Wiggins to benefit from Team Sky success

Posted on July 08th, 2011 in Sports Betting Blog

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Pennant claims home fans are crucial to success

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Stoke City’s on-loan winger Jermaine Pennant is dreaming of remaining at the Britannia Stadium and helping the club make the home ground a fortress in the Premier League.

The former Liverpool player is currently on a short-term loan from Spanish club Real Zaragoza until January, but he has impressed at the club as they have recovered from a poor start to sit in the Premier League top ten and the Premier League betting predictions indicate the club can push on.

Pennant has played a vital role in helping Stoke make the Britannia Stadium a tough place for teams to come to his season – with the club winning their last three home games on the trot. Anyone looking to bet on Premier League matches should remember this.

He told the Sentinel he would be “more than happy” to remain at Stoke if the two clubs can come to an agreement about extending the loan deal, and it has been the atmosphere generated by the Stoke fans that has impressed him most during his short time at the club.

Those passionate fans are vital in helping inspire the players at home and making sure they take all three points from tough Britannia Stadium clashes.

“Our home games were always going to be the strongest part of our season,” Pennant said.

“The fans make a massive difference and the big teams seem to struggle when they come here.

Dean Whitehead recently scored his first goal for Stoke City, and manager Tony Pulis has called on the midfielder to find the back of the net more over the rest of the season.

Stoke are a club that need all their midfielders and attackers to chip in with goals if they are to finish in the Premier League top ten, and it is starting to look like Pulis has assembled a strong unit at the club that could have them looking up rather than down.

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Fair Along chasing second John Smith's success

Fair Along: will bid to start his season with a win at Wetherby again

  PICTURE: Martin Lynch  Fair Along chasing second John Smith's win By Peter Scargill 3:20PM 21 OCT 2010 FAIR ALONG returns to action at Wetherby on October 30 when he bids for a second successive victory in the Grade 2 John Smith's Hurdle.

Trained by Philip Hobbs for owner Alan Peterson, the eight-year-old slammed five rivals by 18 lengths in the 3m1f contest last season but was unable to add to his victory in three subsequent outings.

Hobbs, who suggested Fair Along may go chasing again in his recent Racing Post Stable Tour, said on Thursday: "The plan is for Fair Along to go to Wetherby again. He is fine and in really good order at the moment, so we are looking forward to going there with him.

"He was entered in the Cesarewitch on the Flat last week but we thought that, at his age, he didn't really need to be doing that, so we gave it a miss and kept him fresh.

 "It was a great thrill last year when he won the John Smith's Hurdle the way he did. It is the race in the calendar when the conditions are all more or less right for him, so he will go there again and he should run another good race."

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Rooney and Berbatov are key to United success

80 million move from Man United to Real Madrid, the pressure has been on the strikers he left behind at Old Trafford, especially Wayne Rooney.

The England striker was pushed into a more central position last year and reaped the rewards. He bagged 30 goals and led United’s title charge for much of the year, until an ankle injury sustained in the Champions League against Bayern Munich stalled his and United’s progress.

Rooney has since suffered an alarming dip in form. He struggled at the World Cup in South Africa before starting the domestic season poorly, sordid details about his private life being splashed across the tabloids haven’t helped.

Sir Alex Ferguson responded by dropping him to the bench, perhaps in the hope it will inspire Rooney to regain his best form.

And United certainly need him to, especially in Europe. United have began their 2010/11 Champions League campaign poorly with a 0-0 draw with Rangers in a result that was a real shock to people who bet on Champions League games.

A spirited 1-0 in Valencia got things back on track but if they are to go far in this season’s competition, the Champions League predictions show they will need Rooney to fire on all cylinders.

They also need some big performances from Dimitar Berbatov. The Bulgarian has never really got going since his

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Success for Temple Meads in Mill Reef Stakes

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The Ed McMahon trained Temple Meads, with jockey Richard Mullen aboard, visited the winners enclosure after a stylish performance that resulted in a comfortable victory in the Group Two Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury.

Success for Midday as Sariska Refuses Again

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After another refusal to start for Sariska, the Henry Cecil trained Midday ran to success in the Group One Qatar Prix Vermeille at Longchamp.

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