Facebook 80-to-one to sponsor Eye

Facebook has been named as an 80-to-one outside shot at becoming the next sponsor of the London Eye. The news that British Airways has decided to end its seven-year sponsorship deal has set the odds-makers at Paddy Power running wild. Google - as unlikely as Facebook, surely - is rated 33/1, while McDonald's manages 16/1. The real money is on O2 as joint favourite at 8/1 - although Monkey is not sure whether it needs another property after sponsoring the Dome - alongside London 2012. Virgin, Adidas and Vodafone are joint second at 10/1.