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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

    5 things we learned from the Premier League in week five

    It was an action-packed weekend of Premier League football that featured shocks, comebacks and 32 goals. With the season now well underway, narratives are beginning to form and a few managers are already under pressure.

  • Sport

    Premier League Tips: Giant-killing Wolves set to slay Chelsea

    Our resident football writer Ed Acteson has taken a look at the weekend’s top flight action and delivered his Premier League tips for the five 3pm matches on Saturday afternoon. If you agree with his selections then feel free to join his Syndicate.

  • Responsible Gambling

    FSA and Gambleaware team up to promote safer gambling in football

    A new survey carried out by the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) in conjunction with GambleAware’s safer gambling ‘Bet Regret’ campaign has found that football clubs have to do much more to educate their fans about the risks of gambling.

  • Insights

    What are Syndicate Captain Rebates?

    The sky’s the limit with our Syndicate Captain Rebate promotion, which rewards our Captains every week for filling Syndicates! Every Monday our Syndicate Captains will receive a cash rebate on the total value of the Syndicates they have placed during the previous week.

  • Sport

    If football clubs were musical artists…

    Have you ever wondered which bands or singers most closely resemble Premier League football clubs? Of course you haven’t, why would you? However, that hasn’t stopped us putting together a list of 12 of them.

  • Sport

    Weekend Football Stats: 13th – 16th August

    Another packed weekend of football action is fast approaching, with clubs in England, Spain, Germany and Italy all gearing up to do battle after the international break. We’ve put together a weekend football stat pack with every form table you will need to make it as easy as possible to tackle our 1X2, BTTS & total goal pools.

  • Sport

    Football buzzwords: from false nines to gegenpressing

    Modern football is constantly evolving and the finest managers in the game are always competing with one another to create the new tactical innovations which might give them an edge over their rivals.

  • Sport

    Premier League Preview – Week 3

    The Premier League action begins on Friday night this week and we’ve got a very tempting £10,000 1X2 – Pick 8 pool kicking off with the opening match, Aston Villa vs. Everton. Ed Acteson has cast his eye over five of the Premier League matches contained in the pool to try and find a way through.

  • Sport

    Player Cashes Out for £18k on ticket that goes on to be worth £690k

    One mystic player turned £50 into £18,877 in the £1,000,000 Pick 6 over the weekend but it could have been much, much more. The first three legs; Everton vs. Watford, Brighton vs. West Ham and Aston Villa vs.

  • Sport

    5 things we learned from the Premier League in week two

    The football season is just two weeks old but already there has been plenty of drama with plenty of players and teams getting off to a flying start, whereas others look in danger of sinking. Here are five things we learned from the Premier League in week two.

  • Sport

    Colossus versus sport broadcaster Bryn Law

    Having drawn 2-2 with Pat Nevin in the opening round of Premier League fixtures, this week Ed Acteson is taking on experienced sport broadcaster Bryn Law, who recently left his role as a touchline reporter for Sky Sports to become head commentator for Leeds United’s LUTV.

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