onthegreen":15aqgep8 said:
X Isle":15aqgep8 said:
No. Betting is a mugs game and whilst i'm not a mug, so it wouldn't influence me, I'm getting a bit sick of betting becoming ubiquitous in football.
I see the malignant infiltration of betting companies into football going the same way as the insidious influence TV has come to have. Football is not about TV and betting, it is sooo much more. I wouldn't want football to go the way of horse racing, a 'sport' that seems to be there solely for TV and to support the betting industry.
I love Ginsters as a sponsor, a perfect synergie with our identity. If we switched to a global online betting site what would it say of our identity... just another mercenary sell-out with it's hands in the grubby trough of the gambling world.
No ta :wave:
This for me! I have never met anyone yet addicted to a Ginsters pasty, but I have met many who became addicted to gambling. Sky sport etc is totally addicted to promoting gambling, knowing full well it will encourage some to have a flutter. Ok the majority will be responsible , but a percentage will get hooked.
I have sat with families, whose kids have no food because the family income has been gambled away. Would I buy a shirt, yes and I would burn it outside of the directors entrance.
Mentioning 'getting hooked' reminds me quite how far things have come from how betting was regarded not so very long ago, It's a 180 degree mindset change and I don't think it's for the better.
When daughter #1 was a new born to kill a bit of time while her mum was shopping I went with her in her pram to fill out one of those weekend football sheets, something I did very occasionally at the time as a bit of fun, to try and pick six home wins.
As well as being unable to advertise by law bookies had to have completely blocked windows (so no-one could see the evil within). As I entered the door, naively as it transpired, the look on the staff's faces was like I had walked in with a sawn off shotgun and a balaclava... "No children" they screamed.
She was ushered out straight away and a female member of staff offered to sit with her outside while I made my bet.
My daughter was a matter of months old, how in the name of all that is holy could she possibly have been influenced to commence a gambling addiction?
She didn't become a gambling addict and that mindset regarding betting at the time was clearly at the puritanical end of the nutty spectrum. Move forward 25 years and she's getting married next month. Any subsequent grandchildren that result will now, by contrast as they grow up, be utterly bombarded with betting adverts through TV, social media, in app adverts and billboards.
The pendulum has swung sooo far the other way it has become just as ridiculous... but waaay more dangerous.