Football Spread betting offers an alternative to the fixed odds betting that the traditional bookmaker offers. With fixed odds you know how much you are going to win and lose when you place the bet. With the spread, the more right you are, the more you win.

This is an extremely difficult market to be up in the long run. The spread betting companies are professionals only rivalled by possibly the serious Asian Handicap bettor. You will really need to do your research if you are going to get ahead in this market in the long run.

You are to an extent betting against the other punters as with all bookmakers they set the odds to get as balanced book as possible. Betting against the market used to be a gold mine but nowadays with professional punters there are no easy systems for making money football spread betting.

If you do work out a system to beat the market, keep it to yourself. There used to be people that make good money selling booking points as the most people are buyers (they like to see more bookings). After this fact emerged the market corrected itself and it is no longer possible to make money by selling booking on every game.

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Here is a run down of some of the most popular football spread betting markets.

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