Recent Blogs Posts

The history of Premier League betting: All you need to know

Online football betting is the most significant form of sports betting in the world. When you have a fan base of over four billion people then why wouldn't you try to do business out of it? So if you see a lot of bookmakers in the market insisting that you bet on football, then you have to understand that it is a lucrative business. The Premier League The Premier League is one of the most famous football tournaments in the…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More
 

Manchester City big favourites to beat Chelsea at Wembley

Manchester City face Chelsea at Wembley on Sunday with the first piece of silverware of the season up for grabs in the Carabao Cup final. A 10-0 aggregate victory over Burton Albion saw City cruise into the final, while Chelsea needed penalties to see off Tottenham Hotspur. City are odds on favourites to beat Chelsea and there will be plenty of punters using the bet365 refer a friend scheme to back them to do just that. Pep Guardiola is sweating…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More
 

Manchester United fancied to derail Liverpool’s title challenge

Manchester United host Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday hoping to continue their resurgence under temporary manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The Red Devils are unbeaten in the league under Solskjaer and are likely to provide a massive test for Liverpool this weekend. United produced a superb performance at Stamford Bridge on Monday, progressing to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup courtesy of an impressive 2-0 victory. They are priced at around 2/1 to win Sunday’s game with bookmakers listed…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More
 

The top football Premier League statistics

The Premier League consists of 20 clubs looking to clinch the title, qualify for European competition or retain their place in England’s prestigious top tier. It is one of the most watched football competitions in the world. Total attendances rose from 9,762,339 in the augural season of 1992-93 to 14,544,093 last season.  Courtesy of staggering TV deals, over 600 million fans from roughly 200 countries watch games on a weekly basis. The Premier League boasts of some of the best…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More
 

Spurs couldn’t win the title, could they?

So much has been made of the head-to-head duel between Liverpool and Manchester City in the pursuit of the Premier League title that it’s often easy to forget that Spurs are only five points off top spot as well. When City were five points off Liverpool at the summit of the league the consensus was that it was very much game on. So why aren’t Spurs being taken as seriously? It’s probably because they refuse to go away rather than…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More
 

Will we still be in Europe come May?

Will we still be in Europe come May? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United fans. By 29 March 2019, the nation’s fate in Europe may still be up in the air, but we will know for sure if the four English clubs that are competing in the Round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League have all progressed in to the last eight ties that will be played in April.…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More
 

Rise of apps: changes in how we view football

Year on year we see technology creep into major sports, including tennis, golf, horse racing and boxing. Football certainly hasn’t escaped the rise of the machines with an ever-increasing number of decisions being put in the hands of computers. VAR was made famous during the 2018 World Cup in Russia and it proved such a hit with fans, players and referees there are talks to install the system in major football grounds across the UK, including English Premier League. An…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More
 

Russia 2018: over 3.5 billion viewers and €11 billion invested on the World Cup

No wonder Pelé referred to it as “The Beautiful Game.” A total of 3.572 billion watched the 2018 FIFA World Cup - that’s more than half of the global population, according to figures published by FIFA. Out of this total, 3.262 billion watched the competition at home, while 309.7 million enjoyed the World Cup through streaming, or in public places, such as bars and restaurants. It is estimated that the amount of money spent on placing bets at the top…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More
 

AFC Asian Cup – the last eight

From the humble beginnings of four teams in 1956, the AFC Asian Cup tournament has expanded from 16 nations in its last edition in 2015 to 24 for the first time in the current event taking in place in United Arab Emirates. Kyrgyzstan, Philippines and Yemen proved to be worthy debutants in the group stages but now it’s down to the nitty-gritty as the remaining teams have been decided for the quarter finals. So can Australia defend their crown or…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More
 

The rise of super human footballers

Modern-day football has changed rapidly since the start of this century, with developments in sports science making the game a very different place than was previously the case. There are four main strands to sports science - physiology, psychology, motor control/learning and biomechanics – with each playing an important part in enhancing player performance. First utilised by the former Eastern Bloc nations back in the 1950s, there was a big boom in the study of sports towards the end of…
Comments 0 Comments
Read More Read More