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Online bookmaker Boylesports are running a First Goalscorer Cash Back Special for selected matches from the Premier League this week. The big highlights of the weekends’ fixtures are of course Chelsea v Manchester United and Liverpool v Spurs fixtures, both of which have a lot at stake in them. These two matches, along with Stoke v Sunderland, Man City v Fulham and Newcastle v Aston Villa are all covered by the Boylesports First Goalscorer Cash Back Promotion. What is the promotion? Well if you back a First Goalscorer selection in any of these matches, and your selection fails to open the scoring, but does score the second goal of that particular game, then it will be refund time. So if your First Goalscorer bet fails, but that players nets the second goal of the game, Boylesports will pay out lost stake refunds on the First Goalscorer Market. So there is pretty good football betting coverage to take there on the above listed Premier League matches at Boylesports.

Popular bookie Boylesports offer a free £20 bet for new customers registering an account with them. Open a new Boylesports account and make your first bet, and the bookie will match the value of that first bet with a free bet, up to the maximum value of £20. A nice welcome bonus offer from the bookie, putting a bit of free betting cash in your new account for you to enjoy.

Online bookmaker Boylesports a running a First Goalscorer Cash back promotion for FA Cup betting this weekend. In their popular promotion, when you back a First Goalscorer in selected matches, if that bet loses, but your selection scores the second goal of the game, then you will get your lost stake refunded. The selected matches falling under this promotion is Watford v Spurs, Liverpool v Man Utd, Brighton v Newcastle, Sunderland v Middlesborough and Arsenal v Aston Villa FA Cup betting this weekend. There are plenty of great goal scoring options, especially in the big match of the weekend, which is Liverpool v Manchester United. In what should be a hotly contested match, Wayne Rooney is 9/2 and Craig Bellamy 6/1 to open the scoring. In Arsenal’s Premier League clash against Aston Villa, not surprisingly Robin van Persie is 11/4 favourite to open the scoring, while Thierry Henry is back at 4/1. So these bets and any First Goalscorer options in the listed FA Cup matches above are covered by the insurance offered by Boylesports here. So if your First Goalscorer bet loses but your selection nets the second goal of the match, then you will get your lost stakes refunded.

Online bookmaker Boylesports offer a free £20 bet for new customers registering an account. Just register an account and place your first bet of £20 and receive a free bet to the value of that £20. That is a nice way to get started with your new Boylesports betting account, some free betting cash to enjoy on your sports betting with them.

It will be worth paying attention to online bookmaker Boylesports on the weekends for your sports betting as every weekend they are offering Enhanced Prices. The Boylesports Weekend Wonders  promotion from the highly popular bookie gives their customers the chance to pick up some generous odds. The Weekend Wonders offers are time sensitive so you have to know when to hit the website in order to get them. Boylesports offer the Generous Enhanced Prices every Friday at 8 pm (which will be enhanced odds on a sports betting market), Saturday at 10.30 am when they will announce their enhanced odds selection on Horse Racing and then against at 1 pm on Saturday when you learn their enhanced football odds. The Enchanced Market  selections are only going to be active for 30 minutes from the time of being launched, so you will have to get in there quick to take advantage of these enhanced odds, which are for single bets only.

This Boylesports Weekend Wonders offer will be up for grabs every weekend, so you can jump on board with the bookie and grab the chance to grab your enhanced odds. It is a nice little reward offer from Boylesports who offer a £20 free bet for new customers registering an account with them. Simply register a new account with Boylesports, and when you make your first bet on that new account, the bookie will give you a free bet matching the value of your first stake, up to the maximum value of £20.

Online bookmaker Boylesports have their First Goalscorer cash back promotion running for several games this weekend. If the player you backed as First Goalscorer fails to open the scoring, but does score second in the match, then Boylesports will refund your lost stake as a free bet. So a great bit of First Goalscorer betting insurance for you to take with your football betting this weekend.

Manchester United look to break their two match losing streak in the league, with a home match at Old Trafford against Bolton, and this is one of the matches covered this weekend by the Boylesports promotion. United look to reel in leaders Manchester City of course, as the blues head to face struggling Wigan, looking to recapture some of their blistering best form, even though they have been depleted with departures to the Africa Cup of Nations. The other matches covered in this Boylesports money back special, are St Johnstone v Rangers in the Scottish Premier League, Watford v Reading, Newcastle v QPR and Swansea v Arsenal. So plenty of match coverage for the First Goalscorer cash back, and this applies just to single bets placed prior to kick off, and doesn’t count for singles as part of a multiple bet.

Online bookmaker Boylesports offer a free £20 bet for new customers registering an account. The highly popular bookie will match the value of your first stake on a new account with a free bet, up to the maximum value of £20, giving you a nice bit of free cash to enjoy on your new account.

This year’s Masters Snooker gets off to an explosive start this coming weekend at its new home, the Alexandra Palace, when defending champion, China’s Ding Junhui, takes on former title-holder Ronnie O’ Sullivan in the opening round. ‘The Rocket’ beat Ding in the 2007 final but is increasingly looking a light of former days. O’Sullivan had a poor 2011 and hasn’t won a ranking tournament since the start of the 2009/10 season. The demons he faces on a daily basis away from the table will always make him a risky proposition in ante-post lists, but those willing to take a chance on the hugely talented Essex native at ‘Ally Pally’ can get 6/1 at Boylesports and Ladbrokes. Ding Junhui is 133/10 on betfair for a second win in this prestigious invitational tournament and can’t be ruled out. Asia’s most successful-ever player knocked out Mark Williams and Graeme Dott among others en route to his defeat of Marco Fu in the final at Wembley12 months ago but has frozen on the big stages since and is worth taking on in The Masters with Mark Selby.

It was a case of so near but yet so far last season for the 28-year-old from Leicester after he was beaten in the final of both the German Masters and the China Open. But he’s already gone some way towards making amends by winning this year’s Shanghai Masters and The Masters is his favourite tournament and one in which he’s already been successful twice. The bottom half of the draw appears the weaker and gives Selby a great chance of making it to the final again, with veteran John Higgins (a general 7/1) apparently the biggest obstacle lying in his path. But Selby has a decent record against the former world champion and ended 2012 in decent form whereas the Scot had some indifferent results towards the end of last year. Betfred and totesport offer 7/1 against current world number one Mark Selby winning at Alexandra Palace and that will do for me.

As I’ve said, the top half of the draw looks much tougher than the bottom half but the redoubtable Mark Williams will probably make a bold bid to emerge unscathed and can be backed at 12/1 with Ladbrokes and sportingbet. The Welshman still maintains he was robbed in the final of the Shangai Masters and will be out for revenge on Selby but a tricky quarter-final against world champion Neil Robertson (a general 10/1) awaits if the seedings pan out and he could than face Ding Junhui in the semis.

The Lakeside in Frimley Green may have been eclipsed by Alexandra Palace in recent years but will always be the spiritual home of darts and stages its 27th world championships in 2012, albeit being the less high-profile BDO version of the crown. It’s traditionally a lot more open than the PDC World Championship but Martin ‘Wolfie’ Adams has dominated recently and is bidding for a hat-trick of titles this year. Adams is a general 4/1 to retain his crown and looks to have been handed a favourable draw as most of his likely challengers have been placed in the bottom section of the line-up. ‘Wolfie’ begins a record 18th appearance in the BDO World Darts Championships against Scott Mitchell (100/1 with Boylesports and sportingbet) on the first afternoon afternoon as he bids for a fourth world title of his career and looks sure to give supporters a run for their money again this year but last year’s losing finalist Dean ‘Over The Top’ Winstanley will hope to go one better than last term.

‘Young’ pretender Winstanley was also beaten in the World Masters Final and the fact that he went so close in two major tournaments so early in his professional career suggests there will be a plenty of success in the coming years. The recent Czech Open winner can’t meet Adams until the final and Coral and Skybet have the 30-year-old from Doncaster at 6/1.

Winstanley‘s conqueror in the World Masters Final in September, Scott ‘Scotty 2 Hotty’ Waites, must also go on the short-list however. The Yorkshireman is only ranked seven in the BDO rankings but beat Adams in the semis of the Masters and has since gone on to win the British Open and WDF World Cup Singles, where he beat Adams 6-2 in the final. The one thing that goes against Waites, however, is a dismal record at the Lakeside. He went out at the quarter-final stage three times from 2008 to 2010 and was beaten in the second round last year.

You can never dismiss 2009 champion Ted ‘The Count’ Hankey at the Lakeside but he’s very difficult to predict nowadays and his general 14/1 quote is probably about right. I’d much rather have a punt on Tony O’Shea at similar odds. Adrian Lewis has already done this column’s darts fans a favour this year and O’Shea is fancied to make a mockery of his quote of 18/1 from Skybet for the BDO World Darts Championships.

‘Silverback’ O’Shea beat Gary Anderson in the semi-finals in 2009 before losing narrowly in the final to Hankey but was a shock first-round loser last year when heading the seedings. He has the unenviable record of having reached all four finals of the BDO‘s grand slam of darts but yet to win any of them. A switch to the PDC is rumoured to be imminent so this may well be his final BDO tournament and it would be fitting if he ended with a well-deserved success. On paper, only the champion appears to stand between O’Shea and his hopes of reaching the final so those current odds look inflated.

Incidentally, if you have a match bet with Victor Chandler in the BDO World Darts Championships and your selection records a 170 checkout and loses, you will still be paid as if he had won.

Am I the only one a little baffled by the knighthood awarded to Big Brother developer Peter Bazalgette? He didn’t, after all, invent the format but merely inflicted it on the British public. Presumably, his place in the New Year’s Honours List is also for the fact that he’s been closely associated with Deal Or No Deal and Ready, Steady Cook. Somebody in Buckingham Palace or Whitehall must be a fan, though that probably proves that having nobility or a position of power isn’t necessarily a guarantee of good taste.

In all honesty, Celebrity Big Brother 2012 should probably be re-titled ‘I Want To be A Celebrity, Get Me In There!’. It speak volumes about the quality of this year’s rumoured housemates that The Only Way Is Essex cast member Sam Faiers, more shallow than a child’s paddling pool, is still the 5/1 favourite with Boylesports even though she’s already said she won’t be taking part. We are, apparently, to be subjected of three weeks of Frankie Cocozza however. Kicked off the X Factor after he was allegedly heard boasting of a coke-fuelled sex romp, the only question I would ask is why he wasn’t shown the door earlier? The X Factor describes itself as a talent show so how the apparently talentless Mr Cocozza got through the auditions doesn’t say much about those who failed. Appearing on CBB looks another pathetic attempt to gain notoreity and a few quid – is it any wonder that presenters past and present, Davina McCall and Brian Dowling, have been forced on the defensive this week?

Denise Welch has also been popular with punters (6/1 with Boylesports). Best known nowadays for her role in school soap ‘Waterloo Road‘ and as a regular on ‘Loose Women’, I still know her best as the wife of a somebody who used to be in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’  but then I am getting a bit long in the tooth. I can’t work it out, does Ms Welch or her agent really think spending three weeks, and opening herself up to ridicule,  in the company of a bunch of nobodies and never-will-bes will enhance her career? I suppose you could level the same criticism at one-time ‘Eastender‘ Natalie Cassidy, though she undoubtedly has more incentive to be locked away in the new Big Brother house. At least in there she won’t need to worry about what ex-fiance Adam Cottrell is doing to get around his restraining order. Maybe Natalie deserves a break and she can be backed at 6/1 with Boylesports, she’s only 4/1 at Paddy Power.

Plenty of usual suspects face the starter in the latest of what is fast becoming a pre-requisite handicap chase over 2m5f at every Cheltenham meeting. This one is sponsored by Victor Chandler and champion trainer Paul Nicholls once again provides the top weight in The Nightingale (a general 14/1) and a fancied runner further down the weights in the shape of Ghizao.

Ruby Walsh rides the latter so it’s fair to presume he is the stable selection. Bookmakers and punters certainly think so and the eight-year-old, who beat subsequent Arkle Chase winner Captain Chris twice as a novice, is only a general 6/1. He hasn’t run badly in either start this season but never really jumped with any fluency behind Quantitiveeasing over C&D last time and has ground to make up on Calgary Bay on that run.

Henrietta Knight‘s gelding usually runs well at Cheltenham but hasn’t won for a while. But that could all change in this New Year feature if he can lie up with the pace as he’ll be reeling in the front-runners up the hill. At 8/1 with most layers, Calgary Bay looks a cast-iron each-way bet and Duke Of Lucca should also be in the firing-line. Novices don’t have a great recent record in this contest but Philip Hobbs’ charge could be the exception that proves the rule. A very decent hurdler over this sort of distance, he spread-eagled an ordinary field at Wincanton after a couple of sighters and, though his jumping will be put under pressure by these experienced handicappers, it would be no surprise to see him go close at Boylesports and Stan James‘ 6/1.

Crescent Island (14/1 with Boylesports) and Hector’s Choice (20/1 with Victor Chandler) look closely matched on Newbury running behind Chance Du Roy and are capable of making their presence felt but it would need a giant leap of faith to support Cape Tribulation (21/1 on betfair) after he was pulled up early on at Haydock two weeks ago and the bottom six on the racecard are all carrying more than their allotted weight. The best of those may be Havingotascoobydo, who has been placed twice over shorter trips at Cheltenham recently. He can be backed at 7/1 with Skybet and William Hill, though his jumping can still be a little novicey at times. Hell’s Bay won a big prize last season but was pulled up when favourite on his reappearance at Ascot, hence his 14/1 quote from Betfred, Boylesports and totesport. Calgary Bay is taken to land the spoils with Duke Of Lucca to chase him home.

• Calgary Bay to win the Bet With Your Mobile at Victor Chandler Chase at a general 8/1
• Duke Of Lucca to win the Bet With Your Mobile at Victor Chandler Chase at 6/1 with Boylesports and Stan James

A big weight isn’t necessarily a barrier to success in the Coral Welsh National. Many will remember the brilliant-but-flawed Carvill’s Hill blundering and bunny-hopping his way around Chepstow under a welter burden in 1991. Indeed Synchronised, under an inspired A P McCoy, defied 11st6lb 12 months ago and the six-year-old Halcon Genelardais carried 11st3lb to victory in 2006. But, generally speaking, it’s those with less than 11st to shoulder who have held the upper hand in this traditional stamina test in recent times and ante-post punters this year have latched on to Victor Dartnall‘s Giles Cross.

Available at a general 6/1, the nine-year-old undoubtedly has impeccable credentials. A dual course winner, he was just beaten by Synchronised in the race 12 months ago and comes here at the top of his game having ended a frustrating sequence of placed efforts with victory in the Southern National at Fontwell on his reappearance. Viking Blond is only 8/1 with most layers but doesn’t appear that well handicapped on his form over fences so far and more interesting is Le Beau Bai (10/1 with Betfred). Third in the Welsh National two years ago, he came back to form at the track earlier this month. Though he seems to have been around forever, Richard Lee‘s gelding is still only an eight-year-old though was pulled up behind Giles Cross at Fontwell.

Another interesting contender is Galaxy Rock, who represents last year’s successful trainer. Ahead of Ballyfitz (25/1 with Betfred and Coral), subsequent Newbury Hennessy victor Carruthers (10/1 with Boylesports, Victor Chandler and Coral) and recent Newcastle winner Hey Big Spender (18/1 with Victor Chandler) at Cheltenham on his latest start, Jonjo O’Neill‘s stayer still appears to be improving and should give supporters a run for their money at the general 10/1.

The penalised Cannington Brook (16/1 with Boylesports) isn’t certain to confirm Haydock running with runner-up Our Island, however, and Tim Vaughan‘s lightly-weighted novice could be a decent each-way bet here at Boylesports and Paddy Power‘s 25/1 but I’ll put up David Pipe‘s Master Overseer as the value bet. Very lightly-raced, he didn’t do himself justice behind Le Beau Bai at the track earlier this month but this slog through the mud will be right up his street and he normally jumps better than he did last time. At William Hill‘s 20/1, Master Overseer is probably a few points too big and makes more appeal than As De Fer (12/1 with bet365, Ladbrokes and Boylesports) in this grade.

• Master Overseer (Each-Way) in the Welsh National at 20/1 with William Hill
• Our Island (Each-Way) in the Welsh National at 25/1 with Boylesports and Paddy Power

Lee Westwood is a best-priced 4/1 with Victor Chandler to win his first Major in 2012 after ending this year with a victory in the Thailand Championship. No one would be more deserving of a Major next year than the Worksop-born 38-year-old, who has been at the very top of his profession for more years that anyone cares to remember, but that first success in one of the four big tournaments of the year continues to elude hime. If he could just put together four rounds of the quality he showed in the opening 36 holes in Thailand, there are few in world golf who could live with Westwood. Rounds of 60 and 64 had the prize in safe-keeping at the halfway stage and his final 22 under-par total was seven shots too good for US Masters champion Charl Schwartzel.

Another English golfer still seeking a maiden Major  is world number one Luke Donald. I suspect if asked, the world number one would have traded his five victories in the US and Europe in 2011 for one of the Majors but, at 34, he still has a few years ahead of him in which to gate-crash one of the big ones and can be backed at the same 4/1 as Westwood with Victor Chandler to end his wait next year with the US Masters (16/1) currently rated his best chance with William Hill. You can get 9/4 with Victor Chandler that an Englishman wins a Major in 2012, which on the face of it appears fair value as the likes of Justin Rose, Paul Casey and Ian Poulter have all shown enough to suggest they’ll be thereabouts in at least of the couple of the Majors.

It’s been a traumatic year for Tiger Woods but the former world number one has shown he is no back number over the last couple of months and can be expected to storm back up the rankings again in 2012. He is only 7/4 with Boylesports to win a Major next year and 9/2 with sportingbet and Victor Chandler to top the US PGA Tour money list. Donald can be backed at 12/1 with Skybet to repeat this season’s notable achievement while Rory McIlroy is 9/1 with the same firm. American sensation Webb Simpson is 18/1 with bet365 and Paddy Power. McIlroy is 9/2 with Skybet to top the European rankings and win the Race To Dubai.