Manchester City have caught up Chelsea at the top of the league and both teams will be looking for three points as they cross the half way point in the season. Chelsea face Newcastle, who ended their previous unbeaten run earlier in the year.  Manchester City travel to Everton who have lost their last four games. The betting offers for this weekend primarily consist of enhanced odds on the Super Sunday fixtures. Lets go…

Offer: Pick your own money back

Betfair are allowing customers betting on the Sunderland v Liverpool, and Man Utd v Southampton games to pick their own cashback. The liverpool specials are largely orientated around a Liverpool victory and Liverpool goalscorers. The latter is themed around Man Utd being victors with goals from Rooney and Van Persie. Visit the Betfair website for the full list.

Offer: Various Price Boosts

Nothing too sexy from Sky Bet this weekend, just a couple of price boosts. There is a Super Sunday price boost, which is Arsenal and Man Utd to both win increasing from 6/4 to 3/1. This will be on the site from 9am Saturday, so hold on for now if you plan to bet on that outcome. The other price boost is Chelsea, Man City, and West Brom all to win increasing from 7/2 to 5/1.

Offer: Double Odds

Given there are not many offers this weekend, we thought we’d wheel out one of the on-going promotions. For the weekend fixtures, if you bet on the fist goal scorer with Boylesports, and the goal is scored within the first twenty minutes, Boylesports will double your odds.

Offer: Enhanced odds

One just for new customers. Bet Victor are offering enhanced odds on the Arsenal v Stoke game of 5/1 for Arsenal to beat Stoke. Arsenal are the likely favourites for this game, however the maximum stake you can bet is only £5, so you don’t stand to win too much. Bet Victor offer a free £25 free bet for new customers, so we’d probably favour that ourselves.

Offer: Enhanced odds

Finally Unibet. Again, it’s enhanced odds, for both Man Utd and Arsenal to both win. You’ll receive odds of 6/1, with the maximum bet being a bit more than what Bet Victor is.  Sadly it’s just for new customers again.

Both Manchester United and Liverpool have had disappointing seasons. Louis van Gaal continues to reform his inherited squad and had a slow start to the season. Brendan Rodgers himself is under pressure as Liverpool continue to get over the disappointment of missing out on the title last season. However, both teams have had recent good form. Manchester United have won their last five games, and Liverpool have picked up seven points out of a possible nine in their last three games. What are we have here is two teams coming into much needed form, and this clash could determine who continues that form. On top of that, it’s one of the most competitive rivalries in the Premier League, so it is no surprise that bookmakers are cooking up lots of betting offers to stir up interest in the game. Here is what is going on…

Offer: Free £50 in-play bet for Man Utd vs Liverpool

It’s not often that Bet 365 have offers which is testament to the strength of this particular fixture. Simply place a pre-match bet, and Bet 365 will award you a free in-play bet to the same value on Sunday. Important to note is that if you place multiple pre-match bets, Bet 365 will award you the free bet based on your first bet. So make sure your first bet is your largest, and the offer is made void if you cash out early.

Offer: Money back if Manchester United win

Sky Bet are going bold with money back if Manchester United win the Sunday fixture. If they do, Sky Bet will refund losing bets in the ‘first goalscorer’, ‘last goalscorer’, ‘correct score’, and ‘scorecast singles’ up to the value of £25. As we said, Manchester United have won their last five games and start as favourites, so quite a strong offer from Sky Bet here.

Offer: Enhanced odds for new customers

Here is an offer for just the Saturday fixtures. Enhanced odds are being a more popular way for bookies to attract new customers. If  you fancy Chelsea (playing Hull), Arsenal (playing Newcastle), and Man City (playing Leicester) all to win their respective games, Boylesports are enhancing the odds from 6/5 to 6/1. The one fixture we think that could throw this is the Arsenal game. Newcastle are in good form at the moment, and beat Chelsea last week so we fancy a draw in that game.

Offer: Enhanced odds for new customers & red card refund

Two from Bet Victor this weekend. First of all, new customers can get enhanced odds of 4/1 on Arsenal to beat Newcastle. Again, for the same reasons as cited in the Boylesports offer, we don’t think this is the best enhanced odds offer, plus the maximum stake is £10. The second offer is a little more interesting. If a red card is shown in the Manchester United v Liverpool game, Bet Victor will refund certain markets losing bets, again up to the value of £10. Given the rivalry of this fixture, it’s a possibility this money-back offer will be triggered.

Offer: Pick your own money back

Again, the televised Arsenal v Newcastle game is Betfair’s pick. Unlike Bet Victor, they are allowing you choose your own conditions for the refund, and the amount is a little larger at £25. The options you can pick from are an ‘Arsenal win’, ‘game ends in a draw’, or alternatively a ‘Newcastle win’. So all options basically(!) The last thing to note that this does not apply to the exchange bets.

Another weekend, another delivery of football. Neutrals will be drawn most to the fixtures on Saturday, as Super Sunday doesn’t feature any teams in the top four. West Ham will be looking to create some space between themselves and Arsenal to maintain their position in the league, whilst Villa have the opportunity to leapfrog Everton, facing bottom team Leicester themselves. Here are the betting offers that the bookmakers are running this weekend:

1. Bet Victor offer some enhanced odds 

Bet Victor are running a promotion of enhanced odds on a Manchester City win versus Everton on Saturday. The game is televised (Sky), and the Manchester City team have some form of late, with a late win versus Bayern Munich followed by some impressive away wins in the Premier League. You can get enhanced odds of 4/1 this weekend for them to continue their recent form, which looks pretty likely, but only if you’re a new customer with a maximum stake of £10. So if you don’t have an account, it looks like a solid way to turn £10 into £50.

2. Betfair are allowing you to pick your own cashback

Newcastle host league leaders Chelsea. Newcastle have surged up the table with a string of wins and clean sheets. However, that form looks to be stalling as Newcastle have picked up one point from a possible six in their last two games. Betfair have a promotion for both new and existing customers, allowing them to pick their own conditions for money-back. The options include ‘Chelsea win and both teams score’, ‘Newcastle win the game’, ‘game ends in a draw’, ‘Costa scores first’, and finally ‘Chelsea win by 2 goals exactly’. All pretty good options and hard to pick between. We’d probably avoid the ‘Chelsea win with both teams to score’ as Chelsea have managed to keep clean sheets in their last four fixtures.

3. Totesport double and treble

Totesport have an on-going promotion, offering double or in some instances, trebling the odds on first goal scorer markets. It applies to just the televised games, which this weekend are the previous games written of, Manchester City versus Everton and Newcastle versus Chelsea. The maximum bonus at £250 allows this one to particularly tasty. If you don’t have a Totesport account, you can also benefit from the same offer with Betfred.

4. £5 free in-play bet from Stan James

Again this is an on-going offer. If you bet £20 on any of the Saturday games, Stan James will give you a free £5 bet to use in either of the Sunday games. Specifically, the free £5 bet can only be used in the in-play markets, so don’t be able to have access to the free bet ahead of kick off.

Arsenal will be looking to bounce back after their mid week defeat to Southampton at the Emirates with a victory against Spurs this weekend. The mind games are already at play with Arsene Wenger warning Spurs that they will be under extra pressure should they build a new stadium, and that the process will come with unforeseen financial issues.

Wenger’s side have the confidence of bookmakers to win today. Currently you can get just odds of 3/4 on them to win, not much return for what historically has been a lively derby. If you don’t have a Betfair.com account already, there is a bit of value you can get. New customers can get odds of 6/1 on Arsenal to beat Spurs, there a free £10 bet on the Ryder Cup to boot. There is a maximum stake of £10,  and it is paid out as a free bet, but to be honest, given how likely an Arsenal win is today, it’s strong offer.

The game is on television which makes it eligible for PaddyPower.com’s ‘pick your own cash back’ offer.  Current triggers for cashback include Adebayor or Sanchez scoring at any moment, plus if its a draw or there is a goal in the last five minutes of the game. It is of course not the only game this weekend. In the early fixture, Liverpool face Everton in their own Derby.

BetVictor.com have an enhanced threefold accumulator for new customers. It’s on some of the 3PM fixtures, with them paying out 5/1 on Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City all to win. We know from hearing from you that Leicester’s victory against Manchester United last weekend pleased a lot of you, but unfortunately did mess up a lot of people’s accumulators. With Manchester United’s defence as it currently stands, we’d probably opt for the free £25 free bet offer instead!

It’s time to cast aside the Scottish Independence debates and unite through the power of the Ryder Cup. We remain one nation, and can share in our common interest of defeating the Americans. On Friday the biennial golfing competition kicks off and it’s the turn for Scotland to host.

At time of writing, Betway have Europe down as 2/5 favourites to lift the trophy which does not come as a surprise, especially when you think the Americans have not won on European soil in 21 years. Just when a little bit of optimism could sneak through, it is shut down with a couple of the offers betting sites have available. Betway.com are actually offering to refunds on the winner bets up to £25 if Europe loses outright. Skybet.com are running similar promotion, with a maximum refund of £150 and a few extra markets to bet on. Clearly, they have a lot of confidence in Europe being victorious.

One of the reasons for that confidence is current world number one Rory Mcilroy.  It is Rory who Tom Watson, the American captain aims to beat above all. Watson reckons targeting Mcilroy would deal Europe a physiological blow. If you’re looking to bet on the matches, PaddyPower.com have an offer for the Ryder Cup that will be of interest. They are offering money back as a free bet if your selection is winning after 12 holes, but fails to win the match. There is a maximum refund of £100 on that one.

If there are any new offers that go live between now and Friday, we’ll update the site. For now though, it is difficult to see the Americans pulling off an upset given the confidence of the bookmakers.

Most weeks the bookmakers come up with a money back special to draw in new and existing customers. However, in September there is something a little different. Throughout September Paddy Power are running a promotion that enables customers to pick what money back special they want to apply on their bets. It’s for the games being broadcast on either Sky or BT. If you don’t know which games are on TV, don’t worry, there is a shiny red button on their website with ‘MBS’ on it to distinguish the games the offers apply to.

When we first saw the offer, we thought it Paddy Power were being crazy enough to allow customers to come up with their own specials, but that isn’t the case. Rather, you get a list of options. As can be seen above, for the Liverpool game one of the options is if Sterling scores at any point in the game. To find the offer, just go to the market which lists all of the ways it is possible to bet on a game. The special only applies to ‘scorecast’, ‘correct score’, ‘first goal scorer’ and ‘last goal scorer’ markets, and you place your bet within the promotional box. There is a maximum refund of £100 per customer so that should keep you busy.

Premiership action resumes this weekend after the international break, with all teams in action apart from Man Utd and QPR who play Monday night. It’s the biggest weekend of the season so far with pick of the fixtures being Arsenal vs Man City. That being said, there will be a lot of attention on the Monday game given Man Utd’s poor start to the season and all of the new signings they have made. A lot of people have enjoyed their demise and fans will be keen to see Louis van Gall pick up his first win. Of course with the football back, so are the bookies with their offers. We’ve picked out the highlights for the weekend.

Fans of football accumulators should head over to StanJames.com this weekend. They’re running a ‘both teams to score’ (BTTS) offer on accumulators. Bet £5 on a treble (or higher) on both teams scoring, and whether you win or not, they will credit you with a free £5 bet. This is a strong offer for the weekend since usually money back offers usually require you to lose your bet to be paid out.

New and existing PaddyPower.com can take advantage of their ‘chose your own money back’ special. The offer applies to any games which are on Sky/ BT which this weekend includes Arsenal vs Man city, Liverpool vs Aston Villa, and Man Utd vs QPR. Look out for our blog post tomorrow explaining how it works, but in short you get a selection of circumstances that would could occur to trigger money back on losing bets.

BetVictor.com offer a free £25 to new customers, however this weekend they have an alternative offer for you to chose from. They have enhanced price of 4/1 on Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd to win their games. Chelsea play Swansea at home, Liverpool play Aston Villa and Man Utd host QPR. The maximum stake you can place for this offer is £10, and if it comes in, you’ll get back £40 plus your stake. Without the offer, it’ll bring back £23 so you’re basically getting an extra £17.  It’s not a bad offer, but going through the math we’d opt for the £25 free bet instead.

The World Cup is the dominating sport this summer but Wimbledon should not be forgotten. As we enter into the second week of the tournament, Andy Murray looks to continue the defence of his title in his next game against Kevin Anderson. His form has been good so far but the true test will when he faces one of the higher seed participants. Federer and Nadal (just about) have made it into the fourth round, along with Djokovic. Questions remain about Djokovic’s ability to progress far in this year’s tournament due to injury.

Regular readers hoping to find betting offers specific to Wimbledon 2014 will share our frustration. Generally, bookies just aren’t running specials for it, rather choosing to focus on the football instead. We’ve gone through all of the bookies and found just two who are doing anything – Paddy Power and Ladbrokes. Not the strongest offer from Paddy Power either. If you make five bets of at least £5, PaddyPower.com will give you a free bet of £5. Runs all the way up to the 6th July, but each qualifying bet must be at odds at least 1/5. For punters putting down lots of small bets, this one could appeal.

Ladbrokes.com is a bit more interesting (but ends tonight, doh). Bet on any Mens or Womens outright winner, and if they come second Ladbrokes will refund your bet up to the value of £25. If you’re able to take advantage Murray’s form looks good right now.

EDIT: Betway.com have got in touch to bring it to our attention an offer they have for Wimbledon. Bet on any Men’s single game for outright winner, and if that player loses the game after having a two sets, Betway will refund your bet up to £25.  Best of the bunch now!

Today the Guardian published research indicating that England’s early exit from the Brazil World Cup would cost the economy hundreds of millions of pounds. Going into the tournament, many of the betting websites offered longer odds on England to win the competition to entice new customers. Paddy Power even offered new customers 100/1 to get players to sign up with them; they must be pretty satisfied with that decision.  Despite this, clever punters bet with their minds and not their hearts so there is still value to be had.

Let’s not forget that there is still one England game to go versus Costa Rica. BetVictor.com have a promotion called ‘penalty payout’. If a penalty is scored at any moment during the game, the bookmaker will refund losing bets on selected markets including correct score, and first/last goalscorer up to the value of £25. There have been some soft penalties in the competition so far, but this special does rely on England being one of the two sides required to put away a penalty.

Across all games Unibet.com are running the promotion ‘injury time insurance’. It’s opt in so you must go their website and enter your username. If a goal is scored in injury time, Unibet are refunding losing bets in selected markets but to a high limit £100. Last night Unibet punters would have their bets refunded as Messi left it until the 91st minute before scoring to sink Iran.

The Brazil World Cup has been full of goals and has lacked draws. Following offering punters long odds on England, PaddyPower.com have gone for the next safest betting offer with refunds on 0-0 draws. Bets must be placed before kick off (understandably) and again there are limited markets that the offer applies to.

That’s about it for specials at the moment. It’s our understanding that bookies haven’t enjoyed the best World Cup. The lack of shock results, and the top players scoring in their respective games have meant punters have a relatively successful tournament so far.