Welcome to our Football Betting Blog Posts. Here you will find all our football betting blog posts. These include latest odds on football matches, next club betting, next manager markets – anything football betting related that falls outside of our tips and predictions.

Best Football Betting Sites

The first thing you need to do is select a bookmaker to place your football bets with. Below we have a selection of bookmakers that we believe to be the best football betting sites available.

They all have a massive selection of markets to select from, both pre kick off, and in-play. They all also have a welcome bonus of some sort to get you started.

Football Betting Explained

Understanding football betting and how it works is especially important. There are so many different football bets to choose from, and it can be very daunting.

Luckily there are helpful websites like ours, and our sister site, football betting explained to help you along your way.

It is very important to learn about gambling on football. You need to be aware of what you are doing before you start parting with hard earned cash.

If you’re serious, you will have a plan

If you are serious about football betting, one very important thing I’ve learned along the way is to have a proper plan. By this, I don’t just mean a staking plan. I mean an actual long term plan of how you intend to bet.

If you just go into football betting with the view that you will have a bet when you feel like it and have a blase attitude towards betting, you will very likely lose. On the other hand, if you are intending on betting with pennies for a bit of fun, this attitude will be fine.

When I (allegedly) started to take my football betting more serious, I had no structure to it at all. Every Saturday I would just sit down at my PC and see what the day threw at me, and then wonder why more often than not I was down at the end of that day.

Soon I realised that I needed to find a way of betting or trading that I was comfortable with. I needed to have some structure to my gambling, to try and treat it more seriously. Also, I needed to do basic things like manage my betting bank better.

I also realised if I had any chance of achieving this, I needed to eliminate my weaknesses as best I could.

Eradicating Your Weaknesses Is Just As Important As Picking Winners

For example a few years back when ‘laying the draw’ was the main craze, I thought I would try it. I soon realised that I didn’t have the required discipline to trade out of a 0-0 on the 70 minute mark. So I ditched using that method and tried something else.

I didn’t know what would work for me, but it became obvious very quickly that this method didn’t work for me. This is an example of what I mean when I say I needed to eliminate my weaknesses.

I have since learned that there are more ways to make money from football betting than just thinking you have to put your cash on Team A to beat Team B.

There are various ways you can bet or trade. You can trade the Correct Score market, or the Overs/Unders markets. Another option is to make money from placing bets pre kick off (currently what I do).

Try Betting Systems As Well

There are also various trading systems you can follow, such as Assured Soccer Profits or Betfair Trading Expert, just to name a couple.

I do believe that sometimes I/we can over complicate football betting. It can be simplified into having an opinion that Team A will beat Team B. As long as you have a staking plan to follow – and follow that staking plan, then I believe money can be made from betting like this.

I’m not sure I have the discipline to do this, but I will be starting a trial of this soon. In this trial I will pick a team or a bet to win, once or twice a week. Then place the bet in line with my staking plan, and try it over a number of weeks. I will publish bets pre kick off, and obviously my subsequent results.

Try Trading Football Pre Kick Off

At the moment the pre match trading is going well for me, so I will be sticking to that and trying to hone my technique there. By this I mean adopting a list of do’s and don’ts to follow. Such as which markets to get involved with.

The best times to enter the trade, and when not to enter a trade, etc. A more finely tuned exit strategy from a trade that’s going wrong is something I also need to sort out.

I am far from the finished article and I believe I still have a lot to learn. But I do know that I have come a long way over the last 9-12 months. I no longer bottom out my account and I have a strategy and more trading ideas up my sleeve.

These days I am also a lot more patient than I used to be. I find working in percentages helps me (as opposed to money). This especially helps with pre kick off trading as I’m only looking to win around 0.5%-1% (currently about £1.40-£2.80).

In isolation £1.40-£2.80 seems a pittance to win. So I go with percentages instead, thinking long term with a view that 1% of £2000.00 is a lot more money. If I can win something like ten to fifteen 1%’s a week, I won’t go wrong in the long run.

I don’t believe that with time and patience, this can’t be achieved.

Football Betting Tips

When it comes to football, there is nothing better than making a few quid from a football bet. This is why we have a dedicated section on this website of free football betting tips and predictions.

Our specialist subjects are the popular Premier League matches, and over/under goals betting. And the best bit about these tips and predictions, is that they are 100% free.

Yes, you can pay for football betting tips, but here at football gambler, we like to keep our football betting tips and predictions free. And we fully intend to keep it this way.