Monday, September 27, 2004

The Rise and Rise of Football Betting

Addicts may seek bigger fix

An excellent but cautionary tale of the ever-increasing popularity of football betting by ex-Millwall and Chelsea player, Tony Cascarino

In the Times Online, Cascarino writes that betting on football could be up at least 250% in the UK - perhaps 1000% globally - spurred on by its fascination by Asian big-hitters.

Bets of £100,000 - £1 million are not uncommon anymore as football has taken over from horses as the sport to bet on.

Why? As Cascarino correctly points out - simply because on football, there are only 3 results - home win, away win (ie Lose) or draw. None of those 16 horse handicaps, no chance of jockeys pulling up before the line, no possilbility of the horse going lame to spoil the bet.

Whilst Cascarino falls into the current media hyperbole of calling us a 'nation of gamblers' - we're not that bad yet. But the concept of just having a fiver on your favourite team down the pub has grown up considerably with the advent of easier access to betting and of course, better bragging rights if you win

posted by jo @ 10:28 PM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 5:40 AM, Gamblog UK said...

Time to go a searching for some million pound a game gamblers...

Heheh..

Nice post. I am biased toward football though.

 

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