It is hard to look past Jürgen Klopp’s title defenders Liverpool when predicting who will come out on top again in the 2020-21 Premier League season. However, the Reds don’t represent value for bettors as they are odds-on to claim another victory. For this reason, it may be shrewd to consider which other teams have a realistic chance of toppling the Merseyside giants. Tottenham Hotspur have just brought in one of the world’s most potent attackers in Gareth Bale, and the Welshman has been a trophy magnet in his glittering career. Could his addition push Spurs on to an unlikely…

Mark Davis was beaming as he posed with fans behind a black and silver “Las Vegas Raiders” banner. He made a few jokes before delivering a $500 million commitment to a new stadium in the city for his team. Then the owner of the Raiders got serious about the prospects of getting fellow NFL owners to allow him to move from Oakland to a city the league has long shunned because it has legal sports betting. “Let’s give them an offer they can’t refuse,” Davis said. “They’re going to approve it based on that.”  Little more than an idea a…

Betway has rolled out a new television advertising campaign to coincide with the start of the 2015-16 English Premier League football season. Due to be broadcast in the UK and Ireland, the campaign has been designed to showcase how the Betway mobile application can help bring fans closer to the action. Created by the Above+Beyond agency, the campaign highlights the markets on offer from Betway, as well as the operator’s ‘Insider’ blog that gives customers betting tips and advice. UK pay-television broadcaster Sky will feature the adverts during domestic league and cup games on its Sky Sports service, while commercial…

Police in Italy have arrested more than 50 people as part of an investigation into allegations of match-fixing in domestic football. According to the BBC, prosecutors said they have uncovered an alleged network between club presidents, coaches, players and some management members. Those detained by police include players and directors from approximately 30 clubs in the country’s third and fourth divisions, while over 70 people are also under investigation in the inquiry led by prosecutors in the southern town of Catanzaro. The police, who have suggested possible links to Mafia organisations, are in the process of studying suspicious results in…

iGaming Business – The European Sports Security Association (ESSA) has highlighted tennis and football as the two sports that generated the most unusual betting patterns during 2013. In its ESSA Integrity Report 2014, the organisation recorded 148 unusual betting patterns, with an additional 30 alerts found to be suspicious and subsequently referred to the relevant sporting and regulatory authorities. Of the alerts registered in 2013, 44% were in relation to tennis while 38% referred to unusual betting in football. Snooker was the next highest sport, having accumulated 3.5% of all alerts in the last year. A betting pattern is only…

More match-fixing took place in England than anywhere else this season, according to a damning report presented at the European Parliament on Tuesday. Eleven English games were found to have fallen victim to betting fraud by Federbet, an organisation of top European casino owners and bookmakers which monitors suspicious gambling patterns. That was more than was identified in any other country, providing a devastating blow to English football’s reputation for integrity. Ten of the fixtures named by Federbet took place in the Conference North and South, the level of the game at which an investigation by the Telegraph last year…