Football betting is a tough game to crack and it's easy to find yourself overwhelmed with information overload!
The sheer number of potential sports, events, markets and wagers available to us online is staggering and it seems to grow year after year.
For example, an English Premier League game has more than 70 markets to pick from on the Betfair Sportsbook, each of which have multiple outcomes to wager on.
Many are put off altogether by the amount of information to take in, giving up on their betting adventure before it even begins.
Others, however, ignore it completely and place a bet without considering the likelihood of their punt actually producing a win. You know the type... they bet on their own team or whatever happens to be on TV at the time.
Bookies love these 'mug' punters as it's easy money for them.
Sure, some people do strike it lucky and win large sums of money, but if that was the norm, the bookmakers wouldn’t be in business. For every punter who wins big, there are far more losing their hard-earned cash.
Most beginners start out by searching "free football betting tips for this weekend" or something similar. It's not at all difficult to find plenty of tipsters on Twitter and Facebook, but you're unlikely to find any professional betting tips for free.
However, if you do follow a few competent Twitter betting tipsters you will get plenty of ideas for bets of your own.
Make Money with Matched Betting
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Absolutely everyone should do this!
Make as much money as you possibly can from it, then tell your friends and family too.
Getting Started with a Tipster Service
Lots of beginners decide to follow a betting tipster service and they're popular with experienced bettors too.
There are plenty of professional betters and traders who are willing to provide their help to those who need it and they are probably the best ones to follow. However, finding one who makes a long-term profit is harder than you'd think.
We're on a constant search for the most profitable football tipsters and carry out betting system reviews on our site. We check that the prices quoted are actually available at bookies or on an exchange, then we track the profit and loss.
After three months of trialling these services, we don't find too many who are consistently profitable and those who don't do well often disappear without notice. We do find some gems though and you can check them out for yourself.
Free Football Tips on Twitter
If you really can't afford to pay for membership to a matched betting site, you probably shouldn't be betting at all. It's the easiest money that you will ever make in your life!
But... if you do insist on looking for free betting tips, then a great place to start is Twitter. A simple search for 'betting tips' will provide you with hundreds of potential accounts, all of which provide their two cents on where you should be placing your bets.
Just before you get started, remember the old saying that 'nothing in life is free'. While you will receive plenty of free daily football tips on Twitter, the tipsters still have to make money somehow. After all, everyone has rent to pay.
Free tipsters often make their money by sending bookmaker affiliate links to their followers. If you sign up to a bookie, the affiliate will get a percentage of any money you lose. The more money you lose, the more affiliate commission they make.
See the problem?
I don't know whether this conflict of interest encourages any of the Twitter tipsters to send out crappy tips.
What I do know, however, is that I was contacted by an Affiliate Manager for one of the best-known bookies in the UK who suggested that I do exactly that; encourage people to sign up through an affiliate link and then send out losing tips.
Not cool.
Oh and for the record, I removed all bookie affiliate links from Goal Profits a number of years ago. I didn't make money from them anyway, since Goal Profits members are generally profitable and about as far from 'mug punters' as you can get.
10 Free Twitter Football Tipsters
@FootyAccums
Footy Accumulators is without a doubt the biggest free betting tips accounts on Twitter, with a following of more than 590,000 users, which boasts a strong community spirit.
You get the impression that those in charge of the account aren’t just in it to make a quick buck through affiliate links and sign-ups, as they spend a lot of time interacting with their followers. Likewise, the account regularly retweets punters with tough decisions to make to allow other followers to provide their own feedback.
As the name suggests, many of their tips are for accumulator bets, which isn’t necessarily the best way to bet, but they do offer up some valuable tips on single bets, odds and promotions too.
@Pinchbet
Pinch Bet don’t interact with their followers as some do, but they certainly make up for it in other areas.
Many free Twitter tipsters tend to limit their selections to the top leagues, which is understandable, considering that those events are likely to appeal to the most people.
However, Pinch Bet is the perfect Twitter profile to follow if you tend to bet on some of football’s lesser known leagues.
They claimed in 2017 to have grown their bankroll by 3,400% in just 18 months, which is certainly a big increase. However, they are one of few free services that update their followers on losses and they seem to do a good job of limiting them.
With daily profit updates, it’s easy to keep track of just how well their picks are paying out.
@WSTipster
This account provides a great alternative to other Twitter tipsters, as their tips are always backed up by statistical data.
It’s often difficult putting your bankroll’s safety in the hands of somebody else, particularly so when you’re unsure of where they get their information and how well researched it is. However, using WhoScored Tipster reduces some of this worry.
While there is little communication between the account administrator and its followers, as well as little mention of how well their punts perform, it’s always a good idea to consider past statistics before placing a bet, and this Twitter profile offers a solid place to start.
@tipstermetro
Tipster Metro has been set up by the Metro newspaper as a way to push traffic to their website. You should expect to see plenty of betting related articles on your feed throughout the day about various sports.
However, don’t forget - the Metro is one of the UK’s most popular tabloid newspapers and undoubtedly have the resources to ensure that their followers are receiving quality tips.
This account is one of the most well rounded free betting services on the Social Media channel, offering daily tips on everything from football to greyhound racing to darts.
@TwoPoundPunt
What started as an account for a part-time punter to share his exploits has quickly grown into one of the biggest free football tips accounts available of Twitter. While the Two Pound Punter doesn’t consider himself to be a professional, he currently has more than 34,000 fans following his suggestions.
Two Pound Punt tends to focus on low wager bets, aimed at people who are new to betting, with a particular focus on accumulator bets in order to turn small wagers into big wins.
Of course, accumulators can be risky business, but Two Pound Punt does record some decent wins. With tips offered on a number of sports, including football, horse racing and tennis, there is plenty of selection to choose from.
@FootySuperTips
With more than 415,000 followers, Footy Super Tips is one of the most followed tipster accounts on Twitter. They are also one of the most active accounts out there, updating their feed frequently with free tips, offers, updates and news.
With plenty of happy followers tweeting their thanks, Footy Super Tips seem to provide plenty of solid advice.
This account tends to offer accumulator tips, which can be risky if you don’t bet smart, but they often record decent results and are well worth checking now and then.
@Betting_Buddha
One of the most active tipsters on Twitter, Betting Buddha has plenty to offer, including straight bets and accumulators.
Better yet, this is also one of the few accounts to offer in-play tips, offering plenty of opportunities to sneak in some extra profit throughout the day. Likewise, they also recommend daily ‘Double Your Money’ slips, which have resulted in plenty of success.
It’s often difficult to weed out those that are offering their services for the wrong reasons, but Betting Buddha seems to genuinely enjoy the sport, encouraging plenty of debate and discussion between followers, which is always a perk.
@Free_FootieTips
With more than 47,000 followers, Free Footie Tips is growing in popularity. It's always nice to see interaction with followers, but what would make their followers very happy is winning tips.
I randomly checked in when writing this and saw a healthy amount of bets going the right way, so this appears to be a tipster worth following.
@TWEnclosure
The Winners Enclosure tend to focus on horseracing, but do throw out some football tips every now and then.
They don’t offer quite as much in terms of quantity, and you often have to dig through promotional tweets to find what you’re looking for, but going by the numerous happy punters tweeting their thanks for their winning selections, they certainly make up for the lack of quantity with plenty of quality.
With more than 190,000 followers, The Winners Enclosure are certainly doing something right.
@Bet_Share
This one offers a welcomed alternative to the other accounts on this list, as Bet Share is in fact a social media site, designed to match bettors with the very best tipsters and maximise their chances of making a profit.
The service aggregates some of the best tipsters on Twitter and ranks them by performance via their three separate platforms - one for horseracing, one for football and once for general betting.
While the service is useful, many of the best tips are posted directly to their Twitter account.
More Free Betting Tipsters
Those are just a few Twitter accounts that offer decent tips, but there are plenty more out there that could provide better results.
Many accounts use different betting methods, different markets, sports and events and it is really just a case of finding ones that work for you.
If Twitter isn’t your thing, there are plenty of other places to look for daily free football tips. Football is very much a game of opinions and you won't find any difficulty at all finding groups on Facebook, for example.
Of course, like always, you should still proceed with caution when wagering. It’s impossible to know who is behind these pages and it’s difficult to verify whether they have researched their tips thoroughly. Do not take a high number of page likes to mean that it is reputable, as this number can be exploited.
If you prefer to avoid social media, there are many other websites that you can turn to. A lot of the major bookmakers even offer up their own selection of free betting tips. Sky Bet, for example, offer a number of daily tips from Sky Sports' punditry staff.
Sky Bet's betting tips blog offers a number of free selections from pundits.
You won't get the same quality of information as you would from a professional bettor, as bookmakers are unlikely to encourage their customers to take advantage of mispriced odds, for example, but these blogs offer up some ideas for your own betting.
How to Profit from Football Trading
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