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Press conference does little to reassure iPhone owners
I can’t imagine what it’s currently like for iPhone sufferers playing online poker on their phones, but it could be akin to watching sport by a dodgy online stream only to miss the key moments due to it skipping.
Apple’s latest press conference will be like hearing the entire Justin Bieber catalogue for many iPhone owners then (especially ones who gamble) as their were no firm guarantees that they would fix the signal problems. You get a nice piece of plastic round your phone for free. No-one’s seen the plastic yet, so I wonder if they’re just going to distribute a load of condoms? Branded with Apple of course. Read more.
Italy plays ball with European Commission
All of those detentions, most of them the ignominious afterschool ones, must have done in the trick in Italy. The country’s online gambling regulator, and childishly behaved, Amminstrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato (AAMS) is finally agreeing to work with the European Commission on Italian Gambling Laws.
It all came about when AAMS wouldn’t file the correct documentation with the EC, which they’ve now done, and it’s expected that the laws may be implemented by December. This all comes after litigation was sought by Microgame who thought the government were deliberately delaying everything, when all they were doing was being rather disobedient. Bring back corporal punishment I say, would never have happened in the first place if a bit of discipline were in place. Read more.
TWL fleeing with embarrassment
Not wanting to rest on their laurels for long enough to get caught in a rain shower, The Weather Lottery (TWL) have announced a tie up with a fourth football club. Leicester City will benefit from a full range of online gaming and lottery services under TWL’s FC Betz.com brand, in addition to the Leicester City Lottery being run under the companies FC Lotto brand.
This comes as FC Betz.com is considering plans to relocate their operations to the Isle of Man. Obviously started to become rather red-faced at the caliber of teams they’ve been chosing to partner up with. Read more.
More gherkins in my Big Mac, now!
Marlon King became the latest high-profile footballer to be jailed last October, when he was found guilty of sexual assault and affray, but he was released yesterday without so much as a boyfriend in tow after only nine months in the clink.
Of course this isn’t the first time that a footballer has found themselves incarcerated at Her Majesty’s pleasure, so here’s a list of some of those lucky geezers to have had a free abode for a few months:
Joey Barton
Where do you start with this little scoundrel? To be fair to the law they gave him more chances than you’d give your ex-wife, and he has a charge sheet to well and truly be proud of. It includes a prison term of six months for affray and common assault, which he served 77 days, for an incident outside a McDonalds in 2008 – must have been something in the Big Mac. He has also assaulted two teammates, including Ousemane Dabo, who he left bloodied and unconscious. Barton somehow still, despite these convictions, plays in the Premier League with Newcastle United, and you can’t help but speculate as to who’s next? Ultimate face-off between him and Andy Carroll to watch out for in the coming season.
Nutcase rating: 4.5/5
Stig Tofting
It’s the fearsome central midfielder that you’d always like your club to sign and when they do you’re delighted. That is until they wind up in jail. Bolton signed Tofting in 2002 and by summer 2003 he was already languishing back home following an quarrel in ‘Café Ketchup’ in Copenhagen. The café owner saw just that, as Tofting head-butted him after the owner had teased him about his height, and asked him who Bolton were. Needless to say he wasn’t best pleased, and got four months in jail for it.
Nutcase rating: 3/5
Duncan Ferguson
Typical Dunc
Nutcase rating: 4/5
Gary Charles
Good as gold during his career – probably best known for being in the wrong place at the wrong time when Gazza decided he didn’t fancy Rome after all – but the ball well and truly dropped when his career ended. When a woman attempted to bant with the ex-Derby and Nottm Forest man, that he wasn’t good enough to play Man Utd he proceeded to give her a right old fashioned kicking and has since been reprimanded twice for a number of drink-related offences. He even cut off his electronic tag as he fancied a bit of a knees-up on the Costa del Sol. What are you playing at Gary?! Should have just become a pundit my man!
Nutcase rating: 2.5/5
Edmundo
Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto embodied everything you dreamed of being if you were a footballer. Brazilian international, scored bucket loads of goals, and had the party lifestyle to go with. At one point the Brazilian head-case pissed off animal welfare groups by having an entire circus perform in his back garden, followed by the infamous picture of him having a beer with his chimpanzee. He also has a record of one season receiving seven red cards, but the worst telling off he ever got from the law was a four-and-a-half year jail sentence which he appealed down to a seven-day suspended sentence. Maybe he got the judge drunk like he did with the chimp?
Nutcase rating: 5/5
Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy
Waheyyyy!
For the first time in four years beer sales have increased in like-for-like sales compared to the same quarter last year. The increase is in large part down to the World Cup being staged this summer, and shows just how important the tournament is to the UK economy, and world economy, following earlier news that it has already helped out the gambling industry here and here.
Basically Mr Cameron you need to do all you can to help out the England Football Team ahead of major tournaments. Instead of sanctioning cycle schemes in London give the FA all the money, and when we win the pubs, clubs, bookies, well…everyone will be thanking you. I’ll drink to that! Read more.
Samvo joins Microgaming network
Microgaming has declared that Samvo Group have become the latest company to join their burgeoning poker network empire. The tie up will see Samvo use Microgaming’s poker software on it’s worldwide network, and founder Frank Chan said: We have looked long and hard for a software provider that can complement us throughout the world and Microgaming fits the bill in terms of security, player integrity and quality of games.”
Microgaming’s slogan is ‘We Are in the Game.’ They must be doing something remarkable ‘in the game’ to be attracting the amount of partners they now have on board. Read more.
Who wants the convict on a free transfer?
You’ve all been in the situation. Go out with the boys to celebrate and the beer tells you that you’re still the Casanova with the ladies and, even though the wife’s at home with the three kids, you try for a dance with a couple of girls, only to be spurned, so you walk back to your mates, tail between your legs and all that, right? That would be if you weren’t Marlon King – he just goes Mike Tyson on their ass.
King has been released from prison on early license though, after serving nine months and this will be music to the ears of football clubs everywhere. He’s available on a free transfer, and unless women start to take part in men’s football his disciplinary record will be squeaky clean. Too soon to speculate on his first red card of the new season? On the pitch or from the wife? Read more.
Will gets his brand spanking new iPhone
Problems that have besieged the iPhone don’t seem to be bothering anyone in the mobile gambling industry, as another company has released an app for the device synonymous with the…pretty much anyone in the world today.
William Hill hasn’t released one or two apps, it’s gone for three with each one offering a different service to their customers. The ‘William Hill Tool Bar’ provides live audio commentaries, enable live in-play betting, and has the latest sports headlines, ‘William Hill Football Calendar 2010’ syncs with Outlook to provide football info to users, and ‘William Hill Radio’ provides insight into the world of racing through all manner of different mediums. After taking telebetting abroad, Will must have had a bad experience in one of his shops or something. He’s avoiding them like the plague. Read more.
