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…

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…

Premium Times – Nigeria has been implicated in yet another football match-fixing scandal, with the revelation that the friendly match between the Super Eagles and North Korea on the eve of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was doctored. The allegation, published by the New York Times, opens a fresh can of worms in a series of claims that Nigeria has featured prominently for years in the dubious art match-rigging. Nigeria won the friendly against the North Korean side by 3-1. Besides the result, that match also grabbed the headlines over a stampede that occurred before the commencement of…

Reuters – Greece’s OPAP, one of Europe’s biggest betting firms, plans to launch long-awaited online sports betting before the start of the soccer World Cup in June, its CEO said on Thursday, in a bid to capitalize on the popular event. Greece sold a majority stake in OPAP to Czech-Greek investment fund Emma Delta for 652 million euros ($890 million)last year, marking its first major privatization under its multi-billion international bailout. The new management that took over in October promised to implement the company’s plans to expand into online betting, video lotto and scratch cards. OPAP launched a scratch card…

Slate – Sharjah was a short drive up the road from Dubai, but it felt like a world away, a face of the United Arab Emirates that most Westerners never saw. Sharjah didn’t look like a place where someone could get rich overnight. This made it a fitting location for the criminals who had infiltrated the game of soccer. Their specialty was illusion, and they were about to pull off their latest ruse, one that would bring a lucrative return after just 90 minutes. The match set for that day—March 26, 2011—was a friendly between the national teams of Kuwait…