Over The LineOver The LinePaddy Power gives his views on the latest goings on in the world of horse racing and sport aswell as posts from his crack team of inhouse journalists Articles
Supremely Good
2008-05-10 14:31:00 I may be a huge Grandstand nerd, but I think this is brilliant. More About: Videos , Sportsbook
Promoted Teams - Will They Survive?
2008-05-09 09:57:00 Already Playing Ketchup! I’m not going to rain on West Brom’s parade, but that’s only because they won’t be having one. The Baggies have turned down the football’s finest cliché that is the bus through the town centre in favour of letting their players break up for holidays. “We regard this as only the start of ... More About: Football , Sportsbook , Survive
GAA Betting: In Search of Sam Maguire
2008-05-07 17:52:00 Like whispering in a night club, the All-Ireland Football Championship will start with a barely audible meow as opposed to a loud, imposing bark this weekend. It?s a long, hard road to Croke Park, but who?ll be holding aloft the precious Sam Maguire Trophy this September? Apart from the melee and tea throwing incidents at Parnell ... More About: Search , Sportsbook
Summer 2008 set to be a Scorcher!
2008-05-07 17:20:00 Ah yes, summer is upon us. The sun is shining?the weather is sweet and according to Met Eireann and Met Check it?s just the beginning of things to come! In fact, forget Budget travel trips abroad, hit the shops for a new bikini/mankini and head for your nearest beach because this summer could be the ... More About: Sportsbook , Novelty
Golf Betting: The Daly Grind!
2008-05-06 15:43:00 It’s tough being a golfer, especially if your coach, sponsors and wife have all dumped you. Although attention for most golf fans will be squarely focused on the prestigious Players Championship at Sawgrass, there’s some serious value to be had at the Italian Open. Below is a video of John Daly?s preparation for the event ... More About: Golf , Sportsbook
We?re Paying Out On Boris!!
2008-05-02 15:39:00 As of today we are paying out early on Boris Johnson as the winner of the London Mayor Election. Although London?s official results declaration seems to take almost as long as a Zimbabwean election, Labour?s kick in the ballots overnight suggests Boris will be on his way to City Hall. So we figure why wait ... More About: Politics , Sportsbook , Novelty
Slogan Showdown Winner!
2008-05-02 13:51:00 The high calibre of entries made it very difficult to choose a winner in our far more cynical version of UEFA’s Bus Slogan competition. Many thanks to every one who entered, but there can be but one winner. And that is gary Says: May 1st, 2008 at 1:33 am POLISH TEAM BUS Red And White Eagles !!!!!! we also ... More About: Football , Sportsbook , Winner
Trapattoni Here At Last!
2008-05-02 13:33:00 Certain bookmakers were waiting until yesterday to pay out on Trapattoni as Ireland manager, something we did roughly three months ago. If you’re still having trouble getting paid out, cut out this picture and hand it to your less generous bookie. The Italian made his long awaited appearance in front of the Irish media yesterday. He ... More About: Videos , Football , Sportsbook
Boris Backs Himself For London Mayor With Paddy Power!
2008-05-01 18:14:00 Boris Johnson is sensing victory in the race to be London Mayor at today’s election - so much so he’s backing himself with your very own Paddy Power ! At least, I’m fairly sure Boris is backing himself but looking more closely at the picture I’m not so sure he isn’t actually going for 50/1 rank outsider ... More About: Politics , Boris
Ronaldo?s Transvestite Shock - That?s Just Ron-g
2008-04-30 16:17:00 As the bible says, he who has not picked up a transvestite hooker thinking it was just a regular one shall cast the first stone. The news that the formerly bald and buck-toothed Brazilian Ronaldo was caught with not one but three transvestite prostitutes has us lining up the knob related puns. Back in his home ... More About: Shock , Sportsbook , Transvestite
Paying For His Eriks-sins
2008-04-29 13:07:00 Considering that Sven Goran Eriksson has always provoked feelings of general indifference, the news that he’s going to be sacked as manager of Man City at the end of the season was greeted with little more than an apathetic shrug of the shoulders. Sven seems like a nice guy - as long as he ... More About: Football , Sins , Sportsbook
The Premier League Race Is Still On
2008-04-28 14:55:00 It’s not like we haven’t gotten it wrong before but could the mighty Paddy Power be about to get two early payouts wrong. A few weeks ago Man United and Rangers looked bigger certainties than Pamela Anderson, if you’re a scruffy long-haired rocker with a video camera. Oh how things have turned around, kind of. ... More About: Race , League , Sportsbook , Premier league , Premier
Right Foot, Wrong Time
2008-04-25 18:44:00 Maybe it’s because his mind was on the boardroom turmoil at Anfield or more likely it’s because he uses his right leg just for standing and even then, not always successfully, but whatever the reason for John Arne Riise’s decision to stoop and attempt to head clear a cross clear that was little more than ... More About: Football , Time , Sportsbook , Wrong , Foot
The Special One - He?s Fantastic!
2008-04-25 17:05:00 I am sure for most of you this is old news but it’s not often I get to talk about ‘The Special One’. Ever since Jose’s departure from the Premier League I have been searching for ways to keep his spirit alive in the eternal hope that the silver haired scarf clad legend will return ... More About: Sportsbook , Novelty
Slogan Showdown!
2008-04-25 16:11:00 We kind of missed er ? the bus ? on this one. UEFA recently ran a competition whereby people submitted slogans to go on the team bus of each nation at Euro 2008. Unfortunately it’s too late for my suggestion for Austria ? “we’re only here because we’re hosting it!” Actually, that’s not a bad ... More About: Football , Sportsbook , Slogan
Munster Munch?
2008-04-24 13:08:00 I?m not a great believer in destiny and I think you make your own luck in life but in my view the engraver can start working on the Heineken Cup already. Make no mistake Munster are certainties to beat Saracens. Let?s face it their second team effectively beat Wales last week in their ... More About: Sportsbook
Right Foot, Wrong Time
2008-04-23 13:44:00 Maybe it’s because his mind was on the boardroom turmoil at Anfield or more likely it’s because he uses his right leg just for standing and even then, not always successfully, but whatever the reason for John Arne Riise’s decision to stoop and attempt to head clear a cross clear that was little more than ... More About: Football , Time , Sportsbook , Wrong , Foot
We?re In a Little Trouble!
2008-04-23 12:13:00 They like to think they?re a clever bunch, but our work shy colleagues in the Paddy Power marketing department have got us into trouble?..again. First, it was a breast feeding man, now our “Going Short” Financial Trader Ad Campaign has been branded “irresponsible” by The UK Advertising Standards Authority. According to the Authority, our ... More About: Sportsbook
Behaving Like Royal-Tea?
2008-04-22 13:09:00 In the aftermath of the aptly dubbed ‘Storm in the Tea Cup’ melee at Parnell Park, analysts have been quick to act as judge, jury and executioner. The whole episode is a sad reflection of the amateur players who represent such a professional organisation as the GAA. Hopefully, they’ll accept their punishment with some grace, ... More About: Royal , Sportsbook
Punch Drunk at Punchestown
2008-04-21 16:51:00 I was doing a Punch estown preview on TV3 the other night (as you do!) and got a couple of nuggets of info that might be useful to back a few winners over the week….. Noel O’Brien (the handicapper) is basically cacking himself about Leg Spinner for the big Ballymore handicap hurdle on Saturday. If Leg ... More About: Drunk , Sportsbook
Snooker Loopy?
2008-04-18 18:53:00 Once upon a time, not so long ago, 20 million people stayed up into the early hours to watch Dennis Taylor beat Steve Davis in the final of the snooker world championships. 20 million people (some of them women!) watching two fully grown men rolling coloured balls across a table covered in fuzzy felt. The ... More About: Snooker , Sportsbook , Loopy
Calzaghe v Hopkins
2008-04-17 11:27:00 Calzaghe v Hopkins Hopkins is too old and Calzaghe is too white, depending on which fighter you want to believe. The Politically Correct movement has yet to get a firm grip on the world of boxing although it’s never been a sport for the overly sensitive. Who really cares what someone said to you during some ... More About: Boxing , Sportsbook
Free Bet Winner!
2008-04-17 10:35:00 It takes a special kind of man to break into a reasonably serious argument about China hosting the Olympics with the comment: “the flame has gone out in paris?? that girl will stick anything up there, she really has no shame” Jack - we salute you. I have one of my minions getting in touch to reward you ... More About: Free , Sportsbook , Winner
The Title Is United?s
2008-04-16 13:37:00 I see my colleague Rob has already claimed that “United won’t chicken it now“. And the good news for our punters is that the number crunchers in our trading room agree - to the extent that this morning we paid out on United to win the Premier League!. Let’s be honest, they are home and hosed ... More About: Football , Sportsbook , Title
United Won?t Chicken It Now
2008-04-15 14:49:00 “Reet, I’ll be naming you clucky, you I’ll call feathery…eh you can be..eh…yellowy….” This is what is going on in the Ferguson back garden right now. Not just has Alex begun counting his chickens, he’s giving the little cluckers names too…all be it very unimaginative ones. Probably something he should have waited to do until after ... More About: United , Chicken , Sportsbook
The PPP Awards
2008-04-11 16:33:00 The Oscars ? Gwyneth Paltrow won one of those so they’re rubbish. The Grammys ? U2 won a load of those so they’re rubbish. The Golden Globes ? lets not go there, they’re rubbish. The Paddy Power Premier League Awards ? now there?s a gong worth winning! It?s that time of year again. With only ... More About: Football , Sportsbook
Master Blaster!
2008-04-11 16:26:00 First the good news. If you like a bet on golf you can’t beat the Master s. The idiotic qualification criteria means that with a hugely reduced field (of people who can actually win the thing), the 5 places before the event - and still 4 now - mean that an each way investment will at ... More About: Sportsbook , Blaster
All Aboard!
2008-04-09 17:43:00 According to Pub edict, Politics and eh?? fashion should never be brought up in conversation during a heavy night drinking, least of all combined with Sport. Fuelled by alcohol, it?s surely the most lethal, potent cocktail ever known to man. Hailing from a small town that resembles the wild west on a Saturday night, I ... More About: Sportsbook
Nothing Butt Stupid!
2008-04-09 12:42:00 Saturday wasn?t a good day for Paddy Powers across the world. Whilst our Paddy was busy pulling out his hair at the news that we were paying out over ?1 million thanks to our Grand National 10% Bonus in the Northern Hemisphere, the rugby player formerly known as Paddy Power, previous to that known as ... More About: Stupid , Rugby , Sportsbook , Butt
Fawlty At Best!
More articles from this author:2008-04-09 10:42:00 For once the match almost lived up to RTE’s wonderful post match post-match coverage. Watch as Arsenal employee Liam Brady losses the plot after Eamonn Dunphy [fairly accurately] compared his boss Arsene Wenger’s frustrated gesticulations with John Cleese and his Ministry of Silly Walks. Unfortunately, this clip cuts off some of Dunphy?s brilliant first line ... More About: Football , Sportsbook 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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