Yeah it's mostly odds. With soccer being our main sport there's little or no room for spread betting - scores are too low. I guess it could work for rugby but as far as I know they're just regular odds still. A favoured way of betting on a soccer game here is by choosing a winner and first goal scorer with the odds accumulated.

Or another favoured betting method, like our straight up game, pick winners and their odds are accumulated. Pick up an accumulater sheet from your bookies (it'll have all the league games, maybe 40 approx) and you can choose as little or many winners as you like. I assume you can do that in the US too with the NFL?