Football

FIFA has gained considerable bad press in the recent past, with head honcho Sepp Blatter shouldering much of the blame. It came to light in the past few days that the charismatic former footballer and model, David Ginola, has thrown his hat into the ring to become the next President of FIFA. Who else but Paddy Power have launched a …

Italy’s second division, Lega Serie B, signed an agreement with Sportradar Security Services, under which the betting fraud prevention specialists will provide both education workshops and e-learning packages to all 22 club teams for this season and the next two. Under the terms of the agreement, the workshop and e-learning modules will be provided to the senior team and youth …

UK bookmakers had a Boxing Day to forget as they took a combined £30 million hit on Friday’s football fixtures, making it a very merry time of year for football betting punters. The football fixtures on Friday 26 December saw all betting favourites win their respective matches, as bookmakers cashed out thousands of pounds on winning bets and accumulators. Coral …

English Championship football club Nottingham Forest have won the Sky Bet £250,000 transfer fund to spend in the upcoming January transfer window, despite being subject to a Football League transfer embargo. Forest earned the transfer money thanks to supporter Shaun Lander who won the Sky Bet competition. Lander was announced as winner on Tuesday Lunchtime,  just 24 hours after the …

The experience of going to a stadium on a match day is one which has yet to be really altered by technological leaps and the digital age. Granted, everybody has a smartphone now, and so fewer than ever listen to the scores read out on the loudspeaker at halftime, but few clubs have fully embraced the digital age in terms …

Betfair has become Liverpool Football Club‘s official betting and gaming partner in the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, Denmark, Bulgaria and Italy. The partnership will see Betfair using the strength and scale of LFC’s digital platforms to connect with fans in these regions, bringing Betfair’s range of innovative betting products, including Price Rush and Cash Out, to fans. Features of the …

Concerns are growing in Nigeria regarding the growing popularity of European football betting and the expansion of digital sports betting operators targeting male consumers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), has published a report stating that Nigerians of all age groups spend almost NGN 2 billion (£7.5 million) daily on betting. NAN further estimates that over 60 million Nigerians (population: …

Paddy Power has announced the early pay out of Chelsea FC as champions of the English Premier League 2014/2015 season.  The Irish bookmaker will payout £400,000 today to punters who tipped Jose Mourinho’s side to lift the title come May 2015. The bookmaker described it Premier League winners payout as unavoidable, stating that if it continued the market it would …

Coral and independent social media research and analytics provider Peer Index (Peerindex.com) have compiled a list of the 100 most influential UK football tweeters. The research carried out by Peer Index on behalf of Coral Interactive marketing, saw the analytics provider asses the tweets of renowned UK football tweeters measuring the influence, reach and engagement of their football related tweets. …

UK law practitioners have questioned the legality of new advertising and marketing guidance set by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) with regards to sports betting sponsorship. Legal commentators have questioned the monitoring procedures of the new guidance and whether it can be applied to current sponsorship deals within UK sports. The UKGC’s new guidance on sponsorship states that sports clubs …