La Liga teams are the most successful in European Cup history, lifting the trophy on 120occasions.

Selecting a greatest ever La Liga XI is no easy feat. Comparisons need to be made between the dominant teams of decades past and the golden era 21st century icons.

La Liga All-Time Best XI:

• Iker Casillas
• Dani Alves
• Gerard Pique
• Sergio Ramos
• Roberto Carlos
• Xavi
• Andres Iniesta
• Zinedine Zidane
• Johan Cruyff
• Lionel Messi
• Cristiano Ronaldo

Some names, like Barcelona and Real Madrid in La Liga betting, are locks. Other positions were more contentious.

Our team lines up in a 4-3-3 with marauding full-backs from Brazil and an entirely non-Spanish front line featuring three of the most important players in the history of the sport.

The midfield was perhaps where the decisions were trickiest, with some big names left out of the XI. 

Wherever La Liga ranks among the best leagues in European football, there’s no denying the strength of this team. It’s the the most impressive of any we’ve compiled so far.

Tennis umpires face an arduous schedule. Those at the top of the game are tasked with managing some difficult situations in the intensity of Grand Slam battle. They can be at the centre of moments which sway tennis betting.

On the biggest stages, the pressure is high for the players, and that is matched for the umpires. Imagine the eyes of Centre Court on you in the Wimbledon final.

Their every decision will be watched over by millions around the world, many of which will have engaged in some live betting.

Technology has made their jobs easier in recent years, but no piece of technology can help to calm down irate players.

The best umpires can keep tense situations under control, all while maintaining the match is officiated to the highest possible standard.

Let’s learn a bit more about the life of tennis umpires, starting with some salary information…

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The Champions League may be prestigious and elite, the very pinnacle of European football, but mismatches still occur.

Once in a while, a team continues to disprove the Champions League betting and makes it all the way beyond the qualifying rounds to the group stage where the big boys await.

In Estonia they are the reigning champions, the best of their peers. Suddenly, they’re in the Bernabeu, cast as minnows and hopelessly outclassed.

Where possible, we have omitted these occasions when Goliath swatted aside a plucky David.

Instead, we’ve focused on the times when two behemoths have met, with one ruthlessly dismantling the other.

Think the two T-Rexs in Jurassic Park turning on one another, but rather than an almighty scrap ensuing, it is bizarrely one-sided. These are results that shocked a watching continent.  

Humiliating Champions League Defeats:

• Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Munich (2019/20)
• Barcelona 6-1 Paris Saint-Germain (2016/17)
• Borussia Dortmund 7-1 Celtic (2024/25)
• Bayern Munich 9-2 Dinamo Zagreb (2024/25)
• Manchester City 7-0 RB Leipzig (2022/23)
• Tottenham Hotspur 2-7 Bayern Munich (2019/20)
• Liverpool 2-5 Real Madrid (2022/23)
• Manchester United 7-1 AS Roma (2006/07)
• Liverpool 8-0 Besiktas (2007/08) 
• PSV Eindhoven 1-7 Arsenal (2024/25)

If these results tell us anything, it’s that even at the very highest level expensively assembled teams full of household names can spectacularly collapse.   

So, without further ado, it is time to count down the 10 most embarrassing defeats in Champions League history – do you agree with our football rankings?

Liverpool 8-0 Besiktas 

With a team sprinkled with Turkish internationals, Besiktas had beaten Liverpool in the corresponding fixture just two weeks before, the Brazilian forward Bobo scoring a late winner in Istanbul and giving the Black Eagles every chance of qualifying from Group A.

The visitors therefore presumably arrived at Anfield in good spirits, particularly as they topped Super Lig at the time, as per battling it out with their domestic arch-rivals Galatasaray. 

Rafa Benitez’s Reds however simply blew them away, committing men forward at every opportunity and not giving an overwhelmed opposition time to settle.

The game was all-but-won by the break, Liverpool two goals to the good. The second half was as brutal a demolition this competition has seen.

Ryan Babel scored twice. That alone tells the whole sorry tale. 

Manchester United 7-1 AS Roma

Holding a 2-1 advantage after a very competitive first leg in the Italian capital, Roma headed to Old Trafford in pretty solid form.

They had knocked out Lyon in the round of 16, and looked well-set to reach the last four.

Manchester United, however, had other ideas.

Alex Ferguson’s side mounted a ninety minute assault on the senses, taking a 3-0 lead before the 20-minute mark and adding three more before Roma scored their lone goal in the 69th minute.

The Red Devils were knocked out at the semis by Milan, who went on to beat Liverpool in the final. 

Liverpool 2-5 Real Madrid

A three-goal loss to the defending champions isn’t the heaviest defeat we’ve seen in the Champions League, but the manner of it was alarming.

Liverpool and Real had formed a rivalry after Los Blancos defeated Jurgen Klopp’s team in two finals.

The Reds were in the midst of a disappointing season, with the Champions League their best hope of a positive campaign.

In dreamland when Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah put them 2-0 up 14 minutes into the last 16 tie, it all came crumbling down in the matter of a few moments.

Real were level by the 36th minute and were 5-2 up half-an-hour of game-time later. Liverpool’s defence completely fell apart in their biggest match of the season. 

Tottenham 2-7 Bayern Munich

A week is a long time in football. Four months can alter a narrative completely.

On June 1st, Spurs took on Liverpool in the biggest game in their history.

Though admittedly pitched as underdogs in the Champions League final betting, and though ultimately they lost 2-0, it was a statement of the enormous strides the club was making under Mauricio Pochettino. 

They were now one of the prominent players on the continental stage. 

On October 1st, they were subjected to a 7-2 hammering at the hands of Bayern Munich in the group stage. Reality bit, and bit so hard it drew blood. 

Heung-min Son put the Lilywhites ahead 12 minutes in, but Bayern scored four more unanswered prior to Harry Kane’s 61st-minute penalty.

FC Hollywood then netted three in five minutes before the final whistle to wrap up a drubbing.

Former Arsenal winger Serge Gnabry finished with four goals, rubbing greater salt into some painful Spurs wounds.

Pochettino was sacked a matter of weeks later. 

Manchester City 7-0 RB Leipzig

After a competitive 1-1 draw in the first leg, RB Leipzig must have fancied their chances of an upset as the tie headed to Manchester. What followed was a humiliation for the Bundesliga club. 

Erling Haaland effectively wrapped the tie up for Pep Guardiola’s side with a first-half hat-trick.

The Norwegian added two more after the break. Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin De Bruyne also getting on the scoresheet.

Leipzig were not the first or last team to lose heavily at the Etihad, but such a thumping in a Champions League knockout match is always crushing.

Bayern Munich 9-2 Dinamo Zagreb

Vincent Kompany has had a clear impact at Bayern Munich and his side have been running riot in the final third, and that was evident in the 9-2 victory over Dinamo Zagreb in the 2024/25 Champions League group stages.

Harry Kane scored four goals on the night, with three coming from the penalty spot as the Bavarians took full advantage of some haphazard defending. It truly was a night to forget for the visiting side at the Allianz Arena.

Things could've been even worse for the Croatian side, with the officials ruling not one but two Bayern goals out on the night.

This seven-goal mauling tied Bayern's highest ever margin of victory in the Champions League and it wouldn't be a huge shock to see the Bundesliga giants feature on this list again in the not-so-distant future.

Borussia Dortmund 7-1 Celtic

Celtic had won nine from nine in all competitions going into their Champions League clash with Borussia Dortmund but the Scottish champions were outclassed and embarrassed, conceding five goals in the first half.

In doing so, they became the first British club to ship five goals in a single half of a major European match since Cwmbran Town in 1997/98 and Brendan Rodgers had absolutely no excuses for Celtic's performance on the night.

Karim Adeyemi was a revelation and proved a constant thorn in Celtic's side, bagging a first half hat-trick in the space of 31 minutes to add salt to the Bhoys' wounds.

One post-match report suggested that Celtic were lucky to only concede seven and this game could've hit even greater heights had Dortmund not spurned a number of clear opportunities to add to their goals tally. It was an embarrassing night for Scotland's biggest football club.

Barcelona 6-1 PSG

In a blockbuster last 16 tie PSG headed to Spain comfortably buffered by a 4-0 first-leg win.

Surely, they were finally proving they could compete with Europe’s elite on the biggest stage of them all? Not quite.

Barcelona prepared for the second leg with a 5-0 win over Celta, which proved to be a sign of things to come.

Luis Suarez put the hosts ahead three minutes in, setting them on the right track, but the second goal didn’t come until the 40th minute.

Lionel Messi made it 3-0 with 50 minutes on the clock, but Edinson Cavani got an away goal for PSG which seemed to have blunted Barca’s shot at history. 

PSG imploded after being angered at having a penalty shout turned down. Neymar found the net with a free-kick in the 88th minute, giving the hosts a glimmer of hope.

A penalty for the hosts was converted moments later before Sergi Roberto’s dramatic tie-winning goal five minutes into added time. 

Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Munich

Played behind closed doors in Lisbon, we can only imagine what the atmosphere would have been like had this taken place at a packed Camp Nou.

This quarter-final drubbing was the first time Barcelona had conceded eight goals in a match since 1946.

Remarkably, Barca took an early lead through an early David Alaba own goal. Bayern, though, were 5-1 up with 31 minutes on the clock.

Images of a dejected Lionel Messi are the long-standing memory of this fixture. It was symbolic of how far Barcelona had fallen due to ageing core players and some poor recruitment decisions.

Bayern ultimately won the competition, and Messi left for PSG 12 months later.

PSV Eindhoven 1-7 Arsenal

Missing several key attacking players through injury, a trip to the Netherlands was a potential banana skin for Arsenal. PSV Eindhoven weren't in the best form, but they had knocked Juventus out in the playoffs and drawn away to PSG in the league phase.

What followed was a humiliating defeat to the Dutch giants in front of a frustrated Philips Stadion crowd.

Jurrien Timber, Ethan Nwaneri, and Mikel Merino took the Gunners to a 3-0 lead just after the half-hour mark. A penalty from Noa Lang gave PSV some hope before the break, but Arsenal delivered a scintillating second-half performance, featuring a brace from Martin Odegaard en route to a 7-1 win. 

Its prevalence as a football betting powerhouse has declined. Serie A is not the force it once was, yet the prestige of Italy’s top flight cannot be questioned.

Serie A has been home to some of the world’s great forwards. From Cristiano Ronaldo to George Weah, from Marco van Basten to Giuseppe Meazza, Italian football may have a reputation for its steely defences, but it has never been short of attacking talent.

The mix of homegrown stars and imported goal-getters is phenomenal. Let’s take a look at some of Serie A’s goal scoring records.

Serie A All-Time Top Scorers List:

1. Silvio Piola - 274 goals
2. Francesco Totti - 250 goals
3. Gunnar Nordahl - 225 goals
4. Giuseppe Meazza - 216 goals
5. Jose Altafini - 216 goals
6. Antonio di Natale - 209 goals
7. Roberto Baggio - 205 goals
8. Ciro Immobile - 201 goals
9. Kurt Hamrin - 190 goals
10. Giuseppe Signori - 188 goals
11. Alberto Gilardino - 188 goals
12. Alessandro del Piero - 188 goals
13. Gabriel Batistuta – 183 goals
14. Fabio Quagliarella – 182 goals
15. Giampiero Boniperti – 178 goals

Most Goals In A Serie A Season:

Gonzalo Higuain and Ciro Immobile share this record. Both scored 36 in a single Serie A season. Higuain achieved the feat back in 2015/16, while Immobile starred for Lazio in 2019/20.

This is a lower tally than other major European leagues. Lionel Messi scored 50 in a La Liga season, and Gerd Muller found the net 40 times in the 1971/72 Bundesliga campaign.

Immobile climbed to eighth all-time on the top scorers list, just behind Roberto Baggio. Along with his record-equalling 36 goals in 2019/20, Immobile had six other Serie A seasons with 20 or more goals.

Higuain is behind Andriy Shevchenko in 48th. 

Youngest Serie A Goal Scorer:

Amedeo Amadei has the honour of being the youngest scorer in Serie A history. It’s one of many long-standing records, too. Amadei was just 15 years and 287 days old when he found the net for Roma against Lucchese in May of 1937.

The Frascati-born striker went on to play a season with Atalanta before returning to Roma, where he starred for the majority of his career.

Amadei was in the capital for nearly a decade before transferring to Inter in 1948 and then Napoli in 1950.

Oldest Serie A Goal Scorer:

Milan legend Alessandro Costacurta holds the record for being the oldest goal scorer in Serie A history. Costacurta was 41 years and 25 days old when he found the net against Udinese back in 2007.

This record is particularly remarkable as Costacurta scored just three goals in his 663 appearances for Milan.

He won five Champions Leagues along the way, lifted the Scudetto seven times, and was unsurprisingly inducted into the AC Milan Hall of Fame.

Youngest Players To 100 Serie A Goals:

Owner of Serie A records aplenty, it’s not exactly a shock to see Giuseppe Meazza top of the pile here.

Meazza had 100 Serie A goals just 32 days after his 23rd birthday, but he’s only just number one. Silvio Piola achieved the feat at the age of 23 years and 68 days.

Jumping to the modern era, Mauro Icardi and Edinson Cavani sit sixth and seventh on the list respectively. Icardi scored his 100th 27 days after his 25th birthday, while Cavani was just a few weeks before his 26th birthday.

Most Serie A Hat-Tricks:

Swedish great Gunnar Nordahl and Giuseppe Meazza share the record for the most hat-tricks in Serie A with 17 apiece. No other player has scored more than 12 hat-tricks.

Of players to play after 1980, Filippo Inzaghi is the leader with 10 Serie A hat-tricks, ahead of Roberto Baggio, Hernan Crespo and Marco van Basten with eight each.

Meazza is tied fourth all-time in Serie A goals with 216. Having played for Inter, Milan and Juventus, he is one of the most significant figures in the history of Italian football.

Nordahl is less well-known. His goal scoring record is better than Meazza’s, however, with his tally of 225 only bettered by Francesco Totti and Silvio Piola.

Of players with 100 or more Serie A goals, Nordahl’s 0.77 goals per game is comfortably best of the bunch. Meazza is down at 0.59, and the great Gabriel Batistuta is at 0.58.

Serie A Top Scorers By Season:

• 1929/30: Giuseppe Meazza – 31 goals
• 1930/31: Rodolfo Volk – 29 goals
• 1931/12: Angelo Schiavio, Pedro Petrone – 25 goals
• 1932/33: Felice Borel – 29 goals
• 1933/34: Felice Borel – 31 goals
• 1934/35: Enrique Guaita – 28 goals
• 1935/36: Giuseppe Meazza – 25 goals
• 1936/37: Silvio Piola – 21 goals
• 1937/38: Giuseppe Meazza – 20 goals
• 1938/39: Ettore Puricelli, Aldo Boffi – 19 goals
• 1939/40: Aldo Boffi – 24 goals
• 1940/41: Ettore Puricelli – 22 goals
• 1941/42: Aldo Boffi – 22 goals
• 1942/43: Silvio Piola – 21 goals
• 1943-45: N/A
• 1945/46: Guglielmo Gabetto – 22 goals
• 1946/47: Valentino Mazzola – 29 goals
• 1947/48: Giampiero Boniperti – 27 goals
• 1948/49: Istvan Nyers – 26 goals
• 1949/50: Gunnar Nordahl – 35 goals
• 1950/51: Gunnar Nordahl – 34 goals
• 1951/12: John Hansen – 30 goals
• 1952/53: Gunnar Nordahl – 26 goals
• 1953/54: Gunnar Nordahl – 23 goals
• 1954/55: Gunnar Nordahl – 27 goals
• 1955/56: Gino Pivatelli – 29 goals
• 1956/57: Dino da Costa – 22 goals
• 1957/58: John Charles – 28 goals
• 1958/59: Antonio Valentin Angelilo – 33 goals
• 1959/60: Omar Sivori – 28 goals
• 1960/61: Sergio Brighenti – 27 goals
• 1961/62: Jose Altafini, Aurelio Milani – 22 goals
• 1962/63: Harald Nielsen, Pedro Manfredini – 19 goals
• 1963/64: Harald Nielsen – 21 goals
• 1964/65: Sandro Mazzola, Alberto Orlando – 17 goals
• 1965/66: Luis Vinicio – 25 goals
• 1966/67: Gigi Riva – 18 goals
• 1967/68: Pierino Prati – 15 goals
• 1968/69: Gigi Riva – 21 goals
• 1969/70: Gigi Riva – 21 goals
• 1970/71: Roberto Boninsegna – 24 goals
• 1971/72: Roberto Boninsegna – 22 goals
• 1972/73: Giuseppe Savoldi, Paolino Pulici, Gianni Rivera – 17 goals
• 1973/74: Giorgio Chinaglia – 24 goals
• 1974/75: Paolino Pulici – 18 goals
• 1975/76: Paolino Pulici – 21 goals
• 1976/77: Francesco Graziani – 21 goals
• 1977/78: Paolo Rossi – 24 goals
• 1978/79: Bruno Giordano – 19 goals
• 1979/80: Roberto Bettega – 16 goals
• 1980/81: Roberto Pruzzo – 18 goals
• 1981/82: Roberto Pruzzo – 15 goals
• 1982/83: Michel Platini – 16 goals
• 1983/84: Michel Platini – 20 goals
• 1984/85: Michel Platini – 18 goals
• 1985/86: Roberto Pruzzo – 19 goals
• 1986/87: Pietro Paolo Virdis – 17 goals
• 1987/88: Diego Maradona – 15 goals
• 1988/89: Aldo Serena – 22 goals
• 1989/90: Marco van Basten – 19 goals
• 1990/91: Gianluca Vialli – 19 goals
• 1991/92: Marco van Basten – 25 goals
• 1992/93: Giuseppe Signori – 26 goals
• 1993/94: Giuseppe Signori – 23 goals
• 1994/95: Gabriel Batistuta – 26 goals
• 1995/96: Igor Protti, Giuseppe Signori – 24 goals
• 1996/97: Filippo Inzaghi – 24 goals
• 1997/98: Oliver Bierhoff – 27 goals
• 1998/99: Marcio Amoroso – 22 goals
• 1999/20: Andriy Shevchenko – 24 goals
• 2000/01: Hernan Crespo – 26 goals
• 2001/02: David Trezeguet, Dario Hubner – 24 goals
• 2002/03: Christian Vieri – 24 goals
• 2003/04: Andriy Shevchenko – 24 goals
• 2004/05: Cristiano Lucarelli – 24 goals
• 2005/06: Luca Toni – 31 goals
• 2006/07: Francesco Totti – 26 goals
• 2007/08: Alessandro Del Piero – 21 goals
• 2008/09: Zlatan Ibrahimovic – 25 goals
• 2009/10: Antonio Di Natale – 29 goals
• 2010/11: Antonio Di Natale – 28 goals
• 2011/12: Zlatan Ibrahimovic – 28 goals
• 2012/13: Edinson Cavani – 29 goals
• 2013/14: Ciro Immobile – 22 goals
• 2014/15: Mauro Icardi, Luca Toni – 22 goals
• 2015/16: Gonzalo Higuain – 36 goals
• 2016/17: Edin Dzeko – 29 goals
• 2017/18: Mauro Icardi, Ciro Immobile – 29 goals
• 2018/19: Fabio Quagliarella – 26 goals
• 2019/20: Ciro Immobile – 36 goals
• 2020/21: Cristiano Ronaldo - 29 goals
• 2021/22: Ciro Immobile - 27 goals
• 2022/23: Victor Osimhen - 26 goals
• 2023/24: Lautaro Martinez - 24 goals
• 2024/25: Mateo Retegui - 25 goals

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Even with all the technology at our disposal, it is almost impossible to follow every single football match result – whether you are a Premier League fan or prefer European soccer.

This is where the Zoom Livescore website comes into play. Zoom Scores helps keep soccer fans updated with the latest scores and results on almost every league around the world, from the highest-paid PL managers to the latest Chelsea net spend figures.

Keen football betting fans will be familiar with the Zoom live scores platform, with millions of users visiting the website to keep up with the best goals, football results and news.

Known by some as Zoom Virtual Soccer, the Zoom livescore website is easy to use and gives football fans around the world a chance to follow goal updates as they go in.

So without further ado, it is time to take a closer look at the Zoomscore 24 website and how it operates. Like Flashscores and SPBO, Zoom live scores is a football score page worth exploring...

Zoom Live Score

There are several Zoom Score domains on the internet and football fans from all over the world need only search for zoomlivescore to find some examples.

With football scores available at the click of a button, is it any wonder why Zoom Scores and other live score websites are among the most visited sport websites around?

The Zoom Virtual Soccer aspect is slightly different, with goal updates and results from virtual fixtures but most users visit the webpage for real-time football scores.

Covering the largest football competitions on the planet and a wide array of matches from local leagues in Africa, Asia and South America, punters can find scores 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Zoom Livescore Domains

When searching for Zoom Livescore on search engines, one of the first pages to appear is fscore.net – this is one of the more reliable options for free football scores online.

Fans can follow football events in real time without the need to wait for soccer highlights on YouTube or via Match of the Day.

In addition, sports betting punters can access important statistics that can help users to make an informed decision when looking to place a bet on soccer.

Rival Live Score Websites 

The likes of Zoom Livescore and SPBO are major players in the live goal updates and results industry but there are a plethora of options for football fans to choose from.

One of the biggest free live score websites around, Futbol24 have earned a trusted reputation after the website was established back in 2000.

These websites are legal and almost all are free to use, making them a ‘go to’ for football supporters around the world – from Nigeria to the United States.

Without a shadow of a doubt, the live football scores industry is saturated and there are so many places for sports fans to follow every goal, result and transfer rumour.

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The days of only watching live sport on cable or satellite television are well and truly over.

In the modern technological era, streaming online has blossomed into one of the most popular methods of watching sport.

With each year that goes by, the number of football betting fans around the world watching sports via streaming sites increases.

With the likes of DAZN, Premier Sports and Eurosport offering a reliable subscription sports streaming service, watching sports online has never been easier. Every major broadcaster also has high-quality apps. 

However, many still watch free sports streaming sites – whether that is due to affordability or sport unavailable in specific territories.

So instead, sports lovers head to free streaming sites, such as Cricfree, to watch the biggest football matches, UFC fight streams and live boxing bouts.

What Is Cricfree?

Regarded as one of the more reliable free sports streaming websites, Cricfree offer a wide range of links for viewers to watch the biggest sport events online.

From pay-per-view boxing streams to free-to-air football channels, Cricfree TV try to cover major events to ensure viewers can follow their bet of the day with minimal fuss.

Premier League streams, Champions League live streams and UFC streams are a few of the most popular services on the Cric Free platform.

Essentially, Cricfree is a free sports streaming site akin to Ronaldo7 and Myp2p – though we strongly recommend watching sport online via an official broadcaster.

Cricfree TV Channels

There are plenty of websites and domains using the Cricfree name – a quick Google search will tell you that much.

Cricfree are not restricted to sports content, with movies, television shows and lots more available to registered account holders.

However, a large percentage of people searching Cric free TV will be looking to watch live sport online. The sports streaming service remains the site’s main function.

Be wary of using any free sports streaming site – whether it is Cricfree, a copycat website or similar streaming pages, such as Jokerlivestream or Pirlo TV.

Here is a list of some Cricfree live streaming domains:

• Cricfree.be
• Cricfree.pw
• Cricfree.to
• Crickfree.be
• Crickfree.net

Is Cricfree working?

Regular visitors to free sports streaming sites will be familiar with poor connection and that is no different at Cricfree TV – users are often greeted with a ‘Cricfree down’ message.

Even the best sports streaming platform has issues and that is one of the risks you take if you decide to visit a free online streaming website.

Cricfree developers work hard to try and keep the Cricfree site working but there can be no guarantees that sports streams will function appropriately.

Live streaming requires a stable network connection and a competent server and many free streaming sites, such as Totalsportek and Rojadirecta, cannot cope with the sheer number of fans tuning in.

As always, we recommend watching football online via an official broadcaster to guarantee the best sports streaming experience possible.

• Batmanstream is one of the ‘go to’ pages for fans who want to watch sports streams online
• Along with Jokerlivestream and Hulkstream, Batman stream plays on a famous comic book hero
• Batman-stream users claim the website is user-friendly and offers free HD sport streaming

Batmanstream is a free-to-use sports streaming website that has been functioning on the internet for many years, though it isn’t overly popular with sports betting fans.

Known by plenty of users who stream sport online, Batman Stream is accessible and offers viewers a simple streaming experience.

The Batmanstream homepage is organised and clear, with links to different sports at the top of the page and the Batman stream chat.

It’s useful whether you’re looking to watch teams with the most famous football nicknames, tune into the latest T20 cricket tournament, or stream NBA action. 

Overall, the website design is nice and easy to use – with functionality taking centre stage as the most important factor on the Batmanstream platform.

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One of many football streaming sites on the internet, Pirlo TV has gone from strength to strength and it is now one of the most frequented websites for watching sport online.

PirloTV hosts football streams on its domain, allowing viewers to watch soccer for free while also chatting to fellow supporters about the latest football news.

Named after Italy legend Andrea Pirlo, the PirloTV platform has no direct link to the former Juventus star – the name is the only connection between the two.

Football betting fans will have heard of Pirlo TV online, especially those living in Italy and Spain. The PirloTV platform is particularly popular in these two countries.

Lovers of the beautiful game have had access to new ways of watching football online in recent years, with PirloTV APK software allowing football fans to tune in on a mobile device.

As is the case with Rojadirecta and other sports streaming sites, the webpage broadcasts hundreds of sports events daily to thousands of sport lovers across the globe.

Here, we talk about the PirloTV online platform – not Italy star Andrea Pirlo – but focusing on how the Pirlo TV site operates, obstacles faced and how users watch PirloTV.

We condemn the use of sports streaming sites and would always advise sports fans to watch live sport via official broadcasting channels.

Each week, Ste Tudor will cast his expert eye over the current state of the Premier League sack race - who will be the next manager to leave their position or be sacked in 2025/26?

Before we focus on the favourites in the sack race it’s worth dropping in on a couple of rank outsiders beyond the 20/1 bar. That’s because their distant odds in the football betting to be the next manager relieved of their post contrasts wholly with their team’s present league position.

Scott Parker at Burnley is a perfect example of this, the Clarets languishing near the foot of the table and priced up at 3/10 to drop come May.

Yet the common consensus appears to be that Parker is secure for the time being. It feels highly unlikely that the ex-England international’s head will be next on the chopping block.

The same goes for Keith Andrew at Brentford, and this is despite the Bees hovering just above the drop-zone, five places below where they stood at this point last year.

The reasons for these supposed anomalies are simple, illustrating that context is everything when it comes to manager odds in the sack race. Indeed, context trumps league position almost every time.

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In Parker’s case, nobody expected Burnley to endure anything other than a season of struggle, after coming up with a squad short of Premier League quality.

As for Andrew, this is his first ever managerial role and it’s an extremely tough one, inheriting a side now devoid of Norgaard’s leadership and 30+ goals courtesy of Wissa and Mbeumo.

Premier League Manager Betting Odds:

•  Ange Postecoglou - 4/9
• Ruben Amorim - 10/3
• Bar - 16/1

And it is context that leads us to Ange Postecoglou, the hot favourite in the sports betting to be the next top-flight manager sacked.

What context tells us here is that poor results and a lowly league position had nothing to do with his predecessor, Nuno Espirito Santo, getting the boot. Instead, there was an unrecoverable breakdown in the Portuguese coach’s working relationship with Nottingham Forest’s owner Evangelos Marinakis. That’s what did for him.

In fact, Santo’s work in the East Midlands had largely been excellent, guiding the Tricky Trees into Europe last term, against all expectation.

Postecoglou therefore does not have the luxury of being able to transform Forest, to improve them. He has the much more challenging task of maintaining their over-achievement.

Which, to date, he has unquestionably failed to do, overseeing five defeats and two draws across all comps at the time of writing.

Precariously placed 17th in the league table, and out of a domestic cup, Nottingham Forest have no desire to go backwards. Marinakis has no desire to go backwards. They were getting a taste of the high-life and moreover getting used to it. Context.

Not far behind Postecoglou in the betting is Ruben Amorim, a man whose consistent floundering at Manchester United could one day become a case study in how not to manage a big club.

Welding himself to a system that fails to get cohesive showings from his players, Amorim can consider himself fortunate not to be jettisoned already, having overseen a disastrous campaign last season. United lost just shy of half of their fixtures and ultimately posted their lowest league finish for fifty years.

To this juncture the club’s hierarchy have been uncharacteristically tolerant of the ongoing fiasco, clearly having no great appetite to admit defeat and start anew.

But after splurging £200m-plus on attacking talent over the summer, will that frayed patience finally snap soon, with performances still veering from good to atrocious on a weekly basis?

Away trips to Anfield, Forest, Spurs and Palace over the next two months will surely provide an answer.

Next up, there is Daniel Farke at Leeds, a surprise third favourite for dismissal it has to be said, though the German is quite some distance behind Postecoglou and Amorim.

Within the club, allowances will almost certainly be made for Leeds being newly promoted, and having to acclimatise to a higher level of football, but it’s key that the Yorkshire giant competes well at home.

Their last two results have been a draw vs Bournemouth and a loss to Spurs, both at Elland Road.

Beyond Farke, there are four managers, all priced up around the 20/1 mark, they being Marco Silva, Enzo Maresca, Vitor Pereira, and Unai Emery.

From these it is Pereira at most risk of imminent dismissal, Wolves rooted to the foot of the table.

What Is The Premier League Sack Race?

In 2023, a detailed and depressing report by UEFA revealed that the average tenure of a manager across Europe’s top five leagues amounted to just 15 months.

That same year, there were 735 sackings in Europe’s top-flight divisions with the Premier League alone seeing 15 changes of head coach. That lofty figure focuses only on permanent switches, not the appointment of interim bosses, or managers resigning.

Incidentally, what an ironic word to use ‘permanent’ is. Just two years on, none of those 15 appointments are still in their roles.

When assessing the current roster of Premier League gaffers we find that 65% were appointed in 2024 or thereafter while two managers – Nuno Espirito Santo and Graham Potter - have already received their P45 a mere seven games in.

Is it any wonder therefore that football management is sometimes referred to as the most precarious job around?

A lion tamer wearing Lady Gaga’s meat dress has better prospects, and more security.

What’s more, it only gets worse for the present crop because the sacking season is just around the corner, that time of the year when club chairmen collectively press the panic button in the blind hope that it doubles up as a reset.

How Many Premier League Managers Are Sacked?

Across the last 12 seasons, 89 Premier League managers have either been sacked or left via ‘mutual consent’ during the course of a campaign. A notable 51.6% of them had their desks cleared between mid-November and the end of February.

There are two ways of viewing this, neither of them right nor wrong, both subjective.

Should we put sentiment to one side, and the sobering acknowledgment that a man has temporarily lost his livelihood, we could perhaps admit there is some degree of logic to over half of top-flight sackings occurring in this period.

Because, even if employed that summer, a coach has had a transfer window, pre-season, numerous games and three international breaks to implement his methods and mould a team. If results are subsequently going from bad to worse it heavily suggests he is not the right fit for that club.

Alternatively, it could be opined that club owners these days are far too guilty of short-term thinking and that it typically takes a substantial amount of time to turn a team’s fortunes around.

After all, managers are very rarely appointed into a successful gig, complete with a happy changing room and players firing on every cylinder. They get the job in the first place because a team has fundamental issues that need to be addressed as priority before a new direction can be taken.

Regardless, this is the reality in which we now reside in, and furthermore there is another truth that must be recognized.

It is that a domino effect tends to occur. When one goes, another follows soon after.

With sackings taking place especially early this season that doesn’t bode well for those currently in the spotlight, their jobs very much on the line.

*Odds subject to change - prices accurate at the time of writing*

The Championship is widely regarded as the most competitive league in football betting. With each team playing 46 matches, it is a gruelling division that puts even the most gifted players to the test.

Most Expensive Championship Signings

• Sindre Walli Egeli - £17.5 million
• Mike Tresor - £16 million
• Ruben Neves – £15.8 million
• Britt Assombalonga - £15 million
• Joao Carvalho - £13.1 million
• Helder Costa - £13.1 million
• Ross McCormack - £12.5 million
• Joel Piroe - £12.3 million
• Harry Wilson - £12.24 million
• Finn Azaz - £12.2 million

It’s common knowledge that the average Championship wage is significantly lower than the Premier League but transfer fees in England’s second tier have certainly increased in recent years.

Finn Azaz

After scoring 12 goals for Middlesbrough in 2024-25, Finn Azaz became one of the most expensive players in Championship history. Financially bolstered by their parachute players, Southampton splashed the cash in an effort to get straight back to the Premier League.

It seemed like a big fee for a player with Azaz’s track record. Saints (a popular football nickname) have been erratic in the transfer market over the last few years.

Harry Wilson

Initially on loan from Liverpool, Harry Wilson completed a permanent move to Fulham in 2021-22. The fee was believed to be in the £14 million range.

Wilson was named to the Championship Team of the Year in 2021-22 as the west London club racked up 90 points and earned automatic promotion to the Premier League.

Wilson finished the season with 11 goals, which was the joint-second most of any Fulham player that term. His 19 assists in 2021-22 were six more than any other Championship player.

Joël Piroe

After suffering relegation, Leeds splashed a reported figure of £14 million on Joël Piroe from Swansea City.

Piroe had scored 44 goals over two seasons with the Welsh club and was named the club’s Player of the Year in 2021-22.

As Leeds pursued a return to the Premier League, Piroe was a regular in the first team. Only Daniel James and Crysencio Summerville scored more goals for the Yorkshire club in 2023-24. He made his first ever Premier League appearance for Leeds in 2025-26.

Ross McCormack

Ross McCormack was a fantastic striker during his stints at Leeds United and Fulham – and his goal scoring exploits in west London were enough to convince Aston Villa to fork out over £12 million to sign the Scotland forward in 2016.

His time at Villa Park was a major disappointment, with McCormack scoring just three goals in 24 appearances. He was released by the club in 2019 having spent most of his Villa career out on loan.

Helder Costa

Leeds United made Wolves an offer they couldn’t refuse in the summer of 2019. The Portuguese moved to Elland Road on loan for a year with a four-year contract to be signed in July 2020.

While Rui Patricio, Ruben Neves and Joao Moutinho flourished at Wolves, Costa found himself out of favour but he has thrived since joining Leeds and featured regularly in the Premier League.

Joao Carvalho

Nottingham Forest moved to sign Joao Carvalho from Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer of 2018 – a move that signalled Forest’s intent to challenge for Championship glory.

The Portugal under-21 midfielder cost Forest a hefty fee and it is fair to say that he didn’t live up to his transfer fee. Forest sold Carvalho to Olympiacos in January 2022.

Britt Assombalonga

Middlesbrough set their sights on Britt Assombalonga back in 2017, forking out an estimated £15 million to sign the striker from Nottingham Forest. Having scored 30 goals in 65 matches for Forest, Boro fans were expecting big things from their new striker.

Assombalonga notched 15 goals in his first season at the club and helped Boro reach the playoff semi-finals. After finding the net just five times in 2020-21, Assombalonga left the club, and has had two separate stints in Turkey.

Ruben Neves

Technically gifted and a class above his peers, Ruben Neves is arguably the greatest player to grace the Championship -- £15 million was a bargain. And that is not an exaggeration in any way, shape or form.

Neves was central to Wolves’ promotion campaign and held his own in the Premier League. Despite regularly being linked with a move to a Champions League club, Neves opted to chase the money and signed with Saudi Pro League outfit Al Hilal in 2023.

Mike Tresor

A full Belgium international, Mike Tresor became the most expensive Championship player ever in May 2024.

Burnley signed Tresor from Genk on an initial loan for the 2023-24 season, with the deal becoming permanent at the end of the season for around £16 million.

Tresor led the Belgium Pro League in assists in 2022-23. Injuries have meant Tresor has been a non-factor for the Lancashire club.

Sindre Walle Egeli

Sindre Walle Egeli broke Tresor’s transfer record when he signed for Ipswich in 2025. The Norwegian had only scored 11 Superliga goals when he made the move to East Anglia, but he still recouped the largest transfer fee in Nordsjaelland’s history.

It’s an investment in his future. Ipswich will hope Walle Egeli can help get them back into the Premier League and hopefully join the list of Championship top scorers by season.

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