Eurovision at the bookies

While Israel’s Netta (pictured) remained favourite at the bookies to lift the Eurovision title in Lisbon on Saturday with her song ‘Toy’, France and Norway were closing the gap after early rehearsals. Meanwhile, bookmakers were quoting odds of up to 300-1 on victory for Ireland’s Ryan O’Shaughnessy. Here are the top ten favourites at betfair.com (in advance of Tuesday’s first semi-final):

Israel 2-1

Norway 6-1

France 13-2 Estonia 6-1 Bulgaria 11-1 Czech Republic 12-1 Cyprus 12-1 Sweden 20-1

Italy 22-1

Australia 33-1