amount, the whole day has a prize fund of over £4.35 million with the riches race being the QEII Stakes carrying a pot of over £1 million.

The meting attracts the very best jockeys, trainers and horses at the peak of the their seasons. The day is worth a massive amount to the bookies and this means they love to compete with each other through offers, enhanced odds and free bets. It is generally best to wait until 48 hours before to find the very best deals.

• 13:35 - Champions Sprint Stakes: sprint final (6 furlongs, group 1)
• 14:10 - Long Distance Cup: long distance final (2 miles, group 2)
• 14:45 - Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes: middle distance final for fillies % mares (1 miles 4 furlongs, group 1)
• 15:20 - Queen Elizabeth II Stakes: mile-division final (1 mile, group 1)
• 16:00 - Champion Stakes :middle distance final (1 miles 2 furlongs, group 1)
• 16:40 - Balmoral Handicap: (1 mile, class 2)

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The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe dates back to 1920; it is as much a part of classic flat racing as the Epsom Derby, Guineas, British Champions Day or the St Leger. It's not just about one race either, with 14 races over the two days, 11 of which are group races, including; the Prix du Cadran, Prix Marcel Boussac, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, Prix de l’Opera, Prix De l’Abbaye and Prix De La Foret, this is without doubt one of the biggest racing meetings on the flat racing calendar.

The group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday 4th of course dominates the card. It is the richest European flat race with a total prize fund over €5,000,000 with just under €3,000,000 for the winner. It is run over 1 mile, 4 furlongs. A mainstay of the flat racing calendar, it is perhaps not as prestigious as it once was with subsequent modern events like British Champions Day still to come, but it is still one of the most loved and watched races in the world.

Being one of the final big group races of the flat season the bookies will have tons of offers and features for this meeting. It is also a good one for punters who at this point can have more certainty of the horses in form as they hit the peak of the season.

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Newmarket is best known for hosting the 1000 and 2000 Guineas in May, but being the home of the jockey club and one of the oldest and most prestigious flat horse racing courses in the UK it also holds a ton of other high profile meetings, one of which is the Future Champions Festival in October.

The two day meeting sees 14 races over Ladies Day (Friday) and Future Champions Day (Saturday), including 9 group races, a listed race and the much loved Cesarewitch heritage handicap on the final day. The feature races are (m - miles, f - furlongs):

• Cornwallis Stakes - Group 3: 5f (Fri)
• So Sharp Stakes - Group 3: 7f (Fri)
• Challenge Stakes - Group 2: 7f (Fri)
• Fillies’ Mile - Group 1: 1m (Fri)
• Old Rowley Cup - Heritage Handicap: 1m, 4f (Fri)
• Darley Pride Stakes - Group 2: 1 mile (Fri)
• Zetland Stakes - Group 3: 1m, 2f (Sat)
• Autumn Stakes - Group 2: 1m (Sat)
• Dewhurst Stakes - Group 1: 7f (Sat)
• Cesarewitch Stakes - Heritage Handicap: 2m, 2f (Sat)
• Boadicea Stakes - Listed: 6f (Sat)
• Darley Stakes - Group 3: 1m, 1f (Sat)

The feature races are broadcast live in ITV meaning you can claim many of the high value associated TV racing offers.

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The ICC T20 Cricket World Cup will take place in India 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 around the country at 7 different grounds. It is the 3rd time in a row that India has hosted the T20 World Cup, a tournament they have won once in its inaugural year, 2007. 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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The World Grand Prix is a PDC event particularly liked by fans due to the requirement that players must double both in and out of each leg. This generally means the event favours those good at doubling over the big 180 hitters, therefore, it is no surprise the event has been dominated by two of the best doublers in history, Phill Taylor (11 wins) and Michael van Gerwen (5 wins).

Established in 1998 it was first held in Kent in England before moving to Ireland in 1999, where it has stayed since. It has been held at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin since 2001. The format sees the 32 top PDC players compete in a straight knockout event with five rounds, round 1 (best of 3 sets), round 2 and the quarter-finals (best of 5 sets), semi-finals (best of 7 sets) and the final (best of 9 sets).

Held over just 6 days it is a captivating tournament that pays well for the players too, with the winner pocketing £110,000 of a total £450,000 prize pool. In terms of betting it is wise to head over to the Irish bookies (e.g Paddy Power and Boylesports) to find the best deals and odds.

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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 second Nations League finals will take place in Italy in October, it was originally scheduled for June but was moved due to the rescheduling of Euro 2020. The San Siro (Milan) and Juventus Stadium (Turin) will be used for the semi-finals, third place play off and the final. Italy, Belgium, France and Spain all qualified as League A group winners.

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