Leamington couple launch social football betting app which moves away from 'harder stigmatist gambling'

A Leamington couple have launched a new football betting app which allows players to gamble 'risk-free' among their friends.

Matt and Tash Nunn's SoccerPots app combines their experience as "professional IT geeks" - who happen to love football.

Matt said the idea came from paper-based syndicates, which lots of people play either at home, at work or with football friends.

He said: "We used to have one at work.

"However, this had lots of drawbacks.

"The fixtures had to be found by hand, the sheet - along with everyone’s predictions - is always getting lost, the cash, sometimes up to £1,000, is locked away in somebody's desk draw and people who were not at work couldn’t always get their prediction down on the sheet.

"The process could take a full week to get everybody’s predictions in for the weekend.

"As well getting some decent pots going, it was exciting to see what your mates had put down for ‘their’ team or if someone managed to get them all wrong and really added to the office banter - especially when the pots grew.