It isn't though, is it? It's nothing like that.
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[Finance] Betfred compelled to hand over £1.7m winnings
- Thread starter Weststander
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It isn't though, is it? It's nothing like that.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I don't understand the Watford comparison either.
Weststander
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Someone’s on a DailyMail-esque 
expedition.
expedition.
Arthur
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Of course it is
Surely being homophobic when the person bank rolling your club is a homosexual is as daft as moaning about gambling when your club is being bank rolled by someone who makes their money from that industry. As it would be for a Stoke fan or a West Ham fan moaning about the porn industry or a Newcastle fan moaning about sportswear.
Are you fishing?
You're seriously comparing homophobia with a dislike of the gambling industry?
Homophobia is prejudiced and nasty. Disliking the gambling industry is an opinion. Two very, very different things.
Also, how our chairman made his money is totally irrelevant to my opinion of the gambling industry.
Arthur
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No I'm not fishing.
Quite frankly I don't care what anyone other than myself thinks about homosexuals or the gambling industry that is their opinion and they are entitled to it. All I'm saying is don't bite the hand that feeds.
Similar to the mush on the bargains thread moaning about Amazon's business practices when those affiliate dollars are a large part of keeping this site going.
Always nice to hear such stories
A bit like in seeking to avoid being gubbed, whilst drawing the £1,100, did you place a few inconsequential bets to give the impressions of a (losing) regular punter?
Yeh I like them as well - I got paid out on a 5 team accumulator once. I erroneously, picked a team that I forgot had kicked off at an earlier time and had already finished. They paid out on the full 5 teams as opposed to 4 of them so I also forgot to point it out to them.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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To the best of my knowledge Tony hasn't made any of his money from operating as a bookmaker has he?
I know he was employed by Victor Chandler at one point, but Star Lizard place bets on behalf of syndicates, not by taking cash off hapless punters.
You obviously do care what other people's opinions are, otherwise you wouldn't have posted on this thread. You're also the one who (bizarely) brought up homophobia. I still don't know what point you were trying to make with that.
Such a bumder
Quite. And usually by the time the funs stops, you've lost your house. Luckily I don't bet. Mainly because I have never understood the mechanics of it and also I don't earn enough to risk any of it.
Pevenseagull
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- Jul 20, 2003
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Well I've ignored all the warnings in this thread and just stuck £5 each way on Potter's Corner to win the Grand National @26/1
So there
So there
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Will it have two jockeys?
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
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Arthur
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I don't care, firm believer that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Just think its odd a Brighton fan would have such dim views on gambling when the modern day foundations of the club are built off the back of that money.
I guess its the same hypocrisy that hates the premier league and all that it stands for but longs to be there which I'm sure many of us are guilty of.
He's paid £60k a week....
That's disgusting, you could pay two nurses and a teacher for a year for that
*bangs one in the top corner*
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