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    The Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has dismissed as “ridiculous” the government’s plans to investigate whether football club sponsorships with gambling companies are illegal.

    By David Bond - Telegraph.co.uk

    Sports Minister Richard Caborn has revealed that the Gambling Commission are to carry out a consultation in the new year to determine whether clubs who carry the logos of betting firms on their shirts are breaking the law.

    There are concerns that kit endorsement deals with internet gambling outfits such as Mansion, who sponsor Tottenham in a deal worth £34million, might encourage vulnerable children to bet.

    But Levy said: “I think it’s ridiculous. I have not received any complaints about us having Mansion on our shirts. This country freely advertises the lottery on TV and billboards. It’s no different.

    “We only carry their brand on our shirts, it’s not a website where you can go on it and bet. In the end, the issue they are talking about is in connection with children and to be honest with you I think it’s so tenuous.

    “Children don’t buy shirts, the parents buy the shirts and what about all the alcohol advertising you get on billboards? I just think it’s a nonsense.”

    Asked whether he would consider taking the Mansion logo off replica shirts sold to children aged under 16, Levy replied: “No. If anything I think you draw even more attention to it. What’s silly about this situation is where do you draw the line? Kids go on to sports websites and from there they can go on to betting sites. They can go anywhere on the web. You have betting shops on the High Street.

    “We will not ignore it but I have spoken to Mansion and they are not concerned about it at all.” In a statement Tottenham added that they would nevertheless be prepared to co-operate with the consultation process.

    “We understand the Premier League is being initially consulted on this and we shall liaise with them accordingly if required.”

    In addition to Spurs, Blackburn, Middlesbrough and Aston Villa have signed deals with online gaming companies. Under current laws it is illegal for gambling operators to target children with advertising and under the new Gambling Act, set to come into force next September, the punishments for doing so will become more severe.

    Caborn said yesterday: “There is a grey area at the moment and the inquiry is to see whether it should be allowed. There’s a difference between broadcasting and non-broadcasting advertising with regard to gambling. “The question is whether, given the coverage of Premiership football on television, such shirt sponsorship should be regarded as advertising on TV.”
    Geez, Dec 9, 2006
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Discussion in 'Spurscommunity Front Page News' started by Geez, Dec 9, 2006.

  1. GDG
    Political correctness gone mad.
    GDG, Dec 9, 2006
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  2. Yorkshireyiddo
    what a load of shit
    Yorkshireyiddo, Dec 9, 2006
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  3. littlemandefoe
    absolute bollacks
    littlemandefoe, Dec 9, 2006
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  4. davidmatzdorf
    It's interesting to have someone describe this as "political correctness", which is usually used to deride a left-wing piece of extreme fussiness. It's usually the right wing who are fanatically anti-gambling, particularly the Christian right.

    On line gambling is completely illegal in America, but of course it's impossible to police the internet, so the American Christian right are energetically trying to make international prosecutions and even extraditions stick in Europe, with even some success (an on line gambling mogul was foolish enough to set foot in America and was promptly arrested).

    This supposed investigation over here is hypocritical bullshit, of course. I'm generally in favour of legalising dangerous things like drugs and gambling, but not letting people advertise them, but as our Daniel says, you can't have beer ads all over the ground and then ban gambling ads.

    My cousin in America is a lawyer who specialises in internet law and he represents several on line gambling firms who are being attacked and restricted by the Americans. I even, by luck, ended up sitting in on a meeting with one of his clients when he was over here, so I heard quite a bit of detail of the legal issues involved (none of which I can repeat, sorry ... it would probably be boring anyway). I have e-mailed him the link to the Telegraph article and, if he has any interesting thoughts and lets me quote him, I'll post them here.



    P.S. I don't gamble at all, so I've got no particular brief for this issue. I just think it's a waste of public money and energy and it's severely hypocritical.
    davidmatzdorf, Dec 9, 2006
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  5. forestyid
    This is completely ridiculous, with the amount of advertising for the lottery that is on tele, they can't be upset with football clubs having the name of a gambling company on their shirts, but where does this end, will all website aimed at children have to vet all their ads? i'm sure that a fair few will have gambling sites as part of them. also where does this leave other sports, snooker for example, where many players are sponsored by 888.com amongst other gambling sites.
    and when thinking about it, i believe that most banks such as barclays try and sell you products to put you into debt, isnt this more of a problem as far as the british are concerned. is that sponsorship to be deemed illegal as well?

    this hole thing is complete rubbish, why dont the government actually do things that make a positive difference, not just the higher profile things that they believe will put them in the paper for a seemingly positive action!
    forestyid, Dec 9, 2006
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  6. Pharaoh
    Companies such as Sky, who have all the rights to premier League games and their website is a site that children visit regularly to get all their information, promotes gambling especially Skybet very heavily.
    Pharaoh, Dec 9, 2006
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  7. joey.leone
    laughable.

    as pharahh said, sky promote gambling lots, and during televised games they have those skybet adverts saying 'it matters more when there is money on it'. Kids will definantly be seeing that.
    joey.leone, Dec 9, 2006
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  8. tottenham4life
    what a load of shit, i think that is enough on the subject
    tottenham4life, Dec 9, 2006
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  9. somersetyiddo
    :beer:
    holsten

    LOOK KIDS BEER!

    shit i done some free advertising for beer how many alchys have i made its ridiculous from the twats that run this country
    somersetyiddo, Dec 10, 2006
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