You Bet Biggest Betting Weekend In Spl History
With the SPL kicking off early this season, bookmakers, William Hill, have seen an early spike in turnover and are confident that this will be the biggest betting weekend in SPL history with an industry figure of £5 million plus. To celebrate being the official betting partner of the SPL for another season, Hills are offering the top price on all the favourites for the opening round of fixtures.
Football fans have been bereft of any football this summer and to celebrate the early return we have enhanced the prices of all our favourites this weekend, said Hills spokesman Joe Crilly. We fully expect records to tumble and are all but certain that we are in for our biggest ever SPL weekend!
Which side will score the quickest goal of the opening weekend*: 4/1 Celtic; 4/1 Rangers; 6/1 Dundee Utd; 8/1 Aberdeen; 9/1 Motherwell; 10/1 Dunfermline; 12/1 Hibernian; 12/1 Inverness; 12/1 St Mirren; 14/1 Hearts; 14/1 Kilmarnock; 14/1 St Johnstone
*Bets settled on time of quickest goal scored across the weekend
Which game will produce the most goals: 11/4 Rangers/Hearts; 3/1 Hibernian/Celtic; 9/2 Dundee Utd/Kilmarnock; 9/2 Motherwell/Inverness; 11/2 Dunfermline/St Mirren; 6/1 Aberdeen/St Johnstone
Total SPL goals this weekend: 10/3 Under 13; 5/2 13-15; 4/6 Over 15
Enhanced Match Specials:
Rangers vs Hearts:
Jelavic will hope to start this season the way he ended the last by banging in the goals for Rangers.
Jelavic to score anytime and Rangers to win 11/10
Aberdeen vs St Johnstone:
Last season this match was starved of goals with only four scored in the four meetings
Under 2.5 goals in the match 13/10
Motherwell vs Inverness:
Motherwell have not lost in the last seven home games against Inverness
Motherwell draw no bet 8/15
Hibernian v Celtic:
Gary Hooper was the star man for Celtic last season and will be hoping to continue his form this year
Hooper to score anytime and Celtic to win 11/8
Weekend Fixtures:
2/5 Rangers; 7/1 Hearts; 7/2 Draw
11/10 Aberdeen; 5/2 St Johnstone; 23/10 Draw
6/5 Motherwell; 23/10 Inverness; 23/10 Draw
7/1 Hibernian; 4/9 Celtic; 3/1 Draw
19/20 Dundee Utd; 16/5 Kilmarnock; 11/5 Draw
11/8 Dunfermline; 2/1 St Mirren; 11/5 Draw
Bundles:
42/1 All the favourites to win
2006/1 All matches to be drawn
1680/1 All the outsiders to win
Joe Crilly
Press Officer
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