Sky's trend for 8pm kick offs

[TWGL1]

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And?

It’s a huge economy for the UK, and it’s good to see there is more and more legislation being brought in.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-reform-of-gambling-laws-to-protect-vulnerable-users-in-smartphone-era

[The Bloop]

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Watershed or no watershed we're still playing in a league sponsored by SkyBet.
Watching old clips of snooker and darts events sponsored by Embassy, looks extremely dated and out of touch. Sooner rather than later I think betting sponsorship will go the same way.

[UNDERHILL1927]

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Yes, ban gambling ads. Ban smoking ads. Ban alcohol ads. Ban ads for crisps, chocolate, sweets, pop. Just ban ads altogether. People can't be trusted to control themselves, so ban all ads. In case someone gets addicted. To anything.

Have a day off, people are talking about serious issues. Idiot

[OurManFlint II]

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Yes, ban gambling ads. Ban smoking ads. Ban alcohol ads. Ban ads for crisps, chocolate, sweets, pop. Just ban ads altogether. People can't be trusted to control themselves, so ban all ads. In case someone gets addicted. To anything.

That's what the Major of Rio did, he wanted people to see past the billboards and look properly and the state of their city, think its now spread right across Brazil.

Ad's don't work anyway ROI is negligible, all about the product and NPS.

[Trigger]

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I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Jumped up in such disgust that I accidentally knocked my freshly poured Madri all over my Thursday night Dominos.

Combined with the nerves and tension from the city match I really wish I still smoked, gave that up when they stopped the adverts though.

[billy.ronson]

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Has anyone seen the programme Paul Merson did about his problems ? Shows how addictive personalities can get into deep problems and how betting companies prey on this weakness.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Yes, ban gambling ads. Ban smoking ads. Ban alcohol ads. Ban ads for crisps, chocolate, sweets, pop. Just ban ads altogether. People can't be trusted to control themselves, so ban all ads. In case someone gets addicted. To anything.

Of course, eating a packet of crisps is exactly the same as a gambling addiction :shrug:

[North Cardiff Blue]

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It’s normalising gambling for young kids.
Setting them up for the future.
Surely not hard to understand.

That's exactly the point, they make it look as normal as going for a walk, it's highly addictive, and young people can get into massive financial difficulty extremely quickly, they shouldn't be able to make gambling look like a cool thing to do.

[dml1954]

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That's exactly the point, they make it look as normal as going for a walk, it's highly addictive, and young people can get into massive financial difficulty extremely quickly, they shouldn't be able to make gambling look like a cool thing to do.

Perhaps you should take a look at the queues of grown up adults at the City stadium every home match placing bets on the football and enjoying themselves doing so. It is their choice to do so and if they do so responsibly then there is no problem. It has always and will continue to happen, tv advertising or not.

[the other bob wilson]

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Yes. it was a real eye opener.

[Dorcus]

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The opportunity to receive betting advertising revenue is clearly the true reason for Sky's 8pm start I'm sure, but I for one prefer an 8 pm start to 7:45. I like staggered match starting times...more football to watch.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Perhaps you should take a look at the queues of grown up adults at the City stadium every home match placing bets on the football and enjoying themselves doing so. It is their choice to do so and if they do so responsibly then there is no problem. It has always and will continue to happen, tv advertising or not.

Exactly that is up to them, but I do object to advertising making it look fun and cool for teenagers, it has been shown to have increased gambling addiction, as has tombola bingo-type advertising increased the number of women-addicted gamblers.

When I was young, I can't remember seeing fancy ads for football betting.