Meet the Team

Here at BestBettingSites.co.uk, all our reviews have you in mind: we love a bargain nearly as much as we love a winning 66-1 shot at Kempton! We also love sharing our experiences to make your life easier, we’ve gone through the pain so you don’t have to! We know you will love our recommended betting sites and our truthful, unbiased reviews will give you all the FACTS so you can make an informed choice. So enough words, time for you to meet our crew.


Our Authors

Leon Marshall – Editor-in-Chief

Leon Marshall, Editor-in-ChiefLeon Marshall – is the Editor-in-Chief at BestBettingSites.co.uk. He writes about most betting topics, and also loves to interview ageing sports stars!

Leon’s Area of Expertise:

  • Football
  • Online Gambling
  • Interviews

John Kettle – Betting Expert

John Kettle is our betting expertJohn Kettle – brings decades of industry expertise to BestBettingSites.co.uk. He is passionate about betting, football, and most other sports.

John’s Area of Expertise:

  • Betting
  • Esports
  • Tennis

Alan Smith – Contributor

Alan Smith is our betting contributorAlan Smith – shares his football betting predictions every week here at BestBettingSites.co.uk. He loves talking about the beautiful game – whether on TV for Sky Sports or via his regular blog posts on our site.

Alan’s Area of Expertise:

  • Football
  • Analysis
  • Predictions

Our Values

Unbiased, Trustworthy, Honest.

“A good mission statement captures an organisation’s unique and enduring reason for being, and energises stakeholders to pursue common goals. It also enables a focused allocation of organisational resources because it compels a firm to address some tough questions: What is our business? Why do we exist? What are we trying to accomplish?” (Bart, 1998).

Our Mission. As you can see, we are an enthusiastic collective with a common passion – betting on sports. That’s why our team can relate to you so easily and provide you with complete and relevant information that covers every last detail. Looking at the bigger picture, we did spend some time to carefully inspect each and every of our featured bookmakers. You have probably read or at least heard these disturbing stories about an average bloke, who got lucky and won a great deal of cash. Sadly, the plot twist comes and his cheeky grin freezes once the bookmaker refuses to pay him for one reason or another. Don’t worry, this is exactly what you will NOT get by siding with any of our featured operators. They all have an outstanding reputation throughout the UK and guarantee you safe and sound betting experience, we are totally independent and have the freedom to say it like it is.


Betting Review Ratings Explained

Read about the criteria we usedBefore writing any reviews, the team sat together discussing what makes a great betting site. As with most things in life, what’s good for Peter might not be good for Paul. However, on closer examination, we agreed on what is important to us all and what would influence our scores.

For each and every review, we consider over 40 individual factors. Obvious things like initial bonus amounts are taken into account but also more obscure information like how many touches does it take on an Ipad to bet on Shrewsbury Town winning a League 2 encounter are also considered to give you ultimate satisfaction with our reviews.

This level of detail makes us very confident to advocate sites to you, our highly recommended sites are not just good, they are top of their class. To really ensure you are matched to a bookmakers that meets your needs, if we find a bookmaker is lacking in a certain area we will do our best to recommend another so you can make an informed decision.