The football pools, once the UK's most popular way of betting on football has branched out into online games with some excellent offers to entice back the masses.

The Football Pools Offer

"New customers who deposit and spend £25 will receive a £25 Free Bet"

"The £25 free bet is not withdrawable and must be used on football pools only"

The Method (Low Risk)

First of all, click here to go to the Football Pools website, sign up and drop in the £25.

To get started we now need to wager the £25 deposit in the most low-risk way, in order to get the £25 free bet. The terms stipulate that:

"to qualify for the £25 Welcome Bonus credit, you must spend at least £25 on footballpools.com on any pools, lotteries or instant win games. Excluding the following games – Blackjack, Mini Blackjack, Top Trumps (all games) or Jackpot Slot games and all Roulette games."

OK, so that rules out our option of placing low risk bets on roulette or blackjack but we have one more low risk option worth considering, Deal or No Deal. Stay with me...!

The way to do this is to:

1. Once you have deposited click on Instant Win at the top then TV on the left hand menu. Open Deal or No Deal (not the slots version).
   
   
2. Set your stake to £1 (or 50p)
   
   
   
   
3. Pick your "Lucky Box" and then pick 6 boxes to open (or press Quick Pick)
   
   
   
   
4. The banker will then call to make you an offer.
   
   
   
   
5. Accept the offer, no matter what it is!
   
   
6. Repeat steps 2-5 until you have bet £25 in total (25 times if £1 stake or 50 time if 50p stake)

The bankers first offer will either be very slightly higher than your £1 stake or very slightly lower so that after completing all 25 games, your balance should still be around £25.

You will then be credited with the £25 bonus!

You can use this bonus by going to the Footbal Pools section and predicting the winner of some of this weekend's premiership ties on any of their Pools games. Prizes range anywhere from £5 to £3 000 000 depending on the results, not to mention the £10k prize draw and multitude of offers for existing customers that will come your way!