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Jordan Nails The Anti Gambling Brigade

The Shameless Angst Of Papers Who Promote Gambling
by simon jordan

"It's a lesson in spin. In the five months before January, Wayne Rooney lost 700,000. In the same five months he earned £1.5million after tax and hasn't gambled since.

How to splash that on a tabloid? "Roo's £700,000 bets debt or - England camp's turmoil...'

There are some big emotional problems here, but they're not Wayne's. Two months before the World Cup, another excruciatingly lame, limp-wristed slap at England by a British paper, revealing nothing, motivated by circulation and defended as 'public interest'. There's a 'secret dressing-room gambling ring' panted the Sunday Mirror, then billed it 'world exclusive'."

England Blog Comment :: Read Simon Jordan's Opinion On The Gambling Waffle that has been put forward lately by the tabloids on the front pages. While the back pages list every horserace meeting, the riders, runners, colours, form, tips and so on.

Simon Jordan is quite a card when it comes to crunching the cockroaches in my opinion. Atleast the real anti brigade don't promote gambling. The press promote sports betting, horseracing and will be promoting poker heavily soon enough, then happily waffle on about the moralities of problem gambling to sell more of their morality challenged ad copy.

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Posted at 10:34 AM, Sunday, April 16, 2006

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Rooney 700k Behind Betting On 3 Legged Ponies

Apparently the FA are investigating Wayne Rooney's alledged £700,000 gambling debt with unnamed bookmakers.

If Rooney is not breaching FA betting laws re gambling on football, I am not sure what it has to do with the FA or Sven really. I guess something along the lines of looking out for the players interests will be the angle.

Rooney 700k Gambling Debt?
A spokesman for Rooney refused to discuss today's report in the Sunday Mirror, saying: "We have got absolutely no comment to make."

Adam Bevington, the FA director of communications, said: "We are unaware of any problems in the England team dressing room due to issues surrounding gambling or anything else come to that. Under Sven, the England team have enjoyed a fantastic spirit within the camp, a point that is regularly made by the players publicly.

"It's important the fans know that everyone connected to the FA and the England team is determined to do all they can to achieve success in Germany."

But, Mr Bevington added: "There is little the FA can do to prevent any individuals gambling privately on horse or greyhound racing though there are rules preventing betting on any football matches or competitions they are involved in."

England Blog Comment - If true, Wayne Rooney must have been betting the same 3 legged ponies that I have been lately. Somewhat slightly larger stakes though. It is his money. He earnt it, he can piss it away in the wind if he wants and should be able to do so in private without "investigations" from the football authorities and morality wasters in the tabloids throwing more poison fruit the England team's way.

The fact Rooney does'nt gamble anymore speaks volumes. Think about it.

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Problem Gambling
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Posted at 11:38 AM, Sunday, April 09, 2006

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