Moscow here we come!!!!!!!!!!

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Well thats it the National Final season for 2009 is now officially over and the countdown to Moscow has now started.

The favourite with the bookies seems to be Norway with Greece and Turkey not too far behind. The United Kingdom are commanding 7th favourites at the moment whilst the 3 previous winning nations Russia, Serbia and Finland are not particularly well thought of with Russia being the best bet at 9th favourites.

Its quite funny looking at the bets when you see that for the first time in years Russia are not the favourites of the former Soviet states....... that one goes to Azerbaijan this year and in my opinion deservedly so. The other suprise in the betting is to see that Montenegro who are in for the 3rd time is the favourite from the former Yugoslav Republics when they have over the past 2 years been the odds on favourites from that region not to get to the final...............will we see Montenegro in the final on May 16th??? I still am not sure on that one!!!!

I still think that Spain, Estonia and France are the ones to watch this year and believe all 3 songs are strong enough to win.

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