Conference League

The Conference League page collects the previews written for selected matches across the competition, each one built around a predicted scoreline, a headline tip and a run of further markets rather than a quick verdict.

The group and knockout picture for the competition, involving clubs from across Europe, moves round by round, so it lives on its own pages rather than in this text: the table for standings and the fixtures list for what's coming up. This page sits alongside those, gathering the match-by-match analysis rather than the raw schedule.

Each preview is prepared roughly a day before kick-off and updated if the team news changes before the game, covering both sides' likely fitness issues, a predicted line-up for each XI, where to watch and a full spread of betting markets including a bet builder. A match keeps the same page from that preview through to full time, when it switches over to show how the tips fared. Every preview carries a named writer, and the full list sits on the authors page.

Grading is fixed too: each tip is marked hit or miss against the odds printed at publication, stakes are treated as a flat amount per tip, and a miss is never quietly dropped from the record. A bet builder counts as one bet at the combined price of its legs. The running numbers behind all of that are kept on the tip record page, with the full process explained on the methodology page.