LATEST BETTING PREDICTIONS FOR JULY 2

Yaya Toure has teamed up with brother Kolo at Eastlands and becomes Manchester City’s third signing of the summer. City are reported to have paid a fee in the region of £28million for the Ivory Coast midfielder who was deemed surplus to requirements at Barcelona and takes their summer spending to around £60million – still another £60million short of last summer’s outlays.

Toure is a defensive midfielder who plays in a similar role to both Nigel de Jong and Patrick Viera and despite his reputation brings no more to the field of play than those players can. Viera will of course only play a bit-part of the season but with three players now vying for one position in the side Roberto Mancini faces a tough task in keeping his stars happy.
In golf Tiger Woods has been questioned as a witness about his relations with Dr Anthony Galea who has been charged with administering illegal growth hormones to athletes. Woods was questioned purely as a witness and is not believed to have been one of the athletes whom Galea administered the drug to. However, the connection between the two – Galea treated Woods during his rehabilitation from knee surgery – is bad press that Woods could do without.
The world number one is gradually attempting to rebuild his career after a torturous 18 months. The bare facts of a fourth place finish at The Masters followed by a fourth place finish at the US Open have shown that he is not as out of touch with the game as some believe and a return to St. Andrews for The Open this month – he has won on both previous occasions that he has played there – offers a great opportunity to get back on the Majors winning trail.
Tiger is 7/2 with Sportingbet to lift his fourth Open title and 15th Major, and move within three of Jack Nicklaus’s all-time record of 18 Majors.
And finally, the good news for English cricket continues after it was yesterday confirmed that England will host the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy tournament. 
The recently crowned Twenty20 World Champions will be confident that they can go into the tournament on home soil as the 50-over World Champions provided they can carry current form into the upcoming World Cup on the subcontinent.
England are the 13/2 fourth favourites with Stan James for the tournament which gets underway on 19 February 2011.