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Ed Acteson

Ed is the Colossus Blog Editor and a former sports trader who hails from Canterbury in Kent. With a background in trading, he cut his writing teeth contributing tipping articles to a variety of gambling blogs and websites before eventually realising a long held ambition of writing professionally when he joined Colossus in early 2019.

A father of two, Ed is a keen golfer and long suffering Crystal Palace fan who tries his best to remain mutual when writing about Palace and Brighton.

Stories By Ed Acteson

  • Sport

    Are long term football managers a thing of the past?

    “The club has to go in a new way where it is not on short spells, I think now they have to go into a new era of Chelsea where managers have more than one or two years.” As Guus Hiddink embarked on his second temporary stint in charge of Chelsea at the tail end of 2015, following the termination of Jose Mourinho’s own second spell at the club, he offered a thinly veiled criticism of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s hire and fire policy.

  • Sport

    Premier League tips: Villans may nick a point from Liverpool

    Our resident football writer Ed Acteson returns to tackle the all Premier League £5,000 Pick 5 on Saturday afternoon. He’s previewed three of five matches in the pool and reckons that there could be shocks on the cards.

  • Sport

    Weekend Football Stats: 1st – 4th November

    Need some help tackling our 1X2, Both Teams To Score, Total Goals or Asian Handicap pools this weekend? We’ve got you covered in our weekend stat pack. All the football stats you could possibly need for the Premier League, Championship, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue Un are laid out below for your convenience.

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    Liverpool vs. Arsenal: Best Twitter reactions

    Following their capitulation to Crystal Palace at the weekend in which the club captain, Granit Xhaka, swore at the home fans, it’s fair to say that Arsenal are a club in crisis. They had a chance to make amends against Liverpool in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday but, despite leading 3-1, 4-2 and 5-4, The Gunners snatched defeat from the jaws of victory yet again, eventually drawing 5-5 before losing on penalties.

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    Five Premier League players who have surprised us all

    With the season already a quarter of the way through, we decided to take a look at five Premier League players who have surprised us all with their performances so far.   Tammy Abraham Frank Lampard: “I won’t get carried away with anything about this performance.

  • Winners

    Player sensationally converts £1 NBA ticket into £12,500

    Imagine going to bed one night before waking up £12,500 richer the following morning. That’s what happened to one lucky player this week who made light work of the £25,000 NBA Pick 5 Point Margin pool.

  • Winners

    Psychic player wins incredible six-figure sum from Pick 15

    An incredible story unfolded in the Pick 15 over the weekend as a Colossus player landed one of our biggest ever wins. With a chunky 192 line ticket costing £384, the player was clearly in a bullish mood as he entered the pool and, as the opening legs got underway, his confidence proved justified.

  • Sport

    Premier League tips: Spirited Burnley could nick a point from Leicester

    With the Premier League returning this weekend, Ed Acteson has written this preview of five of the Premier League matches this Saturday, with a view to taking on the £800,000 Pick 15 and £5,000 Pick 5 pools.

  • Sport

    Weekend Football Stats: 18th – 21st October

    Need some help tackling our 1X2, Both Teams To Score, Total Goals or Asian Handicap pools this weekend? We’ve got you covered in our weekend stat pack. All the football stats you could possibly need for the Premier League, Championship, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue Un are laid out below for your convenience.

  • Sport

    Coleen Rooney vs. Rebekah Vardy – Best Twitter Reactions

    Twitter erupted this morning when Coleen Rooney sensationally accused a fellow footballer’s wife of leaking her private Instagram stories to the press.   This has been a burden in my life for a few years now and finally I have got to the bottom of it…… pic.

  • Sport

    Weekend Football Tips: Toffee’s boss Silva could be set for a sticky ending

    He got 5/5 last weekend and 4/5 in his midweek preview, so Ed Acteson is a man in form. He’s cast his eye over six of this weekend’s Premier League encounters and delivered us his best weekend football tips with a view to tackling the £1,000,000 Correct Score – Pick 6 and the £800,000 1X2 Pick 15.

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