Birmingham 5/4 To Stay Up Next Season
Championship football betting was brisk on the dramatic final day of the 2008/09 season when, Birmingham City bounced straight back up to the Premier League after beating promotion rivals Reading 2-1 at the Madjeski Stadium.
Sky Bet is offering a variety of football betting special markets on how they will fare in the top flight next season and make Alex McLeish’s men 4/7 to make another immediate return to the Championship. The Blues are 5/4 to stay up. Birmingham are an even money chance with Sky Bet to accrue 35 or more points in the Premier League in 2009/10 and 4,000/1 rank outsiders to win.
Sky Bet’s football betting spokeswoman, Helen Jacob, said: “As well as betting on their local teams to win matches and leagues, customers love to place more unusual wagers on their clubs, so at Sky Bet we try to offer as many bespoke betting opportunities as possible, offering specials on the majority of sides in the English football leagues.”
Champions Wolves are 8/11 to go straight back down next season (evens to stay up) and 5/6 to accrue over 36.5 points next season.
Football betting specialists, Sky Bet, offer 4/1 for all three promoted clubs to make an immediate return to the Championship next season.
In the Championship playoffs betting, Sky Bet make 3rd placed Sheffield United 15/8 favourites to be the third club to go up. The Blades face 6th placed Preston in the play-offs and are 7/4 to win the first leg at Deepdale (Preston 11/8, draw 11/5) and 8/13 to qualify for the final.
In-form Burnley face Reading in the play-offs and are 5/4 to win the home leg (Reading 15/8, draw 9/4) and evens to qualify.
Relegated Norwich, who suffered defeat at the hands of Charlton thanks to a hat trick from Deon Burton, will regroup together with the Addicks in League One next season and the Canaries are 7/1 to go up as champions. Charlton are 13/2 to win League One 2009/10.
Bet on football with Sky Bet and access a wide range of bespoke football betting specials markets ahead of the start of next season. Whether you want to bet on how many trophies your team will win, how many league points they will accrue or when their manager will leave, leading online betting firm, Sky Bet, is your best choice.