British Pools
Several different companies including Littlewoods, Vernons, Zetters and Brittens have, in the past, organised similar games, the most famous of which was historically known as Treble Chance. Competitors were given a list of football matches set to take place over the coming week, and attempted to pick a line of eight of them whose results would be worth most points by the scoring scheme, traditionally by crossing specific boxes on a printed coupon. A proportion of the players' combined entry fees was distributed among the competitors whose entries were worth the highest scores.
In 2007, Littlewoods, Vernons, Zetters companies came together to form The New Football Pools, now known as The Football Pools. The new company provides classic football pools games alongside other pools variants with coupons containing a smaller number of football matches. These games are all offered on-line.
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