Declan Fairhurst — Football analyst

Declan writes the football pages: the five big European leagues, the Champions League and Europa League, international football and the match previews. Every prediction starts from the table, the fixture list and confirmed team news.

Written by: Declan FairhurstChecked by: Maren HoltUpdated: 5 October 2026

Declan Fairhurst writes this site's football coverage. Football is the sport most people bet on and the one where the market is sharpest, so his pages spend less time telling you who will win and more time explaining what the price already assumes, and where a team's real situation differs from it.

What Declan covers

League rounds. The Premier League, LaLiga, Serie A, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, round by round, with a short list of fixtures worth a closer look.
European nights. The Champions League and Europa League league phase, where rotation and travel change prices more than form does.
Match previews. One page per big match, with the table, form, head-to-head record and confirmed absences.
International football. The windows, the Nations League and the qualifiers, where squads change between matches and the data is thinner.

How Declan works

Declan's order of work is always the same. The table and the fixture list come first, because they set what each side needs from a match. Then the confirmed team news, taken from the clubs or from reporters who name their source, never from a rumour account. Only then the markets: the result, both teams to score, the goal line and the handicap. His picks name one main selection and one alternative, and every price he quotes is labelled as our estimate. When a match has been played, the preview is updated with the result rather than quietly deleted.

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Reading Declan Fairhurst's picks

A Declan Fairhurst preview names a main selection and a back-up, says what would make him wrong, and puts an estimated fair price next to each. Compare that estimate with the price your sportsbook offers: if the offer is shorter, the pick has no value at that price, however confident the reasoning sounds. Declan Fairhurst also notes when a market has already moved on team news, because the value often disappears before kick-off.

Pages Declan wrote

Before a football page is published, Maren Holt checks every date and score against its source. Declan's portrait here is an illustration; the team page lists the other writers.

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Are Declan's football predictions tips?

They are reasoned picks with the reasons shown. Each names a main selection and an alternative, explains why, and labels the price as our estimate. No pick is a certainty.

Where does the team news come from?

From the clubs' own announcements and from reporters who name their source, with the date the news was published.

Does Declan update a preview after the match?

Yes. The result is added to the preview, so you can see how each pick turned out.

Where this comes from

Pages written by Declan Fairhurst, with the events and dates each coversthis site's page records; sources listed on each linked page2026-10-06

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