Guide to betting on Football

With the market in football betting increasing all the time, it won`t surprise many punters to learn that soccer has now overtaken horse racing as the most popular sport as far as gambling is concerned. Doubtless this is due in part to the internet explosion but it is also down to the creativity and innovation of bookmakers who have introduced a whole host of interesting bets to the point where you can now gamble on almost any aspect of a match.
But if you`re new to football betting, what options are there for the markets involved and the range of bets that are on offer?
The simplest form of bet involves predicting the outcome of a single match and whether your chosen team will win, lose or draw. This is the easiest type of bet to understand and while you may not make large sums of money from the shorter odds that are on offer, many professional gamblers choose this type of bet to keep their cash flow rolling.
You can make this bet even easier by taking out the draw as an option. This is called a `draw no bet` and therefore you just back a team to win and if the scores are level at the end of ninety minutes, your stake is refunded.
One of the newest bookmaker innovations involves betting in play where betting is available after a game has kicked off. This is an exciting form of gambling where you are almost taking the role of a TV pundit by judging how a game is progressing and predicting how it will end. You have to be quick to react as well because the prices are fluctuating all the time so if you see a set of odds that catches your eye, you need to place a bet before something happens in the game to make them reduce.
As with all sports, the online betting enthusiast is always looking for a system to help them engineer a guaranteed profit with their gambling activities. While it may not always be possible to identify a no lose system of this kind, there are many tips that you can pick up along the way.
A tried and trusted system for many professional gamblers is to identify three teams who are odds-on to win a match despite the fact that they are playing away from home. Quite often there are only three teams who fit the bill so it`s very simple to pick them out and once you`ve done so, you place a `trixie` bet on the three teams to win.
A trixie consists of seven bets - three singles, three doubles and a triple and if all three teams win, then you collect quite handsomely. Even if only two teams triumph, you are likely to cover your initial stake and that is another reason why this type of bet is so popular.
Nowadays, you can bet on almost every single aspect of a football match including first and last goal scorer, time of goal and how many yellow cards there may be. In each of the bets mentioned you can, with a little research and by following some footy tips, use your judgement to win some money while increasing your enjoyment of the match at the same time.