We had a deal. The US has to deal with awful prescription drug ads, and the UK has to deal with awful sports gambling adverts.
Legalized sports betting has broken the deal! Now we get the worst of both worlds.
Legalized sports betting has broken the deal! Now we get the worst of both worlds.
I have been in pubs with sky sports on occasionally, and it just looks like wall-to-wall.
When I was a lad the local football team was sponsored by an international company with a large local factory. Manchester United were sponsored by a TV company. People did gambling, it tended to be old men in grubby bookies and fruit machines, middle-aged ladies doing social events like bingo, the grand national, and then along came Mystic Meg saying how someone with hair may be lucky tonight for their £1 weekly stake.
We managed to ban smoking adverts from things like snooker, but the replacement is just as bad, in a different way