William Hill have announced that they are opening the Eurovision Song Contest book with Sweden as their favourites with odds of 4/1. Russia are second favourites at 9/1 and third are Greece, Ukraine and Belarus at 12/1. The British betting company have the United Kingdom at 16/1, in from 20/1 before the Scooch victory on Saturday night.

Those who think Scooch will fail to score a point have extended odds of 26/1, with the bookmaker deciding that there is less chance of a second 'nil points' with Scooch as the entry.

Sweden 4/1
Russia 9/1
Ukraine 12/1
Greece 12/1
Belarus 12/1
Serbia 14/1
Romania 14/1
Cyprus 14/1
United Kingdom 16/1
Switzerland 16/1
Israel 16/1
Bulgaria 16/1
Ireland 20/1
Finland 20/1
Germany 25/1
Spain 33/1
Estonia 33/1
Denmark 33/1
Andorra 33/1
Moldova 40/1
Malta 40/1
Georgia 40/1
Turkey 50/1
Slovenia 50/1
Norway 50/1
Latvia 50/1
Hungary 50/1
France 50/1
Montenegro 66/1
Iceland 66/1
F Y R Macedonia 66/1
Czech Republic 66/1
Croatia 66/1
Bosnia – Herzegovina 66/1
Belgium 66/1
Austria 66/1
Poland 80/1
Portugal 100/1
Netherlands 100/1
Lithuania 100/1
Armenia 100/1
Albania 100/1


Thanks to Johnny Logan and Hold me now I fell in love with the Eurovision Song Contest, a love that's been going strong ever since with undiminished passion. My first memories date back to 1977 and the lyrics of Rock bottom, Dschinghis Khan and A ba ni bi are still engraved in my brain. I joined esctoday.com in 2006 as a junior editor after being invited by Barry Viniker, I soon became Senior Editor and during the 2007 contest in Helsinki I was appointed Head of Communications. Today I hold the post of Head of Human Resources and I am proud to be working with the best editorial team in the world.