IG Sport: It's The Final Countdown

LONDON, October 18 /PRNewswire/ -- If those shelves need varnishing this weekend make sure you get them done early as come Saturday night the feast of sport begins. First up is the Rugby World Cup final between England and South Africa, followed by Sunday's final race showdown in the Formula 1. Most people tend to have an opinion on both so IG Sport and extrabet have pulled out all the stops to offer the best markets in the game.

extrabet, the fixed odds betting arm of IG Group, has England down as a straight 9/4 shot to win the final but there has been plenty of interest elsewhere. The 'Big Game Hunting' market runs as follows: Giraffes - A lock to score a try? 3/1. Hippos - A front row to score a try? 7/2. Big Catt - Mike Catt to score a try? 10/1. Cheetahs - Yellow card to be shown? 4/5. Jungle VIP - Wilkinson Man of the Match? 6/1. What do you reckon?

IG Sport, the sports spread-betting arm of IG Group, has South Africa as 7-9 point favourites in the final. For those unversed in the ways of spread betting, this punting medium simply asks you to go high ('buy') or low ('sell') of a price. The more right you are the more you win, and the more wrong you are the more you lose. Therefore if you think England will beat South Africa then you would sell their points supremacy at 7 for say GBP10 a point. If they win by 1 point you will be right by 8 points. At GBP10 per point that's an GBP80 win! Of course if they lose by 9 points you would be wrong by 2 units, that would be GBP20 owed. Jonny Wilkinson's game points are 9-10 by the way.

Lewis Hamilton has it all to do in Brazil this weekend with the World Drivers' Championship proving to have more twists and turns than an alpine rally. Skulduggery could be in the air as we've seen in F1 before and Hamilton and fellow title challenger/team-mate Alonso are just 7/1 to take each other off the track this weekend. Add to that the fact that Hamilton to win and Alonso to come second in the race is 12/1 you can see how punters see this weekend turning out. For those with a reliable line in crystal balls, Hamilton is 2/1 with extrabet to win the 2008 World Championship.

IG Sport has a veritable smorgasbord of markets on this race but the one tickling the punters at present is one of their Brazilian specials called Carnival. This market is priced at 11-13 with 10 points given if Hamilton wins the Championship, 10 points for the fastest lap, 10 points for winning the race and a further 20-point bonus if he does all three.

Strap in and hold on to your boot laces.

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