Sporting Life has a rich history dating back to 1859. Up until 1998 it was a newspaper which focused mainly on horse racing and greyhounds.
Today punters will be more familiar with the online platform which is one of my most visited websites.
I’m following a selection of their tipsters right now. Ben Coley is amazing. Nuff said. I’ve had a really good start following the horse racing tips of Matt Brocklebank.
I’ve also added darts tipster Chris Hammer to my portfolio to see how he fares, too small a sample to comment (my polite way of saying not great).
I did start following a lot of their football tipsters as well. Jake Osgathorpe, Ninad Barbadikar, Michael Beardmore, Tom Carnduff, Mark O’Haire and James Cantrill. The problem I found is that the odds availability was a problem.
Plus these are guys paid to produce content on a regular basis so often they might be forced to tip when they can’t find value.
My sample was very small so I won’t judge those tipsters based on that but across 83 bets I lost 5.6pts (£56).
The main reason was the time commitment and the difficulty matching their prices to why I stopped following.
Sporting Life are not great at displaying tipsters statistics. Their results page will lists how their tips got on, but the last time I checked they didn’t have a breakdown of how each individual tipster had performed.
Sometimes they might highlight a ROI stat for the season, but I do question whether that’s only for the best performing tipsters.
Sporting Life is a brilliant site, probably the No.1 tipster platform online. But rather than jump in and back everything they post, my advice would be to hand pick a few tipsters like Coley & Brocklebank and just see how your fare across a larger sample.
