Sanitised English football

I kid I work with who's 25 goes to pub with his mates on a Saturday afternoon.
I asked what they do in the pub and he said they all sit there staring at their phones on betting websites.

 

It's a depressing trend about the way the world is going.

 

At least they have that as an excuse, sit in the west stand and you hear the same thing for pensioners that have been watching the game for 50+ years, they should know better.

 

Weird

 

That's kids these days. I've long thought the over saturation of gambling in sports needs to be reigned in.

 

Can't agree with that Syd. I do pretty well out of gambling. It does take a long time to learn how to stay in profit, unless you're lucky, you'll get your fingers burnt for a few years.

I don't have the balls to get really serious about it and because of that I've missed out on a fair few big hits.

There was a horse a few months ago, I seriously thought had to fall (in a flat race) to not win.

It won by ten lengths at a canter and I had £50 on it at 5-1. I didn't doubt the horse, I doubted myself and I'm actually glad I'm like that, because there are too many variables in sport.

 

You can't agree that people that don't do well out of gambling shouldn't be exposed to so much advertising? It's the same as alcohol and smoking. If people want to do it it's there but the over promotion of it is harmful to society.

 

I'm not against gambling , that would be pretty hypocritical , but when you can do it from your phone wherever you are
then it seems like it's too easy to get in trouble with it these days

 

I'm going to digress a bit. Advertising, it doesn't affect what I do in slightest. I know there must be something in it, it's a massive multi billion £ industry, but it just doesn't work on me. I have a very sceptical nature. So much so that I can't even fathom why someone would see an advert and think, ooh yes, I want that.

You sound the same as me I think. You're against gambling, but when you see gambling companies advertising, do you get sucked in? No of course you don't.

Gambling works for me, but it's not for everyone.

 

I guess my point is that advertising shouldn't be based on what affects Kempton, but on what is clearly affecting a large portion of today's young men.

I'm not against gambling, I gamble quite a bit, but as you say, it's not the advertising that does it for me. I do think that a lot less people would gamble, or gamble as readily as they do, if advertising was toned down.

 

Oh I don't know Syd, maybe. I'm just being selfish I suppose, I'm purely talking about my own experience.

 

When I lived in the UK, I backed horses now and again and mostly did OK in a modest way. I also used to do Vernon or Littlewoods pools. I never won big but again, I was slightly ahead overall. Of late there has been a proliferation of Casinos in our province but I have no desire to go and gamble nor any desire to visit online betting sites. As to young people with faces in their phones, its ubiquitous: mothers pushing their kids stroller with one hand and texting with the other. I'm tempted to suggest they try talking to the child.

Apparently, some companies have had to resort to teaching young employees how to communicate with customers, suppliers and coworkers using the telephone and in person. It's mind boggling and a bit scary.

 

Haha I know mate, I guess I'm just suggesting that just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for the masses, and the fact is that more and more young men are gambling more and more of their money. Some might do ok, some don't, and the saturation of gambling in sport is not helping.

 

I don't mind gambling at all...they just sound like boring ****ers to go for a pint with!

 

More inclined to legislate against commentating loudly and technically while watching football.