Peter Shilton Slams EFL Gambling Deal That Sees Clubs Use Fans Losses

England legend Peter Shilton has condemned the EFL gambling deal which saw clubs make profits from their own fans' gambling losses, as Forest Green Rovers owner Dale Vince called on football to kick its gambling habit for good.

Vodafone could be attractive to a US buyer, the source added. 'Darktrace has been battered since it went public, so it would make sense, and Vodafone could happen at some point. Though Vodafone is very big and very political - it would be a US buyer coming in, if anybody did.' 

The marketing tactics employed by some brands around the convention were comically unscrupulous. An anti-NFT protest broke out in New York, with people waving signs like "God hates NFTs." It got plenty of play on social media, but ended up being a marketing stunt to promote an NFT collection. 

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There's a flagrant ignorance to how this space even works. Speakers who have never owned NFTs expect us to see them as "experts", paid celebrities grift off our communities, and we're the ones paying the price.

‘I know the clubs are desperate for money but they seem to find it for astronomical wages.
It's about value and football needs to look at itself. Gambling ruins lies there is one suicide a day men and women people getting addicted.' A Public Health England report from September 2021 cited 409 suicides a year linked to gambling addiction.

There is no sign of who runs the Wine Time Facebook page — a site that, despite having been in operation for eight years and boasting a monthly organic (that is, not via ads) reach of 28 million viewers, had yet to complete Facebook's 'verification process' when I came across it this summer.
Curious, I emailed the address provided on the page to ask who had set it up, but received no reply. When I contacted the page via Facebook messenger, nobody responded — my messages don't even show up as 'read'.

Despite the recent market turmoil, businesses in industry from energy to film-making are backing Britain. Keeping corporation tax rates at 19 per cent - as Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has done by scrapping a rise to 25 per cent planned by his predecessor Rishi Sunak - will unleash more than £5billion of additional investment, Pkv games according to think-tank the Adam Smith Institute. 

He added: 'Private equity may struggle to raise finance. This is why we believe we will also see a potential wave of corporate mergers and acquisitions. UK valuations were very attractive even before the dramatic fall in sterling.' 

So this scheme seems quite egregious but I'm not sure it's any different to taking the corporate shilling of a gambling company and sticking their brand in front of their fans to encourage loss-making activity.

‘We think that football can live without gambling money in the way that Formula One lives without tobacco money. Back in the day Formula One thought they couldn't live without tobacco sponsorship.
They said it would kill the sport but it didn't. It's a thriving sport. I've heard the sum [total of gambling's value to the EFL] is £60m. We could replace that if we chose to or were forced.'

However, that isn't enough for Dale Vince, green energy entrepreneur and owner of League One Forest Green Rovers, whose club work with The Big Step, a charity set up by bereaved families campaigning to end gambling advertising in football.

It turns out Jenkins has two owners, two childhood friends who go by VJ and Safa. One of the party's attendees explained this to me, and added that only Safa was at the party. Unfortunately, since Safa goes by a pseudonym -- Safa is short for See Ape Follow Ape -- the helpful stranger didn't actually know what he looked like. Neither did any of the other attendees I asked. 

Another has a picture of two women drinking with the words, 'Friends bring happiness to your life . . . best friends bring alcohol.' Others explicitly endorse binge drinking. Take this imaginary conversation captioned on a picture of two female friends. 'Bestie: We met for coffee, how did we end up blacking out?!

Annie Ashton, whose husband Luke took his own life after struggling with a gambling addiction which started through football, wrote in The Guardian last week: ‘It's almost unbelievable: clubs are encouraging their own fans to gamble and then the same clubs cash in when they lose.

Blue chip firms including gambling group Entain, packaging company DS Smith and telecoms behemoths BT and Vodafone are all now vulnerable to foreign corporate raiders, according to experts at broker Canaccord Genuity.