People seem to wonder why the premier League is the wealthiest in the world and how even relegation clubs get more revenue than other leagues winners. It’s mostly broadcasting revenue.
Where does broadcasting revenue come from? Broadcasters. Where do broadcasters make their money from? Ads. I don’t live in the UK but sail the high seas and I’m shocked at the number of ads before, during and after the matches on Sky. Not even counting all the side frames during the halftime talk and during the games showing me a plethora of odds. It’s abnormal and unheard of in Asia and the middle east (starsports India or BEIN middle east channels).
Sky, who own Skybet and get money from bet365 and other betting sides are the lifeblood of the premier League. They control a chunk of the media. If you attempt to stop gambling sites from promoting themselves the way they are doing so now, things crash very quickly and the premier League no longer can afford all the players and salaries they can now. And it’s a rigged process. It’s obvious they don’t want these persons on their shows.
For the record Broadcasters who have premier league rights get the vast majority of their revenues from subscriptions, not from ads. It’s a significant amount of money from the gambling companies but it is not their main source of income.
Should check to see if he sue them, fucking scummy behaviour if true.
should be noted that most advertisers routinely do this in anything they’re involved in
People often say to me that it’s great players can now open up about their struggles.
Can they really? I certainly wouldn’t encourage it
I’d honestly say the exact same about mental health. When a player opens up everybody will praise them for their bravery and honesty in the moment.
But the minute a discussion about something like being captain/crucial penalties comes up you can guarantee they’ll be a lot of people questioning wether they’re mentally strong enough.
I feel comparing the mentality to take a penalty vs mental health is weird
People laughed about Paul Mcgrath saying he’s won MOTM whilst drunk and he’s talking about it deadly serious about what a serious issue he had.
He was suicidal and played games with bandages on his wrists from slitting them.
That is mental health in general. A company will often hire a person with mental health problems to be seen as inclusive but as soon as they realise that PTSD and BPD are not some random letters but genuine diagnoseses that greatly affect their new emplyee they want nothing to with you :/
You can also say the same about any support for equality. Look at Hendo, shit that he went to Saudi which somewhat goes against his support, but at least he came out and talked about stuff in the first place, it doesn’t remove the fact that he supports lgbtq+ equality, isn’t homophobic, and is inclusive. There’s countless high profile players who have never made a statement either way on lgbtq+ equality etc and could just be homophobic, they don’t get jumped on for going to Saudi though. I’d rather have people speaking in the first place and for that reason I’ll always defend Hendo (somewhat, the way he’s dealt with it has been a bit shit).
But to get to the point no young players going to look at this and think, yeah it’s really worth speaking up for what I believe in, incase it goes south. And that’s all because of how everyone has treated Jordan.
More importantly, he spoke about gambling subtraction.
Gambling companies are parasites. They have a long history of trying to enticing people into betting, even giving them incentives with physical goods and extra free bets despite being fully aware they’re an addict.
Basketball is my favorite sport, and one day I was watching a game, when I saw a Fanduel commercial that said people who placed a bet could get 3 months of league pass after placing their first bet or something along those lines. I was honestly tempted to do it just because having league pass would beat the hassle of always needing to find a stream, but it hit me while I was watching that that is EXACTLY how people become problem gamblers. They entice you with something that you want outside of gambling, and once you start, you can’t stop. It’s been getting worse and worse, and it seems like it’s here to stay; NBA players can even invest in betting companies, it’s pushed in every single commercial, and it’s inescapable regardless of sport, Football, Basketball, American Football, etc. Gambling is super predatory, and I don’t trust it at all.
I always rail against betting. I fucking hate it.
I have a mate who is always trying to get me to “just sign up” cuz this app is giving a free $50 bet and he’ll get a kickback for my registration, and he’ll just give that to me if I want. Or this app does this, etc etc. He’s not losing his home over his betting, he does small prop bets and shit and cashes out when he’s ahead, but it’s still fucking annoying, and clearly a minor addiction for him.
Back during covid with nothing to do, I was betting more than usual, nothing crazy but far more active than I’d been in years. 365 sent me a message in site about my activity basically a check in to make sure I know the warning signs of addiction as I was on the site quite a bit.
Less than 30 seconds after that message they gave me a £5 free bet so I could continue gambling…
just pure extraction, has no tangible benefit to anyone apart from the bookies
If it’s that TalkTV show with a bunch of betting sponsors, why would Caulker want to work there in the first place? Not trying to victim-blame, but aren’t you practically working with these betting companies if you take up the job?
Bet365 are vile fucking parasites. Provide fucking nothing to the world whilst profiting of people’s abject misery. The amount of money the company makes is obscene.
I’m not necessarily all in for ‘treat gambling addiction like a drug addiction’, but the relentless betting advertising that’s just absolutely everywhere exacerbates problems people may already have. It’s disgusting.
I’m not necessarily all in for ‘treat gambling addiction like a drug addiction’
Agreed. Drug addiction can at least be cured.
That is genuinely disgusting.
The way he says he ‘finally’ landed a tv job too, sounds pretty gutting.
Soccer Saturday being a six hour advert for skybet whilst Merson works on there turns me off as well.
Paul Merson is still employed by Sky despite all their PL being sponsored by Bet365
ban gambling adds
Fuck this, his analysis is great too - seen him on inside spurs and he talks really well, would make a great pundit
Utter bastards.
This is shameful of both bet365 and the TV company in question for bending to them.
Moments like this really show betting companies really don’t give 2 shits about the responsible gambling campaigns and only about £