With the big kick off less than a week away, football fans the world over are eagerly anticipating the start of the Premier League season.
Can City retain their title? Who will get relegated? Will Costa be the new Drogba or the new Shevchenko?
But the question I want answering is can we really clean up the image of football once and for all this time, and how do we do it? Continue reading “How do we clean up our game?”
We often hear that the Premier League is the best in the world. If that was true, it would have the best players playing here during the best years of their careers. Is that actually the case?
In this series we will see if the best players from each country have chosen to join the Premier League during the peak years of their career. First, here is the best possible eleven from Holland that have played in England since the Premier League was formed in 1992. Continue reading “Going Dutch – does the Premier League have the best?”
Jose Mourinho has won league titles in four different countries and has won the Champions League with two different clubs. In order to consistently build such successful teams, he has had to stay one step ahead in the transfer market.
Here we look at the top five signings of Mourinho’s career so far: Continue reading “Jose Mourinho’s top five signings”
This season we are continuing the Tipster Wars to find out who’s the best in the country. Battlersandbottlers writers, Mike and Dave Kehoe are pitting themselves against the biggest names in football media again. The rules are simple: Three points for a correct score, one point for a correct result, if any Tipsters fail to make their predictions any given week, then their score will be equal with that of the lowest scoring Tipster that week.
Mike came a respectable 2nd last time out but Dave has some work to do and some pride to restore after finishing 2nd bottom. By the end of the season you will know whose tips to follow to make the biggest profit on your bets.
The reigning Tipster champion and the man they all want to beat, football’s favourite grumpy uncle, Match of the Day’s Mark Lawrenson.
Looking to go one better than last season and take the crown, one of the biggest names in football blogging, it’s Battlersandbottlers’ very own Mike Kehoe.
A solid mid table finish last term, its Sky Sports Soccer Saturday mainstay, Arsenal legend and confused cockney Paul Merson.
Survived relegation by the skin of his teeth last time, and he calls himself a football blogger. “The only thing worse than being beaten by my brother was also being beaten by Merse”, to double our chances of victory Battlersandbottlers’ Dave Kehoe.
A new contender for the crown? He was a great player, is he a great tipster? Talksport presenter and Forest legend Stan Collymore. Welcome to Tipster Wars.
The latest contender in the Tipster Wars. No one knows more about getting a side promoted to the Premier League, and then getting sacked to watch all your good work undone by another manager. He has an astonishing seven promotions in his career as a boss, its Talksport’s guest presenter Neil Warnock.
Most of us like a flutter on the football on a Saturday. Sitting in the pub watching Jeff Stelling going mad just wouldn’t be the same if you didn’t have your accumulator to keep a check on. Let’s be honest you only support one team so why do you care about the other results if you haven’t got a few quid on them?
We all know how hard it is to pick a winner and beat the bookies, so when you do, you want to make sure your getting paid out as much as you possibly can. After all you may be waiting for a long time between winners.
So we are going to find which bookies had offered the best price on the winning selections. This season we are looking at which of the five major UK bookies; William Hill, Paddy Power, Coral, Ladbrokes and Betfred.
Who pays out the biggest amount for winning bets on Premier League games? We will tell you.
So if you are lucky enough to get your acca up, you can make sure you are getting paid out the highest amount there was on offer.
Good luck to all punters out there!