Bookies favour Greek right but soccer may sway vote

ATHENS (Reuters) - Bookmakers see Greece's conservative New Democracy winning Sunday's election but political parties say the race is so close that even an international football match or the weather may help usher the radical left into power.

Greeks angry after two years of austerity and decades of corruption punished mainstream politicians in an inconclusive election on May 6 that catapulted the SYRIZA party to a surprise second place, turning the fringe leftists into serious contenders in Sunday's repeat vote.