JOHN BARNES SIGNS FIVE FIGURE DEAL AS PUNDIT FOR TOTOPOOLS.COM.

With Pictures

Attention Sports Desks

PR Newswire, London, August 16. This press release is transmitted on behalf of totopools.com

With the football season about to kick off it's time to put your football knowledge to the test, put your money where your mouth is and log on to the hottest new football gaming website around, totopools.com - guaranteed to revolutionise football pools as we know it.

Ex- England and Liverpool star John Barnes has joined the TotoPools team as their very own football pundit utilising his football knowledge to predict results providing tips to help online gamers spend their money wisely.

Football pools have always been a traditional part of the Saturday football experience but now with the launch of TotoPools.com, gone are the days of filling in your coupons and having them collected at your door by an old dear! TotoPools looks set to reinvent the UK's football pools by bringing them to a younger, technology-savvy football fan through Internet, mobile and interactive TV services.

The UK has seen a massive increase in the popularity of online gambling with new audiences finding it more accessible than traditional channels such as the bricks and mortar shops and door-to-door pools collectors. The market has grown dramatically with 7.4 million people estimated to gamble online around the world by 2005.

Whether you're at work or at home simply log onto the site at http://www.totopools.com, register and make your predictions, it's that simple. With every game played contributing to the prize pool, you could be raking it in for a minimum investment of only 75p.

Like football, love totopools -

Luck's Got Nothing To Do With It!

Ex England and Liverpool Star John Barnes's Top Tips for the first games of the season...

Charlton V Everton

home win

Derby V Blackburn

Draw

Leeds v Souhtampton

Home win

Leicester v Bolton

Home win

Chelsea v Newcastle

home win

Liverpool v West Ham

Manchester United v Fulham

Home win

Middlesborough v Arsenal

Away win

Sunderland v Ipswich

Home Win

Tottenham v Aston Villa

Home Win

Brnsley v Nottingham Forrest

Home win

Birmingham v Millwall

Home win

Coventry v Wolves

Home Win

Norwich V Manchester City

Away Win

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