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As the African Cup of Nations gets into its stride, betinternet.com takes a brief look at the tournament, hosted in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon jointly.

The tournament is lacking some of Africas more well known teams, such as Nigeria, Egypt and Cameroon, but the likes of the Ivory Coast mean that the Premiership is by no means underrepresented.

With Day 2 in progress, the only confirmed results were in group A. The opening game saw hosts Equatorial Guinea beat Libya by a goal with a 1-0 victory. This was then followed by an upset as Senegal lost to Zambia, the minnows were greeted with scenes of jubilation at the final whistle. The teams then get a 4 day break between each fixture.

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To brighten up a dull Tuesday a big run is expected from David Pipes Painter Man in Leicesters 0-110 Humberstone Handicap Hurdle at 4.10pm this afternoon.

Injury prone in the past, this is a horse whos only had 16 career starts despite being a 10-year-old, and he can defy top weight off a mark of just 110 in a race which might not take too much winning, especially given his love of heavy ground.

If theyve got him back to somewhere near his best form he ought to go very close in this company.

Some of the 5/2 available with any of Boylesports, Stan James and William Hill looks the way to go.

After a dour goalless encounter at St Andrews, Wolves and Birmingham face off again for a place in the FA Cup fourth round with viewers hoping for a slightly more entertaining contest.

Possessing home advantage this time, Mick McCarthy’s troops are Skybet’s 21/20 favourites while Stan James price the Blues at 29/10 to cause a mini-upset at Molineux and it’s 12/5 with Betfred for another draw, leading on this occasion to extra-time.

It’s easy to see why the bookies have quoted the sides in this way, after all, Wolves are a Premiership team, playing on their own patch, against Championship opposition but this is the first of two derby clashes in the space of a few days for McCarthy’s men, who entertain Aston Villa on Saturday and there is no doubt about which game the Wanderers boss will consider more important.

McCarthy could make changes for this one then, which could prove decisive against a City side buoyed by an emphatic 6-0 victory at the weekend and punters can capitalise by backing a Birmingham smash-and-grab. For the b

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The Swiss stock exchange was plagued by technical issues on Friday morning, leading to a delay in access to some of the most commonly traded markets of up to 3 hours- the latest in a series of technical glitches, giving rise to calls for more robust trading infrastructure across the industry as a response to growing trade volumes.

Trading on the SIX Swiss Exchange was subject to a lengthy delay on Friday morning, following a significant technical issue which affected trading across some of the countrys largest companies and most heavily traded derivatives.

The delays affected trading until the afternoon, causing prompts from some for investment in more technically robust systems to deal with increasing volumes and trading complexities.

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Can Baltimore’s Ray Lewis-led defence stop New England?

“Such is the love for the Pats that the market has them at a fairly tight [1.33], a price which will probably become even less generous as people catch up with the weekend’s events.”

Ray Lewis and co. could just land an upset in the AFC, says Richard O’Hagan, against a team that boasted the league’s second best offence but its second worst defence

Denver Broncos 10-45 New England Patriots Wildcard week was supposed to provide the game where the Tim Tebow train hit the buffers.

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