December 2008 - English Football League

Everything that's not the Premiership or Non-League. So, that's the other 72 football clubs in the Championship, League One and League Two...

Below the Premier League on the domestic football pyramid we have the Championship and Leagues 1 & 2. They are all discussed here on the English Football League hub. Also you'll find pieces on FA Cup Betting and the best Carling Cup Odds.

Ben Herd: Football is emotional but hitting a team-mate is inexcusable

In his final column of 2008, the Shrewsbury defender discusses festive five-a-sides, incidents of violence on and off the pitch and the return of the FA Cup......

Ben Herd

Dec 31 2008

League One Betting: Brighton up your Sunday afternoon by backing Melinda's Swindon

Betting.betfair.com's resident lothario Alan Dudman has an eye for the ladies but he also has a keen eye for good bets when it comes to League One football. Read on......

Alan Dudman

Dec 27 2008

League Two Betting: Watch the goals go in at Aldershot v Dagenham & Redbridge

Christmas is almost over but with the New Year just round the corner, it's as good a time as any to start making a few quid, starting with backing over 2.5 goals as Aldershot host...

Ian Lamont

Dec 27 2008

"All I want for Christmas is for my team-mates to receive some decent clothes", says Ben Herd.

Shrewsbury's right-back on playing squash and swimming to keep fit, refusing to give Christmas dinner a miss, Kelvin Langmead's bizarre choice of clothing and never taking racing tips from "Groundo" again....

Ben Herd

Dec 24 2008

League Two Betting: Back Chester to put a smile on your face

Ian Lamont is left with a tough choice for his Boxing Day football outing and may well end witnessing Chester's home tie against Accrington Stanley, where he's tipping up the home side to take all...

Ian Lamont

Dec 24 2008

League One Betting: Michelle Heaton and some other Boxing Day crackers on the pitch

Alan Dudman found himself a little bored recently and took watching poor reality TV to a whole new level. But thankfully he's back to doing what he does best - tipping League one matches. Here's...

Alan Dudman

Dec 24 2008

I hate watching from the bench, especially when you've got to put up with the physio's poor banter, says Ben Herd.

The Shrewsbury right-back is spending a spell on the sidelines at the moment but takes time out to talk about Paul Ince's dismissal, standing up on a chair and singing to his team-mates and getting...

Ben Herd

Dec 18 2008

League One Betting: The two faces of Janus are reminiscient of Colchester this season

Perennial "player" Alan Dudman was out and about on Friday night and bumped into a Samantha Janus lookalike. The "Game On" actress shares her name with the Roman god Janus who rather like Colchester United,...

Alan Dudman

Dec 18 2008

League Two Betting: It's worth betting on County to get tied up in Notts

Ian Lamont discusses Paul Ince's time spent in the lower leagues and asks whether he's a manager who can perform at this level but not in the top flight. Plus the best of this weekend's...

Ian Lamont

Dec 18 2008

League One Betting: MK Dons are the best in the division

Fresh from his New World adventures, supersized lothario Lord Dudman of Leytonshire is back to bring you the meatiest League One bets. And what of the Psycho Killer at Swindon?...

Alan Dudman

Dec 11 2008

League Two Betting: Shrewd move to lay Shrewsbury on the outright

Ian Lamont on why Shrewsbury are unlikely to be the League Two winners come May plus the best of the weekend's bets....

Ian Lamont

Dec 11 2008

Dressing room bust-ups occur because we care and want to achieve the same goals, says Ben Herd

Shrewsbury's affable right-back Ben Herd on testerone-filled dressing rooms, Nemanja Vidic and dressing up as the 118 118 characters with fellow betting.betfair.com columnist Gavin Mahon....

Ben Herd

Dec 10 2008

League One Betting Preview: Back Fergie Jnr's boys in battle of form horses

With Alan Dudman away in America - probably spending his winnings from the Histon Cup win he predicted last week - Andy Richmond steps in to bring you this weekend's best League One bets....

Andy Richmond

Dec 5 2008

League Two Betting Preview: Ill communication makes Grimsby value to unlock Valiants

Many people back a side in form - and poor form is as good as any other when you have the ability to capitalise on Betfair, says Ian Lamont....

Ian Lamont

Dec 4 2008

Ben Herd: No time for losers

The Shrewsbury right-back urges us to ignore the words of kindly teachers, offers some harsh truths about what it to takes to make it in the game and calls for a mid-winter break....

Ben Herd

Dec 3 2008