No, it's just a peculiarity of the betting market in that you can effectively get odds of around 50-1, if you exclude the scenario where both finish on 35 points and we concede our 14 goal difference over Cardiff. There’s actually a few easy quid to be made seeing as you can get Cardiff to be...
This. The only teams to beat Utd at Old Trafford this year have been City, PSG and Barca.
For what it's worth, Betfair Sportsbook now offfering 13-8 and 19-1 on Cardiff for each game - that returns £52.50 per pound if you do a double.
Good spot. Just had a look at Oddschecker for the odds for the Palace and Man U games, and Betfair Sportsbook have them at 31-20 and 17-1 respectively, so you can actually get slightly higher with £1 returning £45.9 (approx 45-1). Won't make up for the dissapointment, but a cheeky twenty pays...
They'll need to win by 4 or 5 or for Chelsea to drop points at home to Watford to still have a realistic chance of 4th on the final day. Although both scenarios are possible seeing as the Watford game is sandwiched between Chelsea's Europa league semi, and Huddersfield are shite.
I believe 5th...
We shut up shop, preserve the GD and hope to get a late winner from a set-piece. Going for it against either Arsenal or City will result in heavy defeats.
Mental isn’t it? Apart from the fact that professional pride and risk to livelihood will make sure that no PL player is ever going to throw a game, there’s £2m up for grabs for every league position, and Palace can realistically overtake West Ham to finish 10th.
Palace players and manager are pros and wouldn’t consider gifting a win to Cardiff, even if it meant that we’d definitely get relegated, so there’s certainly no chance that they’re going to throw away 3 points and the chance of a top half finish on the outside chance that Cardiff would then go...