Time for another installment of our Eurovision Song Contest betting odds run-through, and we can't tell you how jazzed we are about telling you about people you don't know singing songs you'll maybe hear once in your life.
The stage design for the Eurovision Song Contest is particularly interesting this year, featuring independently moving LED panels, pivoted scenery, a number of projected backdrops and… are you actually still reading this? Wow – you guys are way hardcore.
Here are the latest Eurovision betting odds for Israel and Latvia, with help from PaddyPower…
Israel (pop. 6,876,883; a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean sea) – Eddie Butler, Together We Are One. Eddie Butler is a man with a hidden Eurovision past; in 1999 he was part of Eden, the Israeli Eurovision representatives, and finished in fifth place. This year, though, Eddie is flying solo with Together We Are One, a song which is either about joining together the disparate strands of a divided and troubled nation or the world's clingiest boyfriend. We wouldn't hold our breath if we were Eddie – Current Eurovision betting odds – 100/1
Latvia (pop. 2,331,500; a country in northern Europe) Cosmos, I Hear Your Heart. Latvia is a very small country, and small countries have to make the biggest noise to get noticed, right? And what's bigger than the Cosmos? It's a noble effort, but it's a shame, as Cosmos are basically the Latvian G4. There's a few more of them, though, and one of them does beatboxing. Don't try to think of anything worse than that, you're just wasting your time. I Hear Your Heart is possibly the creepiest-titled Eurovision song ever – just about as close to I See Dead People as you're likely to find – and it has lyrics seemingly written by a ticked-off pensioner: "In a world that is beeping and blaring/ Growing louder every day/ I cover my ears/ But none of the noise will go away." Current Eurovision betting odds – 50/1
We’ll be listing all the other Eurovision entries in the run-up to the contest. If you can’t wait, check out the Novelties section of Paddypower to see all the latest Eurovision betting odds. Don't forget that Paddypower give you a free £10 bet when you open an account with them. Good luck!
[story by Stuart Heritage]
eva says
Hi there the old ticked-off pensioner is a poet for all his life… how dear you talk like that.I would love to see how any english person writes lyrics in latvian… yeh shure… as they could speak any other language..aaah “I would love to kill somebody” for the things you have wrote,you can say,that you dont like cosmos… or theyr song but this is to much..
Israel says
Eddie Butler, my dadie will spend all my money on you! your chances to win are extremely far from 1%! the battle will be hard, but don’t let your spirit fall! I will fly to Greece and make my vote to you, maybe it will make them give us 10 points and not 8! (They will give 12 to cyprus anyways). Just dance like crazy! Well, to everyone who reads this, just forgive me for being a 13 years old teenager whose life are far from being interesting. But I believe. Nobody can stop Eddie from conquering the screens! Even not the betting odds!