Still gambling with our future
Still gambling with our future
11 Mar 2021
docteur es sport
Every generation remembers their football team’s kit from their childhood – was the Newcastle United you remember sponsored by Northern Rock? Virgin? NTL? For children these days, however, the team they watch weekly is emblazoned with ‘Fun88’, a betting company. And the chances are the team they are playing against is also sponsored by a gambling firm.
Over half of the teams in the top two tiers of English football have gambling sponsors on their kit.
1 Columnist Owen Jones reported that a four-year-old boy was so influenced by this phenomenon that he named his teddy bear ‘Betway’ –the shirt sponsor for West Ham.