With our great success recently we have started to see some price pressures on our tips. A number of our members have asked whether this is due to an increase in membership to our service? My honest answer is - I don't know!

Some facts...

Yes our membership has increased since our Hall of Fame ranking in SBC but not significantly. I would also like to state the membership size has not reached the heights our sister site iBetValue enjoyed in early 2011 and they experienced little pressure on prices in very similar leagues.

For the number of tips that prices fall there are still prices raising in games. Hopefully our membership is betting at even stakes so why would this be the case? From this weekend Chicago v New England was quoted at 1.8 with Bet365 and pretty much stayed there for 12 hours while 1.9 was easily achievable with other bookmakers. However the Coritiba v Cruzerio game was a different matter, Bet365 was quoting 2.3 and our tip was posted at 2.1. This price continued to fall fast all the way to kick off where the best price was 1.87. Why??? I'm convinced this wasn't the result of our members placing bets but other tipsters or syndicates finding out the same teams news I had. There is no way this game would have been picked on form alone so was their other inside information available?

Some unanswered questions

1. Why did the Chicago game go up in price if our tips are driving prices down?
2. Are some of our new members betting mega bucks... I'm talking 2-3k per bet?
3. Why did the Coritiba game fall so fast?
4. Are the majority of prices returning to what I quote nearer kick off?
5. Who will win the English Premier League? ;o)

At this stage I certainly don't have all the answers and plan to monitor this with your help. I want to keep this an attractive service where you as members can at the very least get the prices I quote from Bet365.

I welcome your comments and help...

I was delighted to discover yesterday we had been upgraded to the Secret Betting Club's - Hall of Fame. Big deal you cry! Well yes for me it is because they have religiously tracked our results over the past 16 months along with hundreds of other tipsters and only a handful of services can claim achieving this.

If you have not heard of the Secret Betting club you should really check them out because they are like the Betting Police and god our industry needs it By providing a monthly e-magazine they flag the best and the worst systems out there helping you find the real gems and avoid the common scams. They provide great honest reviews (read ours here) but they are much more than this with an interactive website full of back catalogues, forums and advice. Great reading all round.

This is what the SBC had to say when promoting us to the Hall of Fame

"As the name suggests, Summer of Football, has been one of the few active tipsters over recent months and enjoyed a hugely rich vein of form in July, winning 24 of 32 active bets. This brought a whopping ROI of 35.96%. The past few months tipping helped break the 500 tip barrier for the service and we now have a wealth of experience as per their betting record, enough to make a more considered decision and improved rating. This is especially the case given the high strike-rate, low-odds approach they take as its very hard to fluke a strong record at these betting odds.

So with 16months of results, 500+ bets, a proven strategy and a low monthly cost we are happy to upgrade Summer of Football into our Hall of Fame, prior to the new season."

I am proud to be part of this exclusive group which is currently only made up of a handful of services from the racing and sports community. My goal now is to maintain this status and try to top some of their leader-boards. Always remembering... "Whatever it was that got you where you are today is not sufficient to keep you there"

I've been meaning to get a blog up and running on this site for some time but simply due to (lack of) time this has proved incredibly difficult  to get going. Fortunately I am now getting on top of many things, including fatherhood, my day job, walking the dog, playing competitive football, renovating a house, keeping up with friends and family, running this website and being a good husband! It doesn't sound that much when you write it down in a blog...LOL...who am I trying to kid?

But seriously, I absolutely love doing all these things and wouldn't change a thing apart from perhaps looking to move into a full time position in the betting industry. That also needs to be done without giving up the lifestyle my family has become accustomed to! (Music from mission impossible kicks in)

This blog will be all about that journey and ultimately how I plan to go about educating the world that gambling should be percieved in the same light as other investments such as buying shares, bonds and investments. I would like to see the day people can put their hard earned cash into a pension fund which is invested on their behalf on sports markets around the world. Obviously the liquidity has a long way to go on the likes of Betfair and other betting exchanges but I'm sure that day will come. The hard part will be changing government perception and legislation (there will be lots about this on the blog)

Anyway that's the serious part out of way now and don't worry I do also plan to have some fun. I hope to hear lots of your comments on any subject you feel relevant, share betting feel good and horror stories, help the odd charity out and start a free rolling accumulator. More to follow...