Football and Betting

[Snake Plissken]

Big fuck off flashing banners zipping around the perimeter of the ground and every other advert on the telly before, during and after a game are far more obvious and enticing.

As an aside, I’d love to meet whoever worked out that you could produce a double height flashing advert by placing 2 normal LED boards in just the right position and shake them warmly by the throat.

But then who gives a fuck about the fans in the stadium any more?

[Botswana Meat Commission]

Pretty much, yes.

Well, to put it mildly, what the fuck is the point of this announcement, then?

[ursus arctos]

To pre-empt legislation that would actually cost them money

[Antepli Ejderha]

Russell Martin: Swansea head coach reveals gambling pain - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65282283

Very brave of him to come out and share this.

[Patrick Thistle]

Anyone know what the energy expenditure on those flashing LED ad boards are?

[Cousin Boneless]

Our chairman has said in a recent fans forum that our Boylesports deal is ending and we will not have a gambling sponsorship next season.

[ursus arctos]

I'm watching Cadiz host Ossasuna and note that the pitch side hoardings have repeatedly appeared in both Russian and Chinese, each time promoting a betting firm unknown to me.

There doesn't seem to be a Russisn word for "cash back", so that phrase is in English.

[Discordant Resonance]

People will inevitably gamble, so preferable that the revenue arising would be shared equitably among the sports that generate it, rather than solely propping up horse and greyhound racing.

[Lang Spoon]

Does the subsidy to the vile greyhound industry also include the utterly evil hare coursing bastards?

[Discordant Resonance]

AFAIK, they're both separate organisations, and Greyhound Racing Ireland purely runs the various indoor tracks.

[seand]

This is really interesting and long, long overdue. The state subsidisation of the gambling/racing industry is disgusting. If they are going to redistribute some of the ill-gotten gains really it should all be going to healthy grassroots sports, but failing than it's about time that soccer asked for its share of the pie

[seand]

Brilliant Twitter thread on the insanity of the current regime
https://twitter.com/McDonnellDan/sta...549801985?s=19

[Botswana Meat Commission]

I see that some people are once bitten, twice stupid as Stocks FC goes “live” today. Think Football Index but this time with cryptocurrency involved, too.

I am no expert on the financial side of things and the betting industries allowed terms and wordings but it echoes the Football Index shitshow near identically.

[jefe]

Do English stadia generally have a place you can place bets inside the ground itself? I ask because DC United built a sportsbook into part of the space underneath one of their stands this year.

[Botswana Meat Commission]

Do English stadia generally have a place you can place bets inside the ground itself? I ask because DC United built a sportsbook into part of the space underneath one of their stands this year.

Many of the bigger grounds of clubs in the top two leagues, sometimes the third depending on who, have betting kiosks within the stadiums.

[Lang Spoon]

That's just vile.

[Snake Plissken]

I’ve not seen any open in ours for a couple of seasons now. The Etihad the other month had advertising but no one actually taking bets.

[ursus arctos]

One of the several insane aspects of the recent NFL suspensions was that two guys were suspended for half a season making bets on college basketball while in the club's practice facility, while the club simultaneously promotes "official gaming partners" and hosts a sports book in its stadium.

[ursus arctos]

Gaming officials are investigating 41 student-athletes at both Iowa and Iowa State universities on allegations of prohibited online sports wagering, the athletic departments announced Monday afternoon.

Iowa has 26 student-athletes from five sports under investigation, while Iowa State has 15 student-athletes from three sports. Iowa athletics has retained outside counsel.

Mere days after the University of Alabama summarily fired its baseball coach for trying to cash in on inside information in a sports book in Cincinnati

[Snake Plissken]

I’ve not seen any open in ours for a couple of seasons now. The Etihad the other month had advertising but no one actually taking bets.

It occurs to me - because I am very slow on such matters - that those betting stations stopped being having real people working in them at the exact same time we started taking advertising from those white label betting companies that are absolutely, definitely, not just Isle of Man based dodges on Far East gambling laws. Even though they have said companies advertising on them.

[My Name Is Ian]

I managed the betting booth in the away end at Vicarage Road for the 1999/2000 season, when they were in the Premier League. We had no line to head office, so could only take long list football bets with pre-printed prices on them. They closed five minutes before kick off and we didn't do hardly any business (we didn't keep much cash, so paying out anything was a ballache which involved phone calls to the regional manager to see if the cash to pay out a winning bet could be scrabbled together from somewhere), so in true late 1990s betting shop fashion we'd usually cash up half an hour early, then lock up bang on time to go and watch the matches. I was half-expecting for the booth to tipped over sideways and/or set on fire with me inside it every other game, but we had no grief all season.

[Sunderporinostesta]

In hospitality at Sunderland a long list was in the bundle of paper work left at every seat last time I was there. Others were season ticket application forms, hospitality package guides, that days charity donation envelope, player of the match voting forms, drinks menu etc.

I put a bet on once and actually won. After I went to claim my winnings the booth was empty. I ended up taking my winning slip into a bookies in Covent Garden 275 miles away a few days later. As soon as the slip was scanned the kid asked me where I’d put it on. When told he said you’re supposed to claim from there. I mentioned it’d been shut at full time so he had to make two phone calls to head office to get permission to pay out my win of £25ish quid. I’ll not be doing that in a stadium again.

[My Name Is Ian]

Pssssh. That dude was full of it. If you have the cash available to pay, you pay. The way we used to do it, if everything was locked up you'd just take the money from the petty cash and stick the slip in that and it would be counted and processed the next day. But then IME most shops were forever staffed by people who made up rules on the spot because it would their lives five per cent easier.

I was always amazed at how lax the security was in those places and how easy it would be to defraud them if you worked there and chose to, as well.

[cantagalo]

There's a big betting scandal brewing in Brazil.

Sixteen Série A and B players have been accused of accepting bribes to receive yellow and red cards, concede penalties, corners, throw-ins etc. It is thought that the number of players involved may be many more than sixteen.

The most striking case is that of Santos centre-back Eduardo Bauermann. He allegedly received $R50,000 (about £8,000) to receive a red card in a Série A game against Botafogo last year. Hard as he tried, he didn't manage it within the 90 minutes, only succeeding in getting dismissed after the final whistle - which, it turned out, didn't count for betting purposes. WhatsApp messages have been recovered showing the gangsters demanding from Bauermann the return of the $R1,000,000 they had bet on the outcome. Salaries at Santos aren't so high that Bauermann could lay his hands on that sort of money and he and his family have received implied death threats.

Operation 'Penalidade Maxima' continues with more players likely to be indicted. There have been calls for this year's Brasileirão to be suspended.

[Nesta]

Distressing story, but bleakly comic, the way it implies that the Brasileirão is so violent you literally can't get sent off if your life depends on it.