Bet you don’t boast about the bets you lose.

As a gambling addict, I would support this campaign. Most compulsive gamblers will be able to track their early interest in gambling back to childhood. Having gambling advertising around children is just wrong in my opinion. Football is a sport for all, not just adults.

In my case, I don't think the shirt advertisements spark any gambling relapses, but they do make me aware of new places to gamble. I have set restrictions on most gambling sites but new sites are set up all the time and find their way onto football shirts etc.

I think a bigger problem is the amount of adverts on the TV when watching sport, especially the ones that flash up live odds.
They normalise it, kids think it's harmless fun, part of the football experience.
The next step walked from St James to the Riverside to highlight gambling sponsorship in football.
There's a petition if anyone's interested.
 
William Hill hit with a £19.2m fine after not carrying out checks at the time of account opening.
I actually encountered this myself at the height of my gambling addiction with this firm.

Circa 2016, I opened an account (under false email address + DOB) was able to fritter away £15k in a couple of days. I then actually went on an good run and managed to boost my account balance to over £25k. At this point I tried to withdraw the funds and William Hill at this point requested ID. As I did not have ID to match my details, they would not authorise the withdrawal. They did not suspend my account during this time, and while the dispute was ongoing, I managed to lose the full lot. Over a week or so. I was suicidal after this and it really hit my mental health for a long long time.

I see they considered suspending William Hills' license. That would have been a huge wake up call for all these gambling companies if that had happened.
 
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I see they considered suspending William Hills' license. That would have been a huge wake up call for all these gambling companies if that had happened.
This is just mental. Who has this sort of money to stake, let alone lose??


The reason the license wasn't suspended was because WH have recently been taken over by 888, or some guff.

There are loads of betting companies, some sponsoring top level football teams in the UK, who I've never heard of, and you don't see any other advertising from them. Maybe they are foreign betting companies, but it just shows the effectiveness of having their name or logo on the front of an English team's football shirt. It has to change.
 
This is just mental. Who has this sort of money to stake, let alone lose??


The reason the license wasn't suspended was because WH have recently been taken over by 888, or some guff.

There are loads of betting companies, some sponsoring top level football teams in the UK, who I've never heard of, and you don't see any other advertising from them. Maybe they are foreign betting companies, but it just shows the effectiveness of having their name or logo on the front of an English team's football shirt. It has to change.
The loser probably didn't have it to lose. I would hazard a guess that, he started off thinking he was going to gamble a much smaller amount than that. Lost control, tried to gamble himself out of trouble, lost that as well.

Stopped at £23,000 because either that was all his accessible cash gone (savings) or could not access any more credit. Short term loans are so easy to get these days even with bad credit. You can fill a form in on your phone and literally have £5k in your account within 20 mins. And that can be gambled even quicker than that. Repeat, repeat, repeat until the credit agency shut it down.
 
This is just mental. Who has this sort of money to stake, let alone lose??


The reason the license wasn't suspended was because WH have recently been taken over by 888, or some guff.

There are loads of betting companies, some sponsoring top level football teams in the UK, who I've never heard of, and you don't see any other advertising from them. Maybe they are foreign betting companies, but it just shows the effectiveness of having their name or logo on the front of an English team's football shirt. It has to change.
In the article I read on William Hills, it stated they are a parent company of smaller and less known betting companies - It must be some kind of a tax fiddle or some other financial incentive.

Regarding shirts, I agree it needs to stop but we (the fans) could stop it by not buying the club shirts, etc whilst they have betting logos on them. Can't see many wanting to do it though.
 
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