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> legal sports betting is a $155B market growing at 8% annually in the US Not only in the US. If I'm not mistaken all the Premier League clubs outside the top
by paganel 7y ago
> legal sports betting is a $155B market growing at 8% annually in the US
Not only in the US. If I'm not mistaken all the Premier League clubs outside the top 6 had betting companies as their main t-shirt logos last season, and we're talking about the most watched football league in the world (and definitely the one where the most money is involved). Things are pretty much the same wherever else you look in Europe. Betting has destroyed football (its corrupt officials helped in that, too, but that's a different story).
- hogFeast 7y agoNope. It is 11 of the Premier League so just over half. Football and betting is totally symbiotic. Betting is the reason the Premier League is the world's league. You can watch and bet on it everywhere. More money is bet on the EPL in Asia than in Europe. I think there is a problem with advertising but that isn't anything to do with the league (when the UK changed the rules on tobacco sponsorship it was a law, not a regulation of the league...and most of the issue isn't with shirt sponsorship). I get that lots of people live somewhere where betting is illegal and there is a connection with organised crime. That just doesn't exist in reality.