Stories By Ed Acteson

• Sport

  How weather caused one of the craziest football matches in history

  Storm Dennis is here and sporting events across the country are being cancelled. Once upon a time though, they went ahead regardless of the weather and, on one occasion, a football match played in heavy fog became one of the most shambolic sporting events in history.

• Sport

  5 things we learnt from the Premier League in week one

  It’s finally back! The Premier League triumphantly returned at the weekend as every top flight club played their opening fixture. Here are 5 things we learnt from the Premier League in week one.

• Insights

  What are Place pools?

  What are Place pools? Place pools are a form of betting in horse or greyhound racing where you win if your selection is ‘placed’ in each of the races listed in the pool. Being ‘placed’ means that your selection finishes a race in one of a number of pre-determined positions at front of the field in the final standings.

• Insights

  England stars take on winners of the #BetRegret Cup

  The #BetRegret Cup is part of the safer gambling campaign aimed at moderating the behaviour of young male bettors by encouraging them to think twice about betting when drunk, bored or chasing losses. Its final was a culmination of regional qualifying across 26 of Powerleague’s centres, following 170 teams entering across the UK.

• Conscious Colossus

  Alive & Kicking: The Story Of The Ball

  We asked Alive & Kicking how they make their beautiful and durable balls. They told us the following. “We obtain the majority of our materials from local sources. The only material that has to be imported is the ball bladder.

• Insights

  What is the Colossus FreePlay Reward Scheme?

  You asked, we listened! We ran a customer incentives survey a few months ago and a loyalty scheme was the most popular incentive suggestion that we were given. Well, at Colossus we value loyalty so we’ve created a brand new FreePlay Reward Scheme to reward our regular players! Every week your solo play and Syndicate contributions (excluding Captain contributions) will be rewarded with FreePlay reward tokens depending on how much you spend.

• Sport

  Colossus versus Chelsea Legend Pat Nevin

  We’ve signed a guest Syndicate Captain for the opening weekend of the Premier League season and it’s Chelsea legend and former Scotland winger Pat Nevin! He played for the Blues between 1983 and 1988, his pace and skill making him a key part of the Chelsea side who won promotion to the top flight, with Pat landing the club’s player of the year award twice.

• Sport

  Rating the probable Premier League top scorers

  Another season opens for business and, although we’ve already made our predictions on the finishing positions, we also decided to rate the chances of the probable Premier League top scorers for the 2019/20 campaign.

• Sport

  Ask The Captains: 2019/20 Predictions

  We’ve had our say on the new season but our Captains also know what they’re talking about when it comes to the beautiful game. As such, we decided to put five to the test by challenging them to predict what will happen in the 2019/20 season.

• Sport

  Five Premier League managers who might not last the season

  Premier League managers come and go. With the vast riches on offer in England’s top flight, multiple changes every season are inevitable. However, this year some big names could be heading for the exit door, whether voluntarily or not.

• Sport

  Premier League Predictions 2019/20

  After a long summer wait, the Premier League is almost back! Though there is inevitably still transfer business to be done, we’ve made our Premier League predictions for the 2019/20 season by forecasting the final league standings.

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