An old man looks to get involved in a game of football. But what happens next...

The waiting is finally over as the World Cup kicks-off with Brazil v Croatia tonight (Thursday). To help you with your betting on the action from South America, read our ‘10 ways to spread bet on the World Cup’ blog.

As well as outright fixed odds and spread betting prices, a full range of first group game match odds, Team Tournament Markets and our World Cup Hamper we also have markets which allow you bet across all the games being played each day.

For example, Friday’s World Cup Specials feature Goals Cubed from the day’s games (e.g. if 7 goals are scored from the three games the market would make-up at 343), Total Day’s Bookings, Total Day’s Corners, Fastest Corner, Match Multi-Goals, Total Goal Minutes for the Day and much more.

Ahead of England v Italy on Saturday night our traders have gone industry-best price 13/2 on Wayne Rooney to open the scoring.
 Or click here to find out more about football spread betting.  

The second major of the season begins today with the US Open from Pinehurst with TV coverage starting from 2pm.

We’ll have a range of in-play fixed odds and spread betting markets including our Round 1 Leaderboard, Tournament Winner and Round 1 Six Shooter to name just a few.

We’ll also have a host of specials, 72-hole Matchbets and group markets to play on.

In terms of long-term betting, we have prices available for the Open Championship, USPGA Championship and the Ryder Cup.

Or click here to find out more about golf spread betting.

The two-Test series against Sri Lanka starts at Lord’s tomorrow with England determined to avenge the ODI series defeat that was tinged with controversy after Jos Buttler was run out at the non-striker’s end by Sachithra Senanayake.

Buttler himself did not make the Test squad, but how will the rest of Peter Moores’ side – including uncapped trio Sam Robson, Moeen Ali and Chris Jordan – fare?

We’ll also be covering all the latest action in the Natwest T20 Blast.

Our long term fixed odds prices for 2015 Cricket World Cup winner have Australia as 10/3 favourites, South Africa 9/2, India 5/1, Sri Lanka 13/2, Pakistan and New Zealand 8/1 and England 9/1. Or click here to find out more about cricket spread betting

Hot on the heels of the Oaks and the Derby, the first class racing continues with Royal Ascot starting on Tuesday next week.

We have a host of Ante-post prices out for the five-day meeting including the Queen Anne Stakes, Kings Stand Stakes, St James’ Palace Stakes, Prince of Wales Stakes, Royal Hunt Cup, Diamond Jubilee Stakes and the Gold Cup, where Leading Light is the 7/4 favourite ahead of Brown Panther at 11/2, Tac De Bistron at 6/1, Estimate at 13/2 and Altano at 9/1.

Before that we’ll have our usual full range of fixed odds and spread betting prices on all the daily racing from the UK and Ireland.

Don’t forget that in addition to our each-way and accumulators, you can now place forecast and tricast fixed odds bets on horse racing with Spreadex. Click the following link to find out more on forecast and tricast betting.

Or click here to find out more about horse racing spread betting. 

The WTA Birmingham continues as we reach the third round of the competition. It’s an all-Aussie affair later on as Casey Dellacqua and Sam Stosur go head-to-head, with Dellacqua currently 9/4 to progress. We will also be covering the action from ATP Halle.

With Wimbledon just around the corner our long term prices are now live. In the men’s draw we have Novak Djokovic as 7/4 favourite, with Andy Murray 100/30 and Rafael Nadal 4/1. Serena Williams leads the way for the ladies at 5/4, with Maria Sharapova 5/1 and Simona Halep 9/1.

Or click here to find out more about tennis spread betting.

 

Leeds and Huddersfield go head-to-head in tonight’s Super league fixture. Will the Rhinos make the most of the home advantage? The current Supremacy quote is Leeds/Huddersfield 4-7. Wigan and Castleford meet in tomorrow’s televised game and we also have coverage from the NRL.

Switching codes to Rugby Union then the international between Australia and France is the main focus with the Wallabies favourites with a quote of Australia/France 14-17.

Or click here to find out more about rugby spread betting.

We’re down to the business end of the NBA and NHL seasons while the MLB continues with regular season games.

In basketball the Spurs lead the series 2-1 and are San Antonio/Miami 4.5-6.5 in our 10-3 series supremacy.

In the ice hockey, the Los Angeles Kings take a two game lead into the third game against New York Rangers on Saturday night.


Or click here to find out more about american sports spread betting. 


The Scottish Independence Referendum takes place on September 18th and our traders reckon it’s going to end as a ‘No’ vote.

That’s 2/7 to be the outcome while a ‘Yes’ vote is 5/2.

We also have prices on the next General Election. For Most Seats we have Labour 4/5, Conservatives even money, UKIP 66/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 15/8, Conservatives 5/2, UKIP 80/1, Liberal Democrats 200/1 and No Overall Majority 11/10.

We also have markets live for who will be the next Prime Minister after David Cameron.

Ed Milliband is 9/10 favourite followed by Boris Johnson at 10/1, Theresa May at 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1, Phillip Hammond 20/1 and George Osborne, Michael Gove and William Hague all 25/1.



Or click here to find out more about politics spread betting.

*Prices subject to change.