Wayne Bridge and John Terry are 5/6 with online bookmaker PaddyPower to line up alongside each other when England meet Egypt on March 3rd. With Ashley Cole’s ankle injury ruling him out of the Wembley date his long term understudy will be expected to line up at left-back alongside the man said to have cheated with Bridge’s ex girlfriend. However England manager Fabio Capello may prefer to have a look at the untried Leighton Baines whilst simultaneously side-stepping the Terry-Bridge sideshow. PaddyPower offer 4/6 that Bridge gets the starting nod from Capello with Blackburn’s Stephen Warnock at 3/1 and Man City’s Joleon Lescott 9/2. PaddyPower are also offering various football betting odds on how the two get on during the game, offering 150/1 the two have a fight and 33/1 that Bridge joins in the celebrations should Terry score a goal.
Meanwhile Cole’s ankle injury raises question marks over his World Cup chances and PaddyPower have revised football bets on which other England star will miss the tournament due to injury. Rio Fedinand is 15/2 having suffered back problems already this season whilst Wayne Rooney at 12/1 would be the biggest blow of all to England’s chances and morale.
Darren Haines, spokesman for paddypower.com, said: “There always seems to be one important player who misses the World Cup due to injury and Ashley Cole will already be sweating on his place. England fans will all be wishing Wayne Rooney could be wrapped in cotton wool between now and June.”
Another name in the football world to often hit the headlines is Sven Goran Eriksson and PaddyPower are speculating where next for the much traveled former England manager. It’s 8/13 for a return to International Football with the forthcoming World Cup likely to attract some of the smaller nations to the Swede. A return to the Premier League is 13/2 whilst Sven is 15/2 to go for the money in Qatar and an unlikely 33/1 to repeat his Notts County experiment by going to another League One or League Two club. |
