October 2008 - Football Food For Thought

Football Food For Thought. Opinions and thoughts from the betting.betfair team from the Premier League to the Champions League to the World Cup. This is where opinions come to live and whatever your football PoV it is sure to disagree with someone here!

Premiership Betting: More truth in the notion of substitutes "affecting the game" than in previous football buzzwords

Ralph Ellis tells us why now more than ever the strenth of your squad is what determines your finishing league position and looks at players who came off the bench this weekend to "affect the...

Ralph Ellis

Oct 27 2008

Lawrie McMenemy's bizarre popularity on Tyneside and why the North East derby is more than a matter of life or death

Frank Gregan is a man who needs little or no excuse to have a dig at Sunderland and here he tells us why a certain Lawrie McMenemy is so popular in Newcastle and how Joe...

Frank Gregan

Oct 23 2008

Managerial stability and taking time to make the Gradi

Dan "The Betting Man" Fitch on why if instability and constant change is bad news in the corporate world, things should be any different in the footballing world....

Dan Fitch

Oct 21 2008

Crouch/Defoe and Quinn/Phillips - true exponents of the little and large partnership

"Mystical" Mike Norman on how the big man and small man partnership is about so much more than route one football these days and tells us why Crouch and Defoe can form a striking combination...

Mike Norman

Oct 20 2008

Keeping going for the love of the game

One-time greats Darren Anderton, David Beckham and Rivaldo don't play in the company that they used to or see as much of the limelight as they used to you so why do they keep on...

Tareq Quiroz

Oct 17 2008

Premier League: The credit crunch begins to take a bite out of football

Dan "The Betting Man" Fitch discusses the effects that financial insecurity has had on several Premier League clubs and what the long-term effects will be....

Dan Fitch

Oct 14 2008

Premier League: The credit crunch begins to take a bite out of football

Dan "The Betting Man" Fitch discusses the effects that financial insecurity has had on several Premier League clubs and what the long-term effects will be....

Dan Fitch

Oct 14 2008

International retirement as the ultimate example of putting club before country

Tareq Quiroz discusses the case studies of Jamie Carragher and Francesco Totti as players who called their time on their international career long before they've called time on their football careers....

Tareq Quiroz

Oct 10 2008

Next Newcastle Manager Betting: Plenty to learn from old school Kinnear

He's not a sexy name or character and he turned the air blue within days of arriving at Newcastle but Joe Kinnear's top flight record is good and former players speak wonders of him, so...

Dave Farrar

Oct 8 2008

Premiership Betting; The Big Four are likely to be the top four again this year

Just when we all thought Aston Villa could mount a serious challenge to the Big Four and that the exertions of midweek Champions League football could take their toll, Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea and to...

Ralph Ellis

Oct 6 2008

Who are the "Big Clubs" in England and who just think they are?

Sick of listening to football fans from all around the country talk about how they support "big clubs", TQ looks to define what being a big club is and which English clubs can rightfully claim...

Tareq Quiroz

Oct 3 2008

Tommy Mooney: On me head, son.

Tommy Mooney continues his Spanish adventure, protecting his head from the sun and watching from the touchline as Mooney Jr takes his first steps in the game....

Tommy Mooney

Oct 2 2008