Healy's Linfield look set to land back-to-back title

David Healy has had plenty to smile aboutCredit: Mark Runnacles

Bookmakers can hardly split Linfield and Crusaders at the top of the Northern Irish Premiership betting and it looks very much like a match again this season.

Cliftonville have been put in as third favourites but the very fact that both Linfield and Crusaders both went off odds-on at Solitude last season shows the gulf between the league’s top two and the rest of the sides in the division.

Linfield took the league by two points from Crusaders last year and although the 7-4 that was available last term is a thing of the past the Blues still look well worth backing to land back-to-back league titles.

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Henry HardwickeRacing Post Sport

Published on 1 August 2017inScottish football

Last updated 13:03, 4 September 2017

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