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Tips For Football

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:22:59 GMT

I have a number of football betting systems that I follow, but I also like to pick my own bets the old fashioned way. I had a free domain name that I bought for a rainy day so I’ve decided to turn it into a blog and start posting my selections there. The site is TipsForFootball.co.uk and I’ll be posting the selections I make, normally 5 – 10 a week depending on the fixtures. I’ll only be posting bets with odds of even or greater (>= 2.0), the reason for this is a strike rate of 50% will yield a profit at level stakes; not looking for big money here but I do hope to turn a profit.

Home advantage race advisor article

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:42:02 GMT

My second article for raceadvisor is now online. The article can be found here, this time it looks at home advantage in football, with both the tournament as a whole and individual teams. Some comparison is done on the current season (England) so far and last season.

Monthly football stats article for Race Advisor

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:12:13 GMT

I’m going to be writing an article once a month for raceadvisor. Sticking with the football statistics theme I’ll be writing about how to make best use of football stats when picking different types of bets. As this is also a bit of a promotional thing for soccer betting statistics the articles will focus on information that is readily available from the site. The first articles “Bettor Than Average” focuses on score-line averages ratios, specifically in relation to selecting bets on an over/under 2.5 goal score-lines. The article can be found here.

Get a simple PHP CMS

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:12:01 GMT

I’m not that into PHP, although I’ve worked with some of the better known content management systems like Joomla and XOOPS I tend to stick with ASP.NET, whether it be a community developed systems or something I have created myself to fulfil a specific requirement.

That said, I felt the need to mention GetSimple CMS. I was looking for a very light weight CMS for some affiliate marketing sites that I have planned, the first of which is BikeKids.co.uk. I wanted to just get things up and running quickly and avoid setting up databases if possible. My first thought was Orchard (which this site is running on) but lots of its features would exceed my needs. So, after a bit of hunting around and reading reviews I came across GetSimple, an open-source cms that uses an XML data store. It does exactly what it says on the tin: “GetSimple has everything your client needs, and nothing a CMS doesn't”.

I haven’t delved to deep into it yet, Im using the vanilla theme and haven’t made any tweaks, I just unzipped and published to my host (turnkeyinternet) and 10 minutes later I had a site up and running with some basic content in place.

So hats off to the people behind GetSimple - a small but perfectly formed CMS for allowing the quick and effortless website creation.