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chickendinner.co.uk is a free website that produces detailed background research on the big events of the day so that readers betting on them can make smarter decisions about how to deploy their money, and people discussing them can do so more knowledgeably.

chickendinner sends out a free daily email every Monday to Friday with valuable information on an event happening that day. The point? To help you pick a winner. To sign up for the Daily Wager click here

chickendinner also publishes popbet.com a site dedicated to betting on reality television events and thespoiler.co.uk, a sports gossip site perversely interested in the 'celebrification' of the Premier League.

chickendinner was founded in 2007 by its Editorial Director, Ed Needham and Managing Director, Andy Clerkson.

Ed Needham has worked in magazines since the mid-nineties, most recently in New York, where he was Editor-in-Chief of Maxim (2004-2006), the biggest men’s magazine in the US, with a circulation of 2.5 million. Prior to that he was Managing Editor of Rolling Stone (2002-2004), and before that he was the launch editor of the US version of FHM magazine (1999-2002). Before moving to the US in 1999, Ed was the editor of FHM in the UK, and achieved an unprecedented average monthly circulation of 750,000, which made it the most popular monthly magazine in Europe at the time. Ed won the magazine industry’s prestigious PPA Magazine Editor of the Year in 1998

Andy Clerkson is a 15-year veteran of Dennis Publishing in the UK and USA. He returned to the UK in 2007 after seven years in New York, most recently as editorial director of Dennis US which publishes Maxim, Blender and Stuff. Andy was General Manager (an American term for publisher) of Maxim magazine from 2002-2004 during which time the magazine established itself as the world's largest men's magazine and achieved unprecedented revenue growth. Prior to that, he was launch editor of Stuff magazine USA (1999-2001) and UK (1996-1999).

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