Football Bet had a very good Euro 2008, picking the winners before the tournament! Despite people continually knocking them back because of poor performances in recent tournaments, they were worth backing with a clearly strong squad. There were profits in the final with a 1-0 winning goal margin and Spain win backed.
The only real losses came when some of the big names went crashing out to the likes of Russia and Turkey, Italy and France in particular saving the bookies some big payouts.
Looking forward the upcoming competitions, we have a few interesting pre-season friendlies, however these are not smart betting opportunities!
The Premier League is now just a month and a half away, and we will turn our attention to that. Manchester United will start the season as favourites at around 1.64 whilst Chelsea will be second favourites, currently at 2.2 on the exchanges.
The other two of the big four, Arsenal and Liverpool, are 5.2 and 7.8 respectively. Unless either of these teams make some major signings in the transfer window then surely they cannot expect to challenge the top two from last season.
We can always expect United to be in the hunt, but many will be tempted by Chelsea with their new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who already has a few new names to play with including Portugese duo Deco and Bosingwa. The 9/4 available at Betfred is our top Football Bet ahead of the season, however this may change before the start of the season!
Coming soon – top scorer football bets, Champions League football bets and much more…