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Sport-Book on rise of English football and its riches wins award | Reuters - 07 Jan 2017 01:53

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[[html]](Editing by Tony Jimenez)<br><br>The 50-year-old said he wanted to show how a game that traditionally was associated with working-class Britain had been transformed into the richest sports franchise in the country, with clubs now owned by wealthy American businessmen or Russian oligarchs and players paid hundreds of millions of pounds.. <br><br>LONDON Nov 26 Sports writer David Goldblatt's examination of the traditions and huge amounts of money associated with English football in 'The Game of Our Lives' won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award on Thursday.<br><br><img src="http://www.mrpronostico.com/images/sponsor/bet365/giochi.jpg" width="388" /><br><br><object width="400" height="241"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7H4aHZgqvEw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7H4aHZgqvEw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="241"></embed></object><br><br>The book by Goldblatt, who was won awards for previous work, "is an incisive analysis of how and why football's role in British society has changed so dramatically in recent decades", the prize committee said.<br><br>Goldblatt added that people go to matches because it is part of the nation's "collective identity" but the game is at risk of being stifled by what he called the "sports-industrial complex" of rich owners and commercial sponsors, and by the inflated prices for tickets.<br><br>In the early 1980s the average age of fans attending top-flight English football matches was under 25 while now it is 48 "and going north", he told Reuters.<br><br>"The issue is not the money, if you want a circus someone's got to pay for it," Goldblatt said. "But there are limits…and they're going to <a href="https://www.fun88no1.com/%E0%B8%82%E0%B8%B1%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3-fun88/">สมัคร fun88</a> kill the goose that laid the golden egg."<br><br>Goldblatt's winning book was chosen from a shortlist of six by a panel of six judges[[/html]] - Comments: 0

188Bet agrees soccer shirt sponsorship deal first | Reuters - 02 Jan 2017 02:35

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[[html]]Wigan were known to be looking for a new shirt sponsor. <br><br>188Bet declined to comment on the level of investment<br><br>involved in the deals, which will run concurrently over a<br><br>two-year period.<br><br>(Reporting by Matt Scuffham; editing by Simon Jessop)<br><br>"We were looking for a unique opportunity to mark 188BET's<br><br>first major foray in the UK market, and feel that the<br><br>collaborative engagement with both Bolton Wanderers and Wigan<br><br>Athletic shall help us to further grow the strength of our<br><br>brand," said 188Bet Chief Executive Andy Scott.<br><br>Reebok will continue to manufacture Bolton's kit and is<br><br>committed to sponsoring the club's stadium until 2016 despite<br><br>its parent company, Adidas ADSG.DE, closing its office at the<br><br>stadium earlier this year, with 160 jobs lost as a result.<br><br>JJB last month agreed new, easier terms with its landlords<br><br>in order to stave off administration after it was forced to<br><br>close over 100 shops last year due to tough trading conditions.. West Ham announced a<br><br>deal with SBOBET, another online betting firm last December.<br><br>188Bet, based in the Isle of Man, is following a number of<br><br>other online gambling firms who either currently or have in the<br><br>past sponsored Premier League football clubs. <br><br>Chairman Dave Whelan sold his stake in JJB Sports, the company<br><br>he founded, in 2007 and recently changed the name of Wigan's<br><br>ground from the JJB Stadium to the DW Stadium. At the moment, it is mainly focused on the<br><br>Asian market, which generates about 80 percent of its revenues.<br><br>LONDON May 12 Online gaming firm 188Bet has<br><br>become the first company to sponsor two Premier League clubs<br><br>after striking a deal to sponsor Bolton Wanderers and Wigan<br><br>Athletic, replacing Reebok and JJB Sports JJB.L, respectively.<br><br><object width="400" height="241"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/otdfEtGkzH4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/otdfEtGkzH4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="241"></embed></object><br><br><img src="http://www.mrpronostico.com/images/sponsor/bet365/live.jpg" width="325" /><br><br>Tottenham Hotspur are sponsored by Mansion, a gaming and<br><br>entertainment group based in Gibraltar. The in-play football betting specialist will become<br><br>principal sponsor of the two clubs from the start of the 2009/10<br><br>season and its brand logo will appear on all adult club shirts.<br><br>188Bet said the deals will enable it to raise its profile in<br><br>the UK and Europe<br><br><a href="https://www.fun88no1.com/%E0%B8%9D%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%99-fun88/">https://www.fun88no1.com/%E0%B8%9D%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%99-fun88/</a>[[/html]] - Comments: 0


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