Welcome to SPG - the Spa Publishing Group...

The new home of the sports betting advisory services: Against the Crowd, Across the Leagues, and Ones to Watch - formerly published by Oxfordshire Press.

Across The leagues

Across the Leagues provides unique football betting stats, analysis and advice on the Premier League, Scottish Premiership, English Championship, League One, League Two, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and many more…

We use team and player statistics to identify the standout bets across the leagues. Focusing on markets like Corners, Goals, Cards & Bookings. Bets that often prove far more reliable and profitable that the more common Home Win…

Our members-only emails highlight standout bets every weekend. And our website tells you which bets pay out most often in over 30 different betting markets for 18 leagues, hundreds of teams, and thousands of players…

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Ones to Watch

Cash-in on the tennis all year round with Oliver Upstone’s Ones to Watch service…

Exclusive weekly bets & advice on Men’s ATP and Women’s WTA tournaments and matches.

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Against the Crowd….​

Against the Crowd is a betting service that specializes in finding winners at BIG prices in the toughest races on the British horse racing programme….

Across the Leagues & Ones to Watch…

Formerly published by Oxfordshire Press Ltd

Across the Leagues

Across the Leagues is a football betting service with a difference: no short-price home wins or bookie ‘shop window’ bets here… Featuring weekly member emails, in-depth analysis, and a website packed with bet-specific stats for 18 leagues. You’ll discover smart betting angles, little-known stats, and big-odds betting opportunities. All season, every season - and for the European Championships and World Cups, too...

Ones to Watch

Ones to Watch is a unique members-only ‘tennis club’ - a betting service focusing exclusively on tournament Outright Winner markets. Backing appealing outsiders at attractive Each Way prices. Taking on the favourites, and targeting huge prices. Featuring selections at eye-catching odds on the weekly ATP and WTA Tours, as well as in the four annual Grand Slams: the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. With 33/1, 50/1, and even 100/1 winners landed for followers - from Wimbledon 2013 to the present day…

Both services are written by our long-standing sports analyst, Oliver Upstone, who has been a core member of our team since 2005. Oliver is a stats man… an underdog backer… a bettor with an eye for spotting a talented young tennis player on the up, or a tucked-away football market with a potential for a big-odds payout. He’s also an avid sports fan and self-confessed numbers nerd - often to be found online at midnight watching live tennis from overseas, or checking on corners and yellow cards in football matches up and down the land…

Over the years, Oliver has spent thousands of hours poring over form, stats, and betting markets. Providing in-depth match and tournament previews, analysis and bet advice, delivering consistent returns for his followers. His aim has always been to alert ordinary bettors to the fact that there is so much more to betting than backing the favourites to win - and to arm readers with the info they need to become smarter, more profitable bettors…

Follow Oliver’s Across the Leagues and Ones to Watch services, and you’ll be drawing on knowledge, experience, betting intuition and insight, honed over 19 years and counting in the industry. And many of our members have followed him every step of the way…

Against the Crowd….

Against the Crowd is a betting service that specializes in finding winners at BIG prices in the toughest races on the British horse racing programme….

…. the valuable big-field handicaps run on the flat and over the jumps….

The emphasis is on digging out well-treated horses at the weights that the wider market is underestimating, overlooking, or ignoring at the prices….

…. in all the big handicaps run at the top tracks every weekend and at all the big midweek Festivals throughout the year….

…. always with the objective of banking a few quid out of the game….

And it’s not just about winning tips….

Against the Crowd goes out via email up to five times a week….

…. and as well as big-race selections at tasty prices you can expect a constant flow of angles, pointers, clues, original research & analysis, hard-won intelligence, unique data, and very authentic opinion….

The whole Against the Crowd package is designed to help you develop an informed opinion – something that represents a real edge in race-betting markets….

…. and to equip you with insights and methods that will help you dig out plenty of winners – and bank big betting profits – under your own steam….

Against the Crowd – first published in 2007 – is written by long-time analyst and contrarian punter Nick Pullen….

Nick eschews the spotlight, works alone, and keeps himself to himself….

You won’t see him on TV or in the pages of the mainstream racing press….

You won’t find him shouting and bawling on Twitter or doing interviews on podcasts and YouTube channels….

Nick’s all about the business – and the bottom line….

…. he’s just about the best-kept secret in the racing game – and has been for a number of years now….

…. something his exclusive band of loyal readers (many with 10+ years in the fold) very much appreciate….