This is one of the most eventful starts to a football season in years which makes predictions that much more volatile in the sports betting market. Look around for a selection of free bets offered by a website and pick a value of the free bets that your happy with and doesn't stretch you financially.

There's a couple of ways at looking at the strategy for making the most of football free bets, that is that you can go for broke with one bookmaker and take up their offer of a large value in free bets, say 200 pounds. The caution here is that you're committing your budget to one bookie and so narrowing yourself to their odds. They're bound to offer the range of sports betting options that you would expect but you really need as many options to choose from to get maximum return from your online betting strategy.

The better way to approach it with an example budget of 200 pounds would be to break it up into smaller free bets with a number of sports bookmakers. This obviously gives you the option to hop between the bookies is one is offering better odds than the other. Your football free bets can be taken advantage of with each bookmaker by opening your account with say a deposit of 25 GBP and if you did this to a budget of 200 quid you naturally have eight different bookmakers that you have accounts with and can monitor for the odds they offer for any particular outcome on a match.

Because you've taken advantage of the football free bets, you have now doubled your budget and actually doubled it. All you've done is deposit with the bookies and they have matched it before you've even made a stake! Not bad for doing nothing - yet.

It's precisely the type of event like Jose Mourinho leaving Chelsea that starts to give the season a bit more spice. Nobody saw it coming for certain and when it did, it puts one of the favourites for the premiership title much lower down in the bookmakers eyes.

This together with, say Rooneys' injury, all starts to rock the football betting world because things have been shifted from the norm. This also brings the volatility to the market and this benefits you if you like to bet in a less stable environment. It's not quite the case but more games get closer to an "anything can happen" state which in turn can improve your odds.

So the spread of your football free bets is a good idea to give you more choice and opportunity to place your football bets on a number of outcomes and also to give you the best chance of getting the best betting odds.

Don't forget though that the sports betting world, when it comes to football, offers betting on far more than just the outcome of a match. You can place bets on who will be the next manager of a team, highest scorer in a match, fastest goal scored in a season and so on but you can always use the free bets towards these punts as they form part of your online betting fund.