With the start of the new premiership football season around the corner, William Hill has made an announcement of a £50 million jackpot in the Prem Predictor. This would be on for grabs among their customers and would in a way draw new punters to this renowned bookmaker.

On the jackpot, players and customers of William Hill will be required to place a correct prediction on the positions for all the 20 Premier League clubs in the table and with win £50 million. There is a price of £2 that is charged per prediction and a maximum of 250 entries per individuals and the whole competition allowing a maximum of one million entries.

The UK bookmaker has plans to boost their marketing and reach many customers. Punters will be allowed to access the betting website and the Prem Predictor feature that would apply through the digital spectrum through TV verticals and mobile phones. With this they hope that this feature will be able to reach many of their customers at the comfort of their homes.

William Hill made an official statement on the release of this new feature and in it they said that with the new feature they were giving their customers a chance to win the £50 million. But in an addition to this a customer or customers who will have the most right prediction by that time of the season will stand a chance to walk away with hundred thousand euros. In the event that there will be more than one entry with the same number of predictions then the amount will be shared equally among them.

In addition, if at the end of season there are more than one successful predictions and their entry then the amount will have to be equally shared among the customers with the successful predictions. But if there is no successful prediction on the jackpot then there is no winner on the £50 million. However there is a consolation price that will be offered by William Hill on those who made the most successful entries. The amount of the consolation stands at £100000.

Mansion Group, an online gaming operator of casino.com has moved ahead to expand its company in the English Premier league, by entering a partnership with Crystal Palace FC. Mansion Group will replace Neteller, an igaming electronic payments specialist as the official sponsor of South London football club, Crystal Palace.

When Crystal palace announced its signing of Yohan Cabaye, a French international midfielder, Mansion Group also expressed its shirt sponsorship to the club.

As much as the terms of the deal has not yet been disclosed, it is confirmed that the Mansion Group branding will officially appear throughout the 2015-2016 season on the front of players’ jerseys.

The deal will be the second of the same kind for Mansion Group, after agreeing to become the official front-of-shirt sponsor of AFC Bournemouth. As such, in the coming season, Mansion Group branding will be present on the jerseys of the two premier leagues clubs.

The CEO of Mansion Group, SagiLahav said: “As a reputable business with greatest respect for English premier league, we are delightedwith this amazing partnership. In fact, we look forward to working with Crystal Palace on various projects that will boost both of our brands visibility, while providing a platform that will benefit the CPFC fans and Mansion casino from the partnership.

The following is a statement made by Steve Parish, the Chairman of Crystal palace club:

“We are excited to work together with Mansion, an entertainment heavyweight here at Crystal Palace. I look forward to working with them to grow both our brands.”

“With the Barclays Premier League around the corner, we anticipate for an exciting season ahead and we seek to truly establish ourselves and we are happy that Mansion is joining us in continuing to create a future and new reality for our Football club.” He added.

The English Premier League is the most watched football league around the world, with a broadcast of 4.7 billion people in over 200 countries. On the other hand, La Liga may have Real Madrid and Barcelona but fans find it predictable. In contrast, the premier league’s title can change often. This is evident by the championship victories in the past three years by Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea.

English Premier League is an intensely competitive league. This is what makes it even more engaging for its fans, who can even enhance their experience through betting on outcomes of various games. This is the main reason why the partnership of sports betting operators and football clubs is on the rise these days. The latest footballclub partnership is Aston Villa who has agreed to work with Betfair and Bet365.

New concept of co-exclusive betting rights

Aston Villa begun its partnerships with the two sports betting companies on 1 July,2015. This partnership will go on until the end of the Premier league season. However, the unusual bit about the partnership is that Aston Villa will be dividing responsibility between bet365 and betfair. This means that the two companies have co-exclusive rights for the club. This as a result, has changed the way the entire Premier league will do business in future.

Aston villa officially announced that bet365 and betfair have the right to be associated with them and both companies will appear on the Club’s interview backdrops and LED screens.

Aston Villa has a history of joining forces with betting operators. It previously partnered with Dafabet and William Hill. Dafabet was its official betting partner for the last two seasons.

Charlie Wijeratna, who is the chief commercial officer of Aston Villa, said that the co-partnership deal from Betfair and bet365 will have a significant commercial increase compared to last year’s partnership.

AFL Club Essendoncalls time on betting partnerships

While English football clubs are welcoming betting partnerships, An Australian team called Essendon does not share that spirit.

Xavier Campbell, the chief executive of Essendon acknowledges that gambling partnerships are highly lucrative. However, the team believes that sports betting have negative impression in Australia. In addition to that, he said that the decision of not partnering with sports betting would cause “short-term financial pain” to the club regardless of the club posting its revenue record for most of its financial year.

This will be the second time that Didier Drogba leaves Chelsea but he hopes coming back on a different capacity. His game with Chelsea against Sunderland is his last with the team. He will not be retiring from football but he will be leaving Stamford Bridge in pursuit of his playing career.

He resumed to Chelsea last summer on a year’s deal and during his term, he has assisted in getting the club a 4^th Premier League title. Drogba believes that he needs to play for another more season but this would feel good for him if he played on a different team.

The 37-year old striker said that he has had dialogue with his manager and the board where they agreed to let him leave since it was up to him to enjoy the pitch more as he wishes. He is happy to know that the club wants him back and be part of the future team in Chelsea and he is pleased of the way they came up with the solution.

Previously, Drogba was in West London where he spent eight years from 2004 to 2012. He won 12 trophies and made one of the best scores against Bayern Munich in The Champions league of 2012.

Before he came back for the second time to Chelsea, he was playing in Turkey and China.

In a statement, Chelsea said that they are happy of Drogba’s participation and that they would always be pleased to have him back in Stamford Bridge.

Drogba first played for Chelsea in 2004 where he scored 157 goals in 341 appearances, prior to leaving in the dawn of the club’s Champions League victory. He collected 3 Premier League titles, 4 FA cups and 2 league cups in his first stint in London.

Drogba has played in 39 matched across all kinds of competitions in this term and has scored 7 times and helped his fellow team players in securing a Premier League and League Cup double.

CEO to Chelsea said that Drogba was a legend in Chelsea and that he will always be a part of the family. Ron Gourlay says that he will be leaving to higher grounds and that his big contribution to Chelsea’s success is huge and contributed a lot to the team’s success.