Wednesday 28th July 2010 | 16:26

As each season goes by non league football betting is getting bigger and more well known. The past four seasons in particular have provided a 'very nice' second income. The good news is that more and more bookmakers are pricing up non league matches. a few seasons ago they were hard to find.

The average 'mug' football punter bets mainly on the premiership or whatever match is on the television ...... but wait a minute, ask yourself how many people actually make long term profits by betting on premiership matches ? We are certain the percentage is very low.The reason for this is that within the Premiership for example there is so called 'mini leagues' top six/middle eight/bottom six teams. Take the following matches as examples Blackburn v Fulham, Everton v Aston Villa, Man Utd v Chelsea , Liverpool v Arsenal,Wigan v Wolves, Sunderland v Birmingham, Spurs v Man City. How many of these matches would you succesfully predict ? 50% maybe ? basically all matches could one of all three ways.Very difficult to make any worthwhile profits.

There are many advantages about focusing on lower leagues :

One major factor that is always overlooked is that the Staff at Non League Clubs are usually only part-time. This means that the distribution of vital information , such as players injuries etc is often not available immediately in the same way as Premiership Clubs is. There maybe a 24/48 hour delay , which for us is a fantastic time window to get the money down.

Take the example of Weymouth v Rushden , two seasons ago. We knew Weymouth because of financial problems etc would be forced to field their Under 18's Squad two days later . Rushden were priced at 15/8 to win , we knew this was a gift of magnitude and duly unloaded accordingly. 24 hours later the general public became aware and the price had collapsed into 2/5 ON ! Match result Rushden WON 9-0 @ 15/8 !!.

Last season this happened more than ever before Matches involving Marine v Durham last August .The visitors had a difficult week having to field a young team after losing their major sponsor, tellingly naming only two players included in the programme pen pictures and just three substitutes. Match result 7-2 home win at 11/10. This is just one of many examples we were able to be 'ahead' of the general public and more importantly the bookies.

Another Match which grabbed the general publics attention was the Chester v Eastbourne match, everybody was betting against Chester because of their well documented problems.Eastbourne had been backed from 3/1 into 4/6 for an away win !! Thus Chester drifted out to 11/4 based on this. But we knew Eastbourne would NOT win and were awful value. After speaking to two of their players , whilst they were on their way up north, our information was confirmed. Chester were winning the match easily before some of their fans invaded the pitch.The game was abandoned to our frustration. But never the less our information was 100% accurate.

We feel we know more than the bookies. The odds compilers sit behind a desk and laptops. We get out on the training field, In the treatment room, and in the dressing room. We have never seen a Bookie in any dressing room we have been in !

How can they 'know' more than people like us ? We have been doing this work for over 15 years. So our list of contacts is second to none. Infact we eat, sleep, breathe non league football and non league ground hopping.

Every Thursday you will be sent our selections for the weekend, plenty of time to grab the best prices. Midweek selections will be given late Monday or early Tuesday. We will usually give 4 saturday selections and only and 3 or 4 selections for midweek games.

Last season was an excellent one in terms of results and we aim to continue whilst the going is so much in our favour.

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