There is a version of this page that would rank Football Prediction out of ten. This is not that page. Nobody outside a service can grade it honestly, and inventing a score would be worse than saying nothing.
A note on expectations
Football is a low-scoring sport with a great deal of noise in it. A sound process still loses regularly, and a careless one wins often enough to look clever for a fortnight.
That is why a record matters more than a preview, and why the length of the record matters more than its best week.
A price is half the bet. Backing a 1.40 favourite and a 3.20 outsider are different propositions, and a record that ignores the odds cannot be assessed.
Ten winners at short prices can lose money over a season. Four at longer ones can make it. Without prices, a percentage is decoration.
Accumulators and the arithmetic
A four-fold of 70% selections lands roughly a quarter of the time. That is not a criticism of multiples, but it is worth knowing before you build one out of "bankers".
Each leg multiplies the bookmaker's margin as well as the odds. Doubles and trebles keep the maths readable; eight-folds hide it.
Ask who pays for the page. Affiliate links, subscriptions and advertising all shape what gets published, and none of it is dishonest on its own.
It does mean the incentives are worth knowing before you treat a selection as neutral analysis.
How to compare two services
Pick a fixed period. Pull both records. Apply one staking rule — a flat unit is the usual fair test — and check whether the quoted prices were realistically available.
Then compare the totals, and look at the spread. A profit scraped from two long odds is a different proposition from small margins ground out over months.
The thing to check on any tips page is settlement. Not whether a pick won, but whether the site went back and marked it won or lost once the match finished.
Without that, a long list of confident predictions tells you almost nothing about whether following it would have made money.
Staking decides more than selection
Most people who lose money betting do not lose it because they picked badly. They lose it because they staked inconsistently — small on the winners they doubted, large on the ones they felt sure about.
Pick a unit before you look at the card. Keep it level. A method that cannot survive being staked evenly is not a method.
Be careful with language that cannot be falsified. "Value", "strong fancy", "should have too much" — none of these can be settled, which is precisely why they are used.
A tip you can grade names a market and a side. Everything else is description.
Today's list
The current selections, with markets and confidence ratings, are on the today's predictions page. Settled results, including the losing days, are at the settled record.