Football fantasy lovers have something to smile about and make their betting easier. This follows the news that Goal.com has finally agreed a deal with the Fantasy iTeam (FiT) who are the founders and initiators of the Mirror’s Premiership fantasy football as well as the mobile application. The two firms have joined hands in attempt to come up with a fresh and individual fantasy offering for users known as the European Super League.

Since the initiation of football fantasy to digital world players have been limited to few leagues. Moreover the previous app working with fantasy football has been deemed difficult to work and play on. However, the new app provides its users with an exclusive variety of selections where one can choose his or her best combination from the five popular leagues across Europe. These football leagues are: English Premier League, Italian Seria A, Germany’s Bundesliga, the French Ligue 1 and Spanish La Liga.

As they say same mud, same blood, the Goal.com provides users with a free download just like it was the case with FiT Premier League app. The platform provides users with adequate time to pose challenges amongst their pals. This will be accompanied by amazing prizes that waits to be won with the highest going more than £15,000. Furthermore, the app will be accompanied by up to date updates which will be either live scores as well as squad news.

The Commercial Director at Fantasy iTeam Phil Shaw claimed that it was great pleasure to see his company indulge in yet another deal this time with Goal.com after they had a previous successful partnership with The Mirror. He added that he was very happy to be among the launchers of the new app.

He added that the new app of The European Super League is a fresh and an exclusive perception in fantasy football and they did their best to design it so that it can not only serve the UK based users but also the global populace. This is an achievement that will be meet having in mind that Goal.com has an attractive aspect of having millions of fans every month.

The CEO of New Ventures, Perform Group Ben Warn on the other hand claimed that he was pleased to join hand with the Fantasy iTeam and this will raise the old fashioned style that Goal.com used to operate on.

On 18^th May, 2015, police in Italy made arrests of dozens of lower league footballers and officials of the clubs after a probe into being suspects of betting on matches that were linked to a crime group known as Ndrangheta. Mafia network’s prosecutors of Calabria gave out arrest warrants for the arrests of 50 people from different parts of Italy. 30 more are under investigation in an inquiry labelled Dirty Soccer.

This investigation is focused on matches in this season and has involved clubs in Lega Pro and Serie D; which are the third and fourth tiers of Italian football. This emerges as the latest in a series of betting and other scandals that have been used to demean the reputation of football in Italy. The worst thing is that it involves Italy’s biggest clubs and footballers.

The investigators also brought to light evidence of attempts or actual match fixing which was related to betting in 1980 and 1986. These two incidences are known to have been the main reasons for Paolo Rossi’s ban for three years. This ban was later lowered to two years after an appeal where Rossi resumed playing and he played a major role in taking Italy to the World Cup in 1982.

Another major investigation was carried out in 2006 and it saw Juventus relegated after the investigation revealed the corruption of referees. There was also a new scandal that was performed which focused on betting on minor details in matches and not on the results. This was an investigation done in 2011.

Let’s wait and see what these new investigations on dirty soccer will lead to.

Proper football betting tips

To avoid such incidences in about dirty soccer, you could use safe and legal betting strategies to earn you good returns.

• Have a bet target prior to placing the bet to know how much you will be expecting back
• Learn that betting is not a get rich quick venture
• Set Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timed (SMART) bets
• Define your budget and do not go over what you have allocated to your betting
• Learn the different types of bets available in soccer betting and analyze the matches to bet on the one you find fit