{"id":94,"date":"2008-05-24T16:43:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T15:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/2008\/05\/24\/place-your-bets\/"},"modified":"2009-04-28T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T10:06:56","slug":"place-your-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/2008\/05\/24\/place-your-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"Place your bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so my last post before the post-mortem tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>I really want <strong>Charlotte Perrelli to win<\/strong> <strong>for Sweden <\/strong>more than anyone else. I&#8217;d love to go to Sweden next year! Chatting to Brian, a friend and scholar of Karen&#8217;s from Ireland, he had to give directions to a backing singer with Charlotte (the blond one I think) as she had got lost &#8211; how funny is that!\u00a0 This singer was saying to him that she knows that she&#8217;s not going to win, that&#8217;s she&#8217;s very happy, and that a top 5 finish would be great.\u00a0 I think that everyone is saying that today &#8211; the Contest is too competitive.\u00a0 However, to complete my top 10, I&#8217;d like to see these songs well placed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iceland<\/li>\n<li>Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/li>\n<li>Israel<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>Greece<\/li>\n<li>Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Turkey<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>Albania<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a big shout-out to &#8216;my brother from another mother&#8217;, Andy Abraham, and as Terry Wogan would say &#8216;let&#8217;s cheer him on with word and gesture&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so my last post before the post-mortem tomorrow! 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