Tag Archive: UK gambling industry

Once upon a time, in order to place any bets in the UK, you had to go to the high street betting shop or into a casino. Fast forward a couple of decades, and now you can simply go online to a sportsbook or casino and enjoy yourself whilst sitting at home on your sofa. This is thanks to the introduction of mobile gambling. Now with the advent of the blockchain, and VR and VR, we are going to e taking another giant leap forward into new and exciting methods of gambling and playing casino games.

It's true that Azeem Rafit suffered horrible racism whilst playing at Yorkshire. And this is absolutely unacceptable. Unfortunately, after the PCA had to suffer their worse public grilling in front of a select committee, some personal negative news appeared to leak out about Rafiq. Apparently, it was that the PCA was disappointed with the ex-player. After all, hadn't they helped him when he had a serious gambling problem? To the point of clearing his gambling debts and giving him counselling.

Thanks to advances in both mobile and internet technologies, we have seen a massive increase in the number of UK gamblers visiting online casinos. As a result, successive governments have introduced new regulations and rules. Many of these are tied to the strict licencing requirements for online operators. These are designed to help problem gamblers, whilst at the same time still allowing the gambling industry to flourish. Also to ensure that online players are safe from scammers and hackers.

The UK premier League have got both fat and complacent after years of receiving easy money from the betting industry. And now the UK government is under pressure to really act over the rising number of problem gamblers. After looking through the Gambling Act of 2004, they have decided to implement a plan which will ban sponsorship from the front of players football shirts. As you can imagine the UK Premiership just had kittens at the thought of all that lovely sponsorship mullah disappearing.