• 7 months ago
Gregory Campbell describes gambling sponsorship of English Premier League clubs as ‘virtual epidemic’

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00:00Would you agree with me when she talks just now about preying on
00:04sometimes susceptible fans in terms of gambling that one of the big emerging problems in the past few years has been this virtual
00:13epidemic of gambling companies sponsoring almost every single
00:18Premier League team to the extent that young people
00:21Think and see their heroes as part of the gambling industry and that is compounding the problems that she's quite rightly
00:29Analyzing today
00:31well, I thank the honourable member for giving way and of course we could have a whole different debate on the influence of
00:38The gambling industry on football and I'm sure we will in future
00:41months in that area, but certainly today that link between
00:47clubs and professional players
00:49With or without their consent is actually being used to attract people to put money into into this

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