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- The Origins and History of The Football Pools
- Littlewoods
- Rivals: Vernons and Zetters
- How to Play The Football Pools
- What Happens When Matches Were Postponed?
- Famous Football Pools Wins
- The Decline in Popularity of The Football Pools
- Can You Still Play The Football Pools in The UK?
- Football Pools in Other Countries
These days most people associate the origins of the Football Pools with Littlewoods, the Liverpool-based company founded by John Moores. It’s certainly true that Moores is the man who popularised it, but what not many people know is that the game itself was actually invented by a man named John Jervis Barnard. From Birmingham, Barnard realised that...
The name Littlewoods came about because the three friends who formed it worked for the Commercial Cable Company and outside employment of any kind was not allowed. That’s why they decided against calling the new venture after one of their own surnames, given the increased likelihood of them being found out if they did so. Instead, Askham told them ...
Littlewoods remained the foremost company when it came to the Football Pools, but such was the success of John Moores’s venture that other companies soon began to spring up as rivals, with most of them doing so in Liverpool. The first company to offer something different was Vernons, which was founded in 1925. It was another eight years before the ...
It’s more than likely that a good portion of the people reading this won’t know how the Football Pools was played. Despite the fact that it avoided coming under the jurisdiction of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act of 1963by claiming to be a game of skill rather than fortune, it was very much the latter. There were different games played over t...
In 1963 the winter was particularly bitter. It was so bad, in fact, that all matches were suspended for three weeks in a row. Rather than abandon the Pools, which would have seen companies lose money and resulted in disappointment for those that played the game, a set of adjudicators was convened. Known as The Pools Panel, it consisted of former fo...
There have been a number of well-known Pools wins over the years. 1950 is typically seen as a watershed moment for the game, when Mrs E Knowlson of Manchester became the first person to win £100,000. Just three years later and that total had doubled when Nellie McGrail from Stockport won more than £200,000. In 1961 a miner from Castleford by the na...
The National Lottery
When The National Lottery arrived in 1994 it signalled an end in the popularity of the Football Pools. Now people could win a fixed prize of millions of pounds by guessing six numbers, rather than relying on football players to do them a favour and score a particular number of goals in a given set of games. The chances might not have been all that much different in reality, but to most people the lottery seemed like a much easier option for winning a life-changing amount of money. There was a...
Online Betting
If the arrival of the National Lottery put one nail in the coffin of the Football Pools then the explosion of people betting online came close to smashing in another. Though it was only in its early stages in the middle of the 1990s, it became more and more popular as the millennium approached. Some bookies were quicker off the mark than others, but by the early 2000s the majority of companies had jumped on board with the new craze of placing bets online. Obviously they only tend to do someth...
Somewhat remarkably, neither the National Lottery nor the expansion of bookmakers into the online market actually dealt the Football Pools a fatal blow. Sportech Plc, a company that had made its name specialising in hard disk drives under the moniker of Rodime, decided to get into the online gambling business and paid £161 million for Littlewoods P...
As with so many things, including modern football itself, England might have invented the Pools but that doesn’t mean it’s exclusive to these shores. In Continental Europe the name of similar games is ‘Toto’, taken from the totalisator machines that are used to work out the mathematics of the parimutuel style bets involved. In the UK that’s where T...
In the United Kingdom, the football pools, often referred to as "the pools", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of association football matches taking place in the coming week. The pools are typically cheap to enter, and may encourage gamblers to enter several bets.
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Oct 9, 2018 · Not only did football and everything surrounding it – including having a flutter on the results – thrive in adversity, becoming increasingly popular, but it meant Littlewoods became an ...
It’s fair to say the Football Pools became a British institution. While their founders had constructed the business to alter their own social circumstances, they invertedly created a means through which other ordinary people could acquire some much-needed wealth.
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Jan 28, 2019 · Littlewoods was one of a number of Pools companies operating in Britain, and, during World War II, it joined forces with Zetters and fellow Liverpool firm Vernons to become the Unity Pools....
