Blogs: Football

Many would argue that goal difference (GD) is just a statistic andat the end of the day the position in the league table is all thatmatters. A lot of emphasis is put on the wins and losses of recentform but

What is now known in the West as Asian HandicapBetting was originally called Hang Chen betting has been popular inIndonesia for a long time but is said only to have gotten itsEnglish name as late as 1998. The story goes

As I write, a week of international football iscoming to an end, but not everyone is happy about the fact. To somethis was yet another week with no top level club football to enjoybecause of the “dreaded” international break. I

The Capital One Cup (The League Cup) is the lesser known of the 2major cup competitions in England, although it does offer a routeinto European Football for the winner it is not as popular as theFA Cup, even though the

When we see the match odds on our favourite team to win and think"that looks a good price", we shouldn't really leave it at that, weneed to delve that little bit further and see if by pickingdifferent bets we can

We are nearly there! The World Cup is just a dayaway as I write this and the time has come for me to unveil my ownInternational Football Rankings. Having looked at the FIFA rankingas well as the Elo version, I

In my last blog I made criticised the way FIFA calculate their international football rankings. In this blog i will experiment with the rankings to glean some winning World Cup bets based on the International football rankings.

If we want a ranking system to help us bet on the World Cup, then we should look at the ones available and decide. If they are good enough, then it would be a waste not to use them.

As club seasons draw to a close and the World Cup approaches, what a lot of people would love to know is who is going to win the competition. It would be nice for football punters if there was a ranking that could help.

In my last blog I showed that for the PremierLeague in the last five seasons, draws were often the outcome gamesof that was priced the longest. Furthermore that when only thoseodds for an outcome in a game were considered, when