With the domestic football season now all but finished, it is normally at this time of year that football supporters fall in to a state of depression at the prospect of no football for three months but Summer 2012 is certainly set to be one to savour with both Euro 2012 and the Olympic Football tournament providing a more than adequate tonic before the regular season resumes once again in August.

The Group 1 JLT Lockinge Stakes is the highlight of this weekend's racing at Newbury and all eyes will be on the odds on favourite Frankel who makes his seasonal reappearance for trainer Sir Henry Cecil at the Berkshire track. Unbeaten in eight career races the four year old by Galileo is as short as 1/3 with bookmaker Paddy Power to get this season off to a winning start.

The headlines in the newspapers and across the TV are dominated by the state of the European Union, the plight of Greece and the knock on effect this is having across Europe, in the UK, and even on the Global economic position. Unsurprisingly the doom and gloom of a decade of uncertainty and austerity is being felt in many households across the country so it is no surprise that this is matched by a series of novelty markets by Paddy Power.