I'll be placing my first Eurovision 2008 punts tomorrow(today) - this one and the lay of Ireland as good as definites.
This really is a corker. Its 180 to win, that's massive. It was trading at about 80-90 until the draw for the semi came out, but I think there's a little too much importance attached to the bad draw.
It's number 2, and Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are probably the weakest in the whole semi, so I really don't see much of a disadvantage. It'll stick out like a sore thumb in the middle of some real dross.
The only question mark beyond that is that it's Israel, but as we say it's a bit different, and on a musical level has quite a bit of appeal - it's almost a Muslim type sound, popular in Turkey and the South East European countries perhaps(and there are a lot of them)?
Yes I'm mightily excited about this one now Mick - let's whip each other into a mad frenzy about it over the next 10 days until we're convinced it's gonna hose up.
