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This Weeks Sports Betting Preview - By Rick Elliott
Rooney Gets The Send-Off He Deserves
Wayne Rooney plays for England for the 120th time on Thursday night, in a friendly international against the United States at Wembley. He won’t start the game, wear the captain’s armband and his involvement may be no more than a brief ceremonial appearance at the end of the meaningless fixture. To suggest this honour devalues caps seems ridiculous when you remember some of England’s abject efforts in recent international tournaments. Rooney is England’s record scorer and deserves this special recognition and it seems like sour grapes from former players who disagree. At the other end of the scale OLDHAM are 8/11 with Ladbrokes to beat Hampton and Richmond in the first round of the FA Cup tonight.
Cheltenham stages the track’s biggest meeting after the Festival from Friday to Sunday. The famous home of jumps racing won’t attract a crowd of festival proportions for Saturday’s fixture will still get over 30,000 race goers through the door. The highlight of the three day meeting is the BetVictor Handicap Chase, a race that has had many names in the past including for the older generation the Mackeson Gold Cup. FRODON, trained by Paul Nicholls, ticks many of the boxes and is the ante post selection at 16/1 with William Hill. Carlisle stages a decent graduation chase over two miles today (2.35) and DOLOS for Nicholls is the tip at 6/4 with Betfair.
The European Tour has its season finale from Thursday this week in the form of the DP World Tour Championship which is the final counting events for the Race to Dubai. Open champion Francesco Molinari looks home and hosed in the battle to be the top dog in Europe. Tommy Fleetwood won the honour last season and he looks booked for second place this time. Molinari has already grabbed a major and FLEETWOOD has the game to win on e of the big ones and is 40/1 with Ladbrokes to win the 2019 Masters Tournament.
England beat Sri Lanka by 211 runs in the First Test, bowling their hosts out for 203 and 250 in each innings. Playing conditions suited the home team and their spinners should have had an advantage. It will be difficult to reverse the form for the second match which begins early on Tuesday morning in Kandy. ENGLAND are 5/4 to take a 2-0 lead in the three-Test series.
