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How the Stadium Impacts The Overall Flow Of A Match
How the Stadium Impacts The Overall Flow Of A Match Stadiums have always been more than just a sports venue. Football stadiums play an important role in influencing the energy and experience of a football match. It mixes the emotion and passion of fans while also determining the pace of the match. The acoustics of a stadium carry the noise of the crowd around the field while the shape of the stands gives fans the perfect view of all the action, perfectly blending architecture and atmosphere to shape the flow of the game. Familiarity and Routine The home ground advantage is more than just a phrase. It is a psychological occurrence that gives the home team an edge and increases fan excitement. Playing at home gives players an advantage over their opponents. This advantage stems from the team...[Read More]
How Live Betting is Changing the Way We Watch the Game
Forget about the professional betting gurus in suits for a second. Back in the day, you would just yell at the TV during the match, scare the dog, and throw popcorn. But in 2026, those endless commercial breaks aren’t just for bathroom runs or finally finding where you left the remote – they are for the “Halftime Hustle.” We are talking about live betting. It’s heart-pounding sports betting world where a sudden instinct can turn into a payout before the third quarter even kicks off. Honestly, if you are still only locking in your bets before the coin toss, you are missing out on the most electric part of being a fan. Live betting is your most exciting opportunity to win, so let’s see more details about it! The Pre-Game Bet Falling: Why the Real Action Happens In-Play Pla...[Read More]
The UK Football Betting Checklist: What to Check Before You Place a Bet
The UK Football Betting Checklist: What to Check Before You Place a Bet Football betting in the UK looks simple at first glance. You pick a match, choose an outcome, place a bet, and wait for the final whistle. That ease is exactly why many bettors skip the checks that actually matter. Bookmakers understand how fans think. They know form tables, rivalries, and media hype push people toward emotional bets. The edge rarely comes from knowing more football. It comes from knowing when a bet is worth taking at all. This checklist is not about finding a guaranteed winner. It is about cutting out bad bets before they cost you money. Think of it like match preparation rather than match prediction. Check The Bookmaker Before You Check The Odds Before looking at prices, look at who is offering them....[Read More]
Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW17
Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW17 Welcome to Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW17. We are getting closer and closer to being able to reveal some results for you all. It does mean we are getting closer to Christmas and also means less and less time between gameweek deadlines. Make sure you don’t fall behind and get your predictions in on time. We will have articles out for each individual gameweek so make sure you put your predictions under the correct weeks article. THIS WEEK’S COMPETITION… scoring couldn’t be much simpler: • Correct Score —> 3 points; • Correct Result —> 1 point; and • Correct First Goalscorer of the Gameweek —> 5 points. To clarify, this is who you think will score the first goal of the entire Gameweek, not just in any given match that you ch...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW16
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW16 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW16 Just the four games on Saturday beginning with Chelsea v Everton and Liverpool v Brighton at 3pm. We then have Burnley and Fulham at 5.30pm before Arsenal host Wolves at 8pm. Five on Sunday with 2pm seeing most of the action, namely Crystal Palace v Man City, Forest v Spurs, Sunderland v Newcastle and West Ham v Aston Villa. Brentford v Leeds is the tea-time game at 4.30pm. That leaves Man Utd v Bournemouth on Monday at 8pm. The games in full… Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place. Good luck to absolutely everyone for Gameweek 16 f...[Read More]
FF247 Site Team News GW16
FF247 Site Team News GW16 5 FT’s to burn Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW16 Our Gameweek 15 Result Not the best week ever, it’s fair to say. Hardly the best season ever either. So at least we are being consistent! It was 47 points, 2 below the average, but we got away with a rank drop of just 170k. But hey, it’s a lot more congested in that 3m odd mark. Small mercies… We have 0.7m in the bank and 5 free transfers to use ahead of GW16. Let’s go see what was decided…. Our G16 Transfer(s) With the luxury of 5 FT’s afforded to us we have changed our plans on the chip strategy a bit. For the record that now looks like; Free Hit GW17, Wildcard GW18 and Bench Boost GW19. Maybe… As for this week we had Sels, Munoz and Mateta all injured so replacing those became th...[Read More]
Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW16
Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW16 Welcome to Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW16 We are getting closer to having results for you but don’t worry, we will have them all ready in time for Christmas. Hopefully a few nice surprises for you H&L managers! Until then, get your predictions in, sit back and enjoy the festive countdown! THIS WEEK’S COMPETITION… scoring couldn’t be much simpler: • Correct Score —> 3 points; • Correct Result —> 1 point; and • Correct First Goalscorer of the Gameweek —> 5 points. To clarify, this is who you think will score the first goal of the entire Gameweek, not just in any given match that you choose to pick yourself! Points above are awarded on an ‘either / or’ basis, so you’ll either score 3 points for a Correct Score or just 1...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW15
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW 15 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW 15 We go heavy on Saturday games again this week beginning with Villa v Arsenal at 12.30pm before all of this lot go at 3pm; Bournemouth v Chelsea, Everton v Forest, Man City v Sunderland, Newcastle v Burnley and Spurs v Brentford. Leeds and Liverpool do the later shift at 5.30pm. Just the two on Sunday then with Brighton v West Ham at 2pm and then Fulham v Palace at 4.30pm. That leaves the comedy of Wolves and Man Utd on Monday night. The games in full… Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place. Good luck to absolutely everyone for Gam...[Read More]
FF247 Site Team News GW15
FF247 Site Team News GW15 Much ado about nothing Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW15 Six of our eleven did absolutely nowt. Thankfully, the other five bothered to show up, and just about saved our dignity. We weren’t deranged enough to go against the robot, and those 28 points carried us. Elsewhere, Muñoz (14pts) — one of the few bright sparks in this season of darkness — did most of the heavy lifting. Saka (6pts) off the bench and Sels (6pts) both played their part, and while Liverpool continue to look bang average at best, Virgil hit DEFCON “Please clap.” Four points is about as good as it gets from him these days. We finished on 69pts — a sexy number for an aggressively unsexy team. A green arrow was secured, and we crawled from 3,704,055 to 3,511,047. It’s hardly been a vintage seaso...[Read More]
Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW15
Harry and Lloyd’s Fantasy Predictions GW15 Welcome to Harry and Lloyd’s Fantasy Predictions GW15 We hope to have some results for you next week, fear not, our little elves will have been working overtime counting up all those precious points. That said, I don’t think I have many so I hope you’ve all done much better! Until then, get your predictions in, and we’ll see you on the other side, yeah? THIS WEEK’S COMPETITION… scoring couldn’t be much simpler: • Correct Score —> 3 points; • Correct Result —> 1 point; and • Correct First Goalscorer of the Gameweek —> 5 points. To clarify, this is who you think will score the first goal of the entire Gameweek, not just in any given match that you choose to pick yourself! Points above are awarded on an ‘eith...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW14
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW14 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat GW14 Winter, midweek, games under the floodlights. Jumpers, goalposts etc… We have 3 on Tuesday as Bournemouth v Everton and Fulham v Man City kick us off at 7.30pm. Newcastle and Spurs go at 8.15pm. Then a whole raft of them on Wednesday with the 7.30pm ones being Arsenal v Brentford, Brighton v Villa, Burnley v Palace and Wolves v Forest , Leeds v Chelsea and Liverpool v Sunderland at 8.15pm. Man Utd v West Ham is the sole outlier on Thursday at 8pm. The games in full… Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place. Good luck to absolute...[Read More]
FF247 Site Team News GW14
FF247 Site Team News GW14 Robotic Malfunction Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW14 Gameweek 13 was a week of Free Hitter vs Triple Captainers. It was a massive win for the FHers so you can probably already guess which side we were on… if you remember last weeks article we decided to play the TC on Haaland. He failed miserably blanking and giving us a return of 6 points. The rest of our team didn’t do much better with 5 of our team getting 1s and 2s. Thankfuly we had Thiago who is keeping up his insane form with another 2 goals to score 13 pts. Mateta got a return as did Saka and Xhaka with scores of 6, 5 and 5 pts. We atleast scored above the average of 35 with our 49 points. It got us a green arrow up to 3.7 million. Our Gameweek 13 Result We have 2.0 in the bank and 1 free transfe...[Read More]
