ASTON VILLA MANAGER AND RYDER CUP TEAM BETTING ODDS

A 6-0 dressing down at St James’ Park on Sunday could have all but ended Kevin MacDonald’s aspirations to land the Aston Villa manager’s job on a fulltime basis. MacDonald was the bookmakers’ favourite to become the club’s next permanent manager after a 3-0 win on the opening day of the season was followed by a 1-1 draw in Vienna in midweek.However, the manner of the defeat at Newcastle is likely to force Randy Lerner into looking elsewhere for Martin O’Neill’s replacement. USA manager Bob Bradley is now favourite to takeover after he declared that he would be interested in discussing the role, Sven Goran Eriksson and Jurgen Klinsmann are also being mooted as possible candidates.Checkout Betfair for the most accurate and up to date betting odds on who will be named the next Aston Villa manager.In golf, Colin Montgomerie faces a selection headache ahead of naming his Ryder Cup team. Peter Hanson’s play-off victory at the Czech Open on Sunday has catapulted him in line for an automatic position in the team relegating Paul Casey out of the top nine.It means that Monty has four of Europe’s top players outwith the automatic qualification places and just three wildcard picks to use. Casey, Padraig Harrington, Luke Donald and Justin Rose will all be on tenterhooks as they await their captain’s decision as to which of them will be representing the continent at Celtic Manor at the beginning of October.Stan James are offering betting odds on who the Scot will pick for his team. Harrington looks to be a shoe-in at odds of 1/33, leaving Rose (4/11), Casey (4/9) and Donald (1/2) battling it out for the two remaining positions.Europe are the 8/13 favourites to regain the Ryder Cup this summer whilst it is 13/8 that USA win and 10/1 for the tie.