Does ‘Piegate’ show that Football has a gambling problem?
Who knew that a non-league footballer eating a pie on live TV would catapult British football into a crisis about its relationship with betting brands?
It certainly is a funny old game. But ‘piegate’ does raise some serious questions that I’ve been asking myself for some time – mainly, isn’t it time that football reduced its dependence on money from the gambling companies?
The problem has been building since 2005, when the Gambling Act allowed betting brands on television. Since then, the number of betting sponsors has steadily increased to the point that this season 10 of the 20 shirt sponsors in Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
