Mobile Betting: Chelsea’s Blues
It doesn’t seem like too many months ago that Chelsea overcame the odds and beat Bayern Munich in their back yard in Germany in the final of the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League, ‘inconveniencing’ a number of the UK’s online bookmakers in the process with their unlikely victory. That’s probably because it was as recent as last May when the London club meant that yet another entry from England’s Premier League would be associated with this great showcase for European football.
But if a week is a long time in politics, it’s a veritable eternity in football, as was seen in Chelsea’s recent loss at home to Swansea in their semi-final first leg in the considerably less luxurious, but no less hard-fought, domestic Capital One Cup competition.
Just in case we might start to worry about the fortune of bookmakers, not many punters will have been in a rush to find their mobiles to place any kind of positive bet on Swansea, who hadn’t beaten the Blues in London for 87 years.
Meanwhile, in the other semi-final first leg tie between League Two paupers Bradford City and the remaining Premier League survivors Aston Villa, it was a giant-killing feat that domestic football inevitably throws up, with the team that cost £7,500 winning 3-1 against the team who probably spend more money on gadgets and toys for the players for the trip up to the north.
As well as these juicy results for online betting companies, they’ll also be rubbing their collective hands together at the moment as a final involving Swansea – a deserved Premier League club already despite their lack of top flight experience (and sponsored by gambling4mobile partners 32Red!), but certainly not most people’s idea of likely champions – and minnows Bradford is looking like a probable line-up, the heavily backed big guns having been unceremoniously dumped in earlier rounds.
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