Outright Odds: 750/1
Group D Winners: 14/1
Irans last appearance in the World Cup, back in 1998, produced a shock 2-1 victory over the United States, in what could have been described as a very diplomatic result. After qualifying emphatically for this years tournament, including a...
Outright Odds: 12/1
Group C Winners: 13/8
New coach Marco van Basten has proven to be a revelation off the pitch as much as he was on it since taking over the Dutch national team. Plucked from an obscure youth coaching role at Ajax where he kept his head down and had low...
Outright Odds: 8/1
Group A Winners: 4/9
Former national favourite and Tottenham Hotspur diving enthusiast Jurgen Klinsmann takes control over the next generation of German players who are keen to end 16 years of hurt and win the World Cup for a fourth time on their own...
Outright Odds: 13/2
Group B Winners: 8/13
Weve seen it all before and do the tabloids genuinely believe this is Englands best chance of success? What, again? Another year, another major tournament England are expected to win, yet they always bow out with a whimper. Why should this...
Outright Odds: 300/1
Group A Winners: 9/1
Ecuador qualified for their second World Cup finals in succession on the back of a remarkable home record which included victories over both Brazil and Argentina. So should punters rush out and lump on the huge 3001/ (Bet365) odds available...
Outright Odds: 33/1
Group E Winners: 9/4
The Czech Republic may be ranked by FIFA as the second best team in the world behind Brazil and the best in Europe but they made hard work of qualifying for the finals. Pitted against Holland in qualifying, they lost home and away and also...
Outright Odds: 66/1
Group F Winners: 6/1
Croatia enter their third successive finals and will look for a repeat of the heroics of 1998 rather than the embarrassment of 2002. They topped a difficult qualifying group which included Bulgaria and Hungary and remained unbeaten over 10...
Outright Odds: 3/1
Group F Winners: 1/4
What else is there to be said about Brazil? They are the only team to have participated in every World Cup finals and are five times winners in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. They have also finished as runners up twice in 1950 and 1998....
World Cup 2006 Group Stage Review – Phase One – Part Two
All 32 teams have played one match each as the World Cup has begun in explosive fashion, but are things going according to plan for the favourites or are the underdogs having a say in proceedings? This is a short...
World Series of Poker: How World Series of Poker begun
Though the World Series of Poker made its official debut in 1970, the idea of the Horseshoe’s annual tournament was actually conceived more than two decades
earlier.
In the summer of 1949, as the story goes,...
The fairer sex is fast becoming a dominating presence at nearly every casino online, and not merely as some mans lucky charm. Back in 2002, a study revealed that women made up about 60% of all casino online players. The pit boss only knows what the numbers are today (though one study puts it at...
The Croatian national football team has played in international tournaments as a national team since Croatia’s independence in 1990-1992 and is controlled by the Croatian Football Federation.
The team played in their first major tournament in 1996 and has been a strong force in...