Eurovision Betting Odds 2007 - Greece & Hungary

It's our last instalment of Eurovision betting odds for the week; we're halfway through now - chin up, you're doing well. And if you're yet to place a Eurovision bet, you should probably do it right now before everyone realises how crap Belarus is.

So what have we learnt over the course of this week? More than you could possibly imagine. We discovered that there's a Junior Eurovision Song Contest rolling along in December, we discovered that the Eurovision Song Contest stage will be shaped like a pike's jaw this year and we also learnt that there'll be some heavy metal cellists playing slap-bang in the middle of proceedings. And for the life of us we couldn't possibly begin to tell you which one of these gives us the freaky creeps more. The jaw. No - the kids. Jaw. Kids. Cellists. Kids. Jaw. Kids. Kids.

Here are today's Eurovision betting odds - for Greece and Hungary - with help as ever from Paddy Power…

Greece (pop. 10,665,898; a country on the southeast tip of Europe, on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula) Sarbel, Yassou Maria

To win Eurovision you need to catch the zeitgeist somewhat, and show that you're at least partially aware of what popular music sounds like. This year, Greece have got it half-right - their entry sounds like what popular music sounded like eight years ago. Oh, we'll cut the dilly-dallying - Yassou Maria by Sarbel is a market-stall knock-off of Livin' La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin, as sung by a little squat man with a reedy mouse's fart voice who dances, for want of a better turn of phrase, like a fucking prick. The lyrics of Yassou Maria hardly make sense, either: "Shake it up, shake it up/ There you go - oh ohh/ Yassou Maria". Forget Wagner, when the apocalypse comes it'll be to the sound of the Greek 2007 Eurovision entry. Current Eurovision betting odds - 14/1

Hungary (pop. 10,076,581; a landlocked country in central Europe) Magdi Ruzsa, Unsubstantial Blues

Well, at least she's honest; the Hungarian 2007 Eurovision entry is a blues song, and it's deeply unsubstantial - like the sort of music you hear in blues clubs on bad 1980s American TV shows. Unsubstantial Blues by Magdi Ruzsa sounds like it was written by a computer program, and the lyrics aren't much better - they're of the "So why did you leave me? Oh why did you leave me? Why?" variety. The only thing the song has going for it is Ruzsa's voice, which could punch a hole in a brick wall. Still, full marks to Hungary for naming its song with its exact description - too bad other countries didn't do the same, because then we're pretty sure the Belarus entry would be called Dreadful Princess Diana Vampire Song. And we'd have voted for it in an instant if that was the case. Current Eurovision betting odds - 50/1

Next week - Eurovision betting odds for Iceland and Ireland. But if that's too long to wait - or you feel like making more money than you know what to do with - head right over to the Paddy Power Eurovision betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds.