Betting on corners in the UK: ten licensed bookmakers and the markets they run
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Last verified: October 30, 2026 against the Gambling Commission’s public register and each operator’s own published terms.
A corner bet looks simple — more corners than the line, fewer corners than the line, first flag of the night. The wager is short, the rulebook is short, and the same market sits inside the same match at every shop. What makes it worth a closer look is the price. Every line on every corner market carries the bookmaker’s margin, and on a market where the totals are low and a goal can swing a count without anyone touching a flag, that margin does more work than the headline suggests. This page is the working of the bet — what a corner is on the field, what each market settles on, how odds are quoted in Great Britain and how the margin sits inside them — and a side-by-side of the ten Gambling Commission-licensed bookmakers that take corner business from British customers.
Corner markets in football: what a “corner” actually is
A corner kick in association football is awarded when the whole of the ball crosses the goal line, outside the goal frame, having last touched a defending player. The touch does not have to be deliberate — a deflection off a centre-back is enough. The kick is taken from the corner of the field nearer to the point where the ball crossed the line, with the ball stationary inside a quarter-circle of one yard at the corner flag. The corner flag itself must not be moved. The corner kick was added to the Football Association’s laws in 1872 by the Sheffield Association and was only formalised as a route to goal in 1924, when the IFAB legalised direct scoring from a flag — the so-called Olimpico goal. An own goal direct from a corner is still not allowed.
Three other field rules follow the kick, because corner markets settle on them. Opposing players must stay at least 9.15 metres from the ball until it is in play, and an attacker receiving the ball directly from a corner kick cannot be penalised for offside. That last clause is why an Olimpico goal is possible at all: without it, every corner would need a defender’s touch before the first shot counted. Markets treat a corner as awarded once it has been signalled by the referee, not once the kick is taken. If a referee blows for a foul, a handball or an offside against the attacking team before the ball is in play, the corner is cancelled and markets are usually voided.
Those few sentences of law govern the markets on this page. Anything a corner bet settles on — total corners, team totals, handicap, race to a flag, individual corner counts at set-piece pace — follows from what counts as a corner and what does not. A corner that does not take place because play was stopped is not a corner, and a corner given but retaken for encroachment still counts as one.
How British bookmakers price corners
British prices are quoted in fractional form (5/1, 11/4, evens) by tradition and in decimal form (6.00, 3.75, 2.00) by modern sites, with conversions a/b → a ÷ b + 1. Below, all odds are decimal unless a fraction is needed for the working.
What a price pays back is straightforward: a stake of £10 at decimal odds 3.75 returns £37.50 if it lands — £10 of stake returned and £27.50 of profit on top. A £10 accumulator of four legs at 3.75, 2.40, 1.91 and 1.62 multiplies to one price of about 27.79, so a winning £10 returns £277.90. A free bet whose stake is not returned works out to roughly free-bet amount × (odds − 1) ÷ odds × market payout share — a £10 free bet at 3.75 in a market with a 95% payout share is worth about £7.10, and that is what the offer is worth on average, never what it wins.
The harder figure on a corner market is the margin. A two-way over/under on corners around an even line — say over 9.5 corners at 1.90 and under 9.5 corners at 1.90 — gives a payout share of 1 ÷ (1/1.90 + 1/1.90) = 0.95, so the margin is 5%. Bookmakers quote corner markets closer to 7%–9% margin in practice, particularly on three-way lines and 1X2-style “which team wins the corner count” markets, and that is why a price that looks fair on the face of it can pay back less than expected over a season of small bets. As a rule, markets with more outcomes carry a wider margin, and corners — with three possible winners on a match-count market and a small target on totals — are not the friendliest margin on the book.
The point of running the numbers is not to find a “fair” price — there isn’t one — but to see where the bookmaker keeps its share. On a market priced at 1.90 / 1.90, it keeps about 5p of every £1 staked by the pair of backers. On a market at 1.85 / 1.85, it keeps about 8p. The lower the price, the higher the margin, and the harder the punt has to work to beat it. That is the cost of taking a corner market from a bookmaker, and it never goes away.
What sports a corner bet applies to
Corner betting is football-only as a market on British bookmakers. The kick is a product of the laws of association football, and no other sport settles a wager off “corners” in the technical sense. Boxing and mixed martial arts have “corners” — the red and blue stations for the coaches at ringside — and some bookmakers offer a “corners” prop in MMA on which camp scores a knock-down first, but it is a different use of the word and a different market. On this page, “corners” means football corners.
Within football, the market sits on every fixture the operator lists — Premier League, Championship, Scottish Premiership, the FA Cup and League Cup, UEFA club competitions (the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League), and international tournament football. Some books also run lower-division English football, the Welsh leagues on regional-focused operators, and women’s football where the fixture density justifies it. Operators without a full fixture list may still cover the headline leagues and leave the rest to the bigger houses. Whichever the case, the offering is whatever the operator’s own site says it is — markets are an operator’s commercial decision, not a regulator’s, and the Gambling Commission licences a category rather than a market.
Bet types on corners: singles, multiples, builders and the rest
A corner match bet is the simplest line: which team wins the corner count in a named match. Two or three outcomes — home, away, draw — depending on the rule. A total corners market is an over/under on the combined count for the match, in half-step lines such as over 8.5 / under 8.5, over 9.5 / under 9.5, over 10.5 / under 10.5. A team total is an over/under on one side only — Manchester City over 5.5 corners, for instance. A handicap is a corner-count line that takes one side off the count, the way a goal handicap does on the 1X2. A race to a corner settles on which side takes the first corner, with a tie option at bigger books.
Multi-corner bets are a single selection of which corner the wager settles at — the next corner, the second corner, the third — with prices climbing as the count grows. The line is unusual in football: the vast majority of settled corner bets are over/under or which-team counts, and the multi-corner product is a niche item on most sites.
A bet builder (also called a same-game multi or SGM) is a same-match accumulator: a slip with selections from one match — match result, total corners, both teams to score, a player to score or be carded, shots on target — all priced by the bookmaker’s own trader and rolled into one accumulator. Corners sit inside most builders, with the bettor free to pick sides and totals. An acca is the multi-match multiple: combine one corner market from each of three Saturday games, the prices multiply and the stake can settle on any of the matches as long as the others hold.
In-play corner markets are the same lines priced as the match unfolds. The book updates the line after every flag — the next corner market re-prices, the race to the next corner line shortens, the over/under moves with the count. The book in Britain offers in-play on most football and on most major sports, the exact depth of the market sitting in each operator’s own product.
Cash out settles a wager before the final whistle, at a price the book sets on the spot. A bet on over 9.5 corners cashes out for less if the count climbs to nine, more if the count is still at four with twenty minutes to play. The cash-out value is the book’s own mid-price at that minute, and a bookmaker that handles cash out well on corners typically handles it well across the rest of the in-play product.
Responsible gambling and the British licence
The Gambling Commission licenses the whole commercial market under the Gambling Act 2005, and its public register is the test of whether a brand holds a GB licence. A search by business name, trading name or domain returns a licence number, the categories the licence covers and the address of the licence holder. That register is the only authoritative answer to “is this bookmaker licensed in Great Britain”, and it is what this page’s ten-operator list has been checked against.
GAMSTOP is the national online self-exclusion scheme and a condition of every GB remote licence. A customer who registers with GAMSTOP is barred from every licensed site and app for at least the chosen period — six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal — and the exclusion stays in place for seven years after the minimum ends before the customer can ask for it to be lifted. The cover is online only; betting shops use a separate service.
The financial vulnerability check is a public-record screening that the Commission introduced in late 2024 on licensed remote betting for any customer whose deposits minus withdrawals cross £150 in a rolling 30 days. It is a search of public records — bankruptcies, county court judgments — not an income check. The wider financial risk assessments that the press calls “affordability checks” remain announced under a staged plan with no firm start date; they are not in force today, and the way to write that fact is “announced, staged, no start date”.
Identity verification runs before the first deposit, not at withdrawal. Every GB-licensed bookmaker checks name, address and date of birth before a customer can play — including with a free bet or bonus — and a refusal is a refusal at every licensed site inside the GAMSTOP network. The same rigour gives the sites their anti-money-laundering reach: at higher spend, a customer is asked about source of funds, and a refusal to answer closes the account. The Commission’s Know Your Customer regime is hard, and offshore bookmakers do not run one.
The 10x wagering cap on bonuses is in force: no wagering requirement on a bonus at a GB-licensed operator can exceed ten times the bonus amount. A £10 bonus at 50x is an offer at an offshore site. The mixed-product ban is in force: an offer that requires a customer to play on two or more product types — for example a sports bet that triggers free spins — cannot be marketed at a licensed bookmaker.
Help is widely available and free. GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline, GambleAware publishes guidance and funds treatment, the NHS has a network of gambling clinics, and Gamblers Anonymous runs meetings in most British cities.
In-play and on the whistle: live corners and cash out
A corner line priced before kick-off is a guess. A corner line priced in the seventieth minute at 0-0 with the book still settling is a different product: the price moves every time the referee runs to the corner flag, and the bettor’s job is to read the rush. Live corners are not a separate sport — they are the same markets the book prices pre-match, repriced on the same lines but a tighter margin.
Three patterns matter. The first is pressing time. A side that wins a flag in the final ten minutes is a side that is chasing the match, often in the air, often pushing the full-back high, and the trader can see this in the shot count as much as the corner count. A late pressing corner market on the chasing team at a short price is the book’s reaction — sometimes over-reaction. The second pattern is set-piece build-up. A side with three corners in the first fifteen minutes from wide free-kicks is a side whose wide men are winning, and the next-corner market adjusts sharply against them. The third pattern is the dead-clock window. Between minutes forty-five and fifty, a goal up makes one side passive and the other more urgent, and traders re-cut the next-corner market accordingly.
Cash out turns the in-play product into a personal balance sheet. An over 9.5 bet at 1.91 cashes out for a small profit at eight corners, a small loss at seven, a much larger profit at ten. The cash-out value is the book’s mid-price at the moment of the request, and a bookmaker that does in-play corners well handles cash out on them well. Some books offer partial cash out — close half the position and ride the other half to the whistle — and that is the same proposition applied to a fraction of the stake.
A limit to bear in mind: in-play markets are subject to the bookmaker’s suspension rules. A bet placed on over 10.5 in the eighty-ninth minute, accepted and confirmed, then checked against the final score is treated differently from a bet placed when the markets were suspended; rules vary by operator and are stated in each bookmaker’s own terms. Never assume a market was open to a price the screen showed.
Strategy and reading a corner count
Strategy on a corner market is not a system that wins — no system does — but a way of reading the line. The most reliable single reading on a corner total is the pressing ratio. A side that leads 2-0 with twenty minutes to play and has its full-back tucked inside the centre-back is conceding corners to its opponent; a side that trails by a goal and has the wide men pushing high is winning them. The count itself is less informative than the trend in the count, because the count absorbs the noise of a long throw, a deflection and a half-time reset.
A second reading is set-piece coach. A side whose set-piece routines take a long time, or whose kick taker looks for the penalty spot on a corner, is more likely to win the flag with the ball alive. A side whose corners are short and routine is more likely to recycle possession and lose the corner in the same move.
A third reading is the card pattern. A side whose discipline is poor — four bookings in an hour of football — is more likely to be drawn into a press, and the card is often the late-flag trigger. A side whose keeper is dominant in the air at the cost of corner concession is a side on which the over line has a soft floor.
A prediction method is what a tipster charges for — a forecast of which side wins the next corner — and no such method has a record worth taking to the bank. The “system” market on corners is large and the cleanest systems are market scans, not forecasts: compare two bookmakers’ prices on the same line, place the bet on the longer price, log every wager, and the difference in margin over a season is the reader’s edge. That is not a winning system. It is what clearing a margin does to a punt.
A bankroll rule that survives review: keep each wager a fixed percentage of bank — 1% to 3% per flag — and stop at the top of a losing streak, not at the bottom of a losing streak. A drawdown that takes 20% of a bank takes four weeks of standard work to repair, and the corner market is streaky. A reader who treats every Saturday as one bet rather than thirty puts the streak behind them.
Predictions, tips and what they actually cost
Free tips on corners are widely available — social-media tipsters, paid tipsters, bookmaker-hosted predictions pages — and the question worth asking is not whether they win but what they cost. A free tip that loses costs a stake and adds nothing. A paid tip that loses costs the tip fee and a stake. A paid tip that wins pays a proportion of the profit to the tipster; the line is “two-out-of-three winners” with a vague staking plan, and the result is a churn that produces fewer winners than the marketing suggests. The Gambling Commission does not regulate tipsters in Britain; the activity is not licensed.
A “model” that an article publishes is a different product: a set of inputs, a rule for joining the inputs, and an output the reader can back-test. A model with a documented edge on corners has a place in the literature — that literature is academic and the edge is measured in basis points, not in pounds. A model sold as a monthly subscription by a stranger on the social platforms has neither.
The safest reading is the matching-markets reading. Two bookmakers’ over 10.5 lines at 1.85 / 1.91 represent a 5% margin difference in favour of one of them — 1.91 is the longer price, the bettor takes that one, and the edge is on the price, not on the match. Repeat that routine on every Saturday and the difference in margin over a season is the reader’s edge.
A walkthrough: a Saturday £10 corner accumulator
Imagine a Saturday three-match acca: over 9.5 corners in Arsenal vs Manchester City at 1.91, over 7.5 corners in Liverpool vs Chelsea at 1.85, and over 8.5 corners in Aston Villa vs Newcastle at 1.80. Three prices multiply into one combined price of 1.91 × 1.85 × 1.80 = 6.36. A £10 stake returns £63.60 on a winning ticket — £53.60 of profit on top of the stake. One leg losing settles the bet as a loss of £10. Two legs losing is a loss of £10. All three winning is a pay-out of £63.60.
A corner market priced at 1.90 / 1.90 on a two-way line has a payout share of 0.95 and a margin of 5%. A market at 1.85 / 1.85 has a payout share of 0.93 and a margin of 8%. A market at 1.80 / 1.80 has a payout share of 0.90 and a margin of 10%. Three legs at 1.91, 1.85 and 1.80 carry margins of roughly 5%, 8% and 11% — the leg on the loosest line is the leg that costs the most to the bettor, and the routine the punter should follow is to chase the tightest legs into the acca, not the longest prices. A three-leg acca at 6.36 with the three tightest lines priced at 1.85 each is the same return for a longer price at one of them.
An each-way corner bet is unusual — most corner markets do not have a place element — and the routine is to pick the side, not the place. A free bet on a corner acca at 6.36 with no stake return has a working value of about £10 × (6.36 − 1) ÷ 6.36 × 0.95 = £8.00, that is what the offer is worth on average, not what it wins. A deposit-bonus carry requires turnover of bonus × 10 at minimum — see the wagering cap — and that turnover has a margin cost the bookmaker keeps.
The ten licensed UK bookmakers priced on corners
The list below ranks ten bookmakers for corner-market coverage, in the order set by research. Every brand on this list holds a remote general betting standard licence on the Gambling Commission’s register, and licence numbers are given so the reader can check for themselves. The slots cover the matters specified by the plan: brand, Gambling Commission licence number and licence holder, and what each operator’s own terms say on corner markets. A bare licence listing is not a recommendation; it is the floor.
| Brand | Licence | Holder | Corner-market position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dabble | 065677-R-340363-005 (account 65677) | Dabble Sports UK Ltd | Welcome offer is “Bet £10, Get £10 in Free Bets” on a first deposit for new customers, with minimum odds applying, a 7-day free bet expiry and the stake not returned. |
| Coral | 054743-R-330863-014 (account 54743) | LC International Limited | Sports welcome offer is “Get £40 in Free Bets when you bet £20”: a deposit and sports bet of £20 or more at minimum odds of 2.0 (1/1), with £40 in free bets issued within 7 days and expiring 7 days after issue, for new GB customers who opt in. |
| 10bet | 043173-R-322899-023 (account 43173) | Blue Star Planet Limited | Sportsbook covers football, tennis and horse racing, with Cash out, Bet Builder and Live Streaming. |
| Geoff Banks | 054095-R-330366-010 (account 54095) | GB Sports Advisors Limited | App offers live in-play prices and ante-post prices on future events. |
| Paddy Power | 039439-R-319330-013 (account 39439) | PPB Counterparty Services Limited | App offers Bet Builder+, Popular Bet Builders, Super Sub (a bet rolls over to the replacement if a selected player is substituted), expanded Win More markets and player and ACCA stats. |
| Bet Ahoy | 100094-R-341742-003 (account 100094) | Bet Ahoy Ltd | Welcome offer is “Bet £10 & Get £10 in Free Bets”, made up of a £5 sports bet and a £5 acca. |
| LiveScore Bet | 056859-R-332720-005 (account 56859) | LiveScore Betting and Gaming (Gibraltar) Limited | Bet Builder allows up to 10 selections and covers match result, both teams to score, corners, total goals, player scoring and card markets. |
| BetTom | 064959-R-339314-003 (account 64959) | Bet Tom Limited | Sports welcome offer is 50% back as a free bet of up to £50, with a matching 50% back up to £50 as free slot funds for casino play; full terms apply. |
| Betfred | 039544-R-319290-010 (account 39544) | Petfre (Gibraltar) Limited | App features Bet Builder, Sub Switch, Racing Post data, Extra Places, live casino and bingo. |
| DragonBet | 064908-R-339041-003 (account 64908) | DragonBet Ltd | App features Welsh football and rugby markets, racing, American football, in-play betting and bet builder markets. |
Licence numbers above can be checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register. Every licence on this list is for “remote general betting standard (real events)” — the category that covers wagering on real sporting fixtures, including corner markets. Every licence on this list resolves on the register, the holder is named correctly, and the activities listed cover real-event betting.
A column dropped from earlier drafts compared the precise number of corner markets each book carries on a flagship fixture, because that number ages within a season and across fixture context — a corner market count of “47” on Crystal Palace vs Liverpool is a number from one snapshot, not a property of the brand. The operating licences and the regulator’s product categories hold year to year; a headcount of markets does not.
Reading the column: what the operator’s own terms actually say
The “Corner-market position” column carries what the operators’ own published material states, not what the licence itself does. The two are different things: a licence is what a regulator says the operator can do; the published material is what the operator tells customers it does. Where the material is light, the cell is light — over 10 markets of the column would in that case read as though the operator had published ten things it had not.
On Dabble, the cell is the welcome-offer verb — the only statement the operator’s own material carries that concerns a market in the same product group as corners. A punt on a corners bet counts as a sports bet for the offer; a punt on a casino spin does not. The terms do not single out corners in either direction. Coral’s welcome-offer verb is similar: the offer is on a sports bet at minimum odds of 2.0, and corner markets settle at odds in that range and below — a stake on over 9.5 at 1.85 counts as a qualifying bet. 10bet names football, tennis and horse racing as the sportsbook’s centre of gravity and Cash out, Bet Builder and Live Streaming as the marquee features — that is the truth the company’s own product page publishes. Geoff Banks is built on the in-play product and the ante-post product, and that is what the app page names. Paddy Power is the shop that built the Super Sub mechanism for a selected player; the same product page covers Bet Builder+ and the Win More lineup.
Bet Ahoy runs a £5 + £5 free-bet welcome product, which is smaller than the £40 package at Coral. LiveScore Bet is the operator whose own published material names corners specifically: its Bet Builder covers match result, both teams to score, corners, total goals, player scoring and card markets, with up to 10 selections per builder. BetTom’s welcome is a 50% back mechanic, capped at £50, with a parallel casino product; the terms are explicit that the casino arm and the sports arm carry two separate offers. Betfred is the established name with a long racing product behind it and the Bet Builder and Sub Switch features on the app. DragonBet carries Welsh football and rugby as a regional specialism — a niche a national bookmaker does not service.
Verdicts on the ten, one for each
Dabble: a new-licence bookmaker (£10 free bet welcome) that is GAMSTOP-bound and Commission-licensed, and the welcome offer needs more than the headline demands — minimum-odds selection, 7-day expiry, no stake return. Punters with a long weekend to choose a market should read the offer terms as carefully as the corner line.
Coral: a long-established name with a £40 free-bet welcome that requires a £20 sports bet at minimum 1/1 — a qualifying line that is comfortably inside the range corner markets settle at — and the offer is straightforward to clear. The brand is licensed under the same holding company as several other big bookmakers, and the holding-company link is why Coral and a sister brand sometimes share infrastructure.
10bet: a bookmaker whose own published material leads with Cash out, Bet Builder and Live Streaming — three features corner punters use heavily. The £10 free-bet welcome (where one exists) is on standard terms. A reasonable choice for a Saturday full of in-play corners.
Geoff Banks: a niche bookmaker with a deep in-play product and ante-post product, and the licence is the usual GB licence. The punt is on the bookmaker’s price-list depth rather than a welcome offer. Worth a look for a reader who already trades other books and wants a fresh line.
Paddy Power: a big-name brand with a marketing-heavy product and a Super Sub feature that helps when the player one might have expected to win a corner is taken off at half-time. The licence covers the usual real-event betting category; the licence holder is the corporate parent.
Bet Ahoy: a smaller-scale welcome bookmaker — £5 + £5 free bets — that is licensed in Great Britain. The welcome is modest, the licence is solid, and the bigger brands nearby run deeper corner markets.
LiveScore Bet: the book on this list that names corners explicitly in its builder documentation. For a punt that wants a same-game multi with a corners leg combined with shots on target and cards, this is the right shortlist.
BetTom: a sports-and-casino pair with the 50% back mechanic on each — the kind of offer that pairs with smaller stakes. The site is licensed in Great Britain; the reader’s choice is whether the casino arm is part of the appeal.
Betfred: the high-street name with the racing-rooted product behind it and the Bet Builder and Sub Switch features on the modern app. A solid starting-book for a new punter who wants a wide market and a familiar brand.
DragonBet: a Welsh-focused bookmaker with the licence and a regional specialism. The football coverage is on the Welsh leagues, English Premier League and the headline European competitions, and the rugby market is on the Six Nations and the Welsh regional sides. An off-centre fit for a corner punter whose book is on English Premier and Champions League nights.
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Frequently asked questions
How is a corner bet placed?
A corner bet is a football wager on the number of corners taken, the team with the most corners, the next corner in the match, or a corner-derived leg of a same-game builder. The bettor opens the match on the operator’s site, picks a market, picks a selection, enters a stake and confirms. The selection is settled once the match ends — over/under on total corners, race to a corner, race to N corners, or a team total. Stakes at GB-licensed bookmakers are subject to GAMSTOP registration: a punt who has barred themselves through GAMSTOP cannot deposit or bet, and a site’s identity check is run before the first wager, including a free bet.
What is an Asian corner bet?
An Asian corner bet is a corner-count line that closes a push option out: a stake on over 10.0 corners gets half the stake back at exactly ten, and the rest pays or loses. The Asian line reduces the number of deadlocks in a market whose target is small and whose margin already eats into thin prices, but it makes the price harder to read for a casual punter. The Asian “line” naming also appears on handicaps and totals in other sports — Asian handicap on the 1X2 is the most common. On corners specifically, the market runs at GB bookmakers that offer the Asia-style product; smaller books quote over/under in half-step lines (8.5, 9.5, 10.5) only.
What is a corner match bet?
A corner match bet is a wager on which team wins the corner count in a named match — home, away, or, at three-way books, draw. Settling is a count of all corner kicks awarded in the match; a corner that is awarded and then retaken for encroachment still counts, and a corner that is given but un-taken because of a stoppage does not. The market is the simplest 1X2-style product on corners, and it carries a wider margin than the totals market because the line has three outcomes.
How can a bookmaker’s Gambling Commission licence be checked?
The Gambling Commission’s public register, on its website, accepts searches by business name, trading name, domain or account number. The licence appears with the licence holder’s name, the licence number, the licence category and the trading address. A bookmaker whose name or domain does not return a record is not licensed in Great Britain. The register is the only authoritative check; a brand’s own statement on its home page is not. Checking the register takes a few minutes and is the recommended first step before a customer deposits.
How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and odds?
Return = stake × odds. Profit = stake × (odds − 1). For a £10 stake at decimal odds 3.75, the return is £37.50 and the profit is £27.50. A combination bet’s odds are the product of the leg odds — three legs at 3.75, 2.40 and 1.62 multiply into one price of 27.79. The figure above is the payout, not the probability of landing, and a higher price does not mean a higher chance of winning — it means a larger pay-out if the bet wins.
What is a bookmaker’s margin and how does it show in the odds?
The margin is the share of every unit staked on a market that the bookmaker keeps on average, and it is the inverse of the payout share. For a two-way line at 1.90 / 1.90, the payout share is 0.95 and the margin is 5%; for a line at 1.85 / 1.85, the payout share is 0.93 and the margin is 8%. The wider the market — three outcomes, half-point lines, late in-play spreads — the larger the margin. A reader who compares two bookmakers’ corners lines is comparing margins, and a longer price on the same line is a lower margin on that line.
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