Betting Extra - Congratulations: Eurovision 50 Betting Odds - Part Two

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This Saturday sees Congratulations: Eurovision 50 taking place in Copenhagen. It’s a special Eurovision birthday competition to find the best Eurovision song of the last 50 years. And we’re profiling the betting odds of the finalists.

The last 50 years have seen the Eurovision fortunes of the UK take a nasty tumble. Time was when we could just turn up at a Eurovision contest, half-heartedly mumble a song with a name like Blimpy Blimpy Bloo Bloo and walk it. Now we couldn’t win Eurovision to save our lives. It’s because the voting has become political of course, not because all the songs we enter suck a lot of big arse.

Here’s today’s batch of classic Eurovision betting odds, with help - as always - from Betfair.com…

The Olsen Brothers: Fly On The Wings Of Love - Eurovision winner in 2000. Sadly the Olsen Brothers haven’t got anything to with the skinny Olsen Sisters. The 2000 Eurovision Song Contest was almost terminally dull - not even the pansexual Israeli entrants snogging as many men and women as they could lay their hands on could liven up the event. Fly On The Wings Of Love was as bland as the title suggests - lyrically it’s all touching the sky and the moon shining bright on a summer night. Not a highlight. Current odds - 29/4

Johnny Logan: What’s Another Year? & Hold Me Now - Eurovision winners in 1980 & 1987. Johnny Logan is the Eurovision Midas. Anything he touches turns to Eurovision gold - he’s the only artist to have two shortlisted songs in Eurovision 50. In 1980 he beat the awful-sounding UK entrant Prima Donna with What’s Another Year?, a song that would be depressing if it wasn’t so dull. Then in 1987, he managed to win again with Hold Me Now, containing lyrical gems like "lo-o-ove," "fe-eell," and "tear-ear-ears." Current odds - 6/1

Dana International: Diva - Eurovision winner in 1998. This is more like it - Dana International was a transsexual Israeli who’d stolen her name from a former Eurovision winner. And she still wasn’t the weirdest act of the night. That job fell to German Guildo Horn, whose performance of Guildo Loves You All still ranks as one of the bizarrest things ever seen on TV. But it was Dana International singing a song about powerful women that won over all of Europe. Current odds - 27/2

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