New Government Rules Mean No More Gambling Sponsorship

[michellee]

Betting is gambling, people will gamble if they know there's a way to gamble, government just minimize the exposure so people will not be curious. This is even better compared in other countries where gambling was really ban, hence, no gambling means no sponsorship and not tax revenue for the government.

It is right. Maybe the governments need to think about deleting or make changes from what they want to do for the club owners and the shirt sponsorship with gambling firms because that can make the club owner not getting the income they want. If so, the club owner can not pay the government's tax, which will affect the government itself. That can make the club can not survive in this pandemic because they are losing their revenue from the shirt sponsorship. But I am sure there is a way to solve that problem.

[mindrust]

People don't do sports so other people can gamble. They do sports because they like to do it. I never saw a football player that hates his job. (maybe there some but in not many probably) Football players just love playing football. Most of them were dreaming to become a football player when they were kids.

If the casinos get too big, sports may stop being just sports. It will become more of a casino than being sports.

Would you watch a game if you knew the players were not going to put their best effort to win? Would you enjoy it if you knew the game was fixed?

No.

[ecnalubma]

Rules is rules and they should comply with it, in the first place players should promote sports and not gambling. For me its okey, gambling sponsorships should be put in the right place. Maybe there’s a deep reason for that, but could trigger negative and positive impact.

[pawanjain]

May be it's because the Government thinks that having Jersey's with gambling advertisements will promote gambling sites publicly and may encourage many people to gamble which is why they don't want gambling sponsorships on sport jerseys. This might be right in a way. As for the gambling sites, I don't think it will impact them much as they can easily find other sorts of advertising mediums.
It won't affect the sports clubs also as they can find other sponsorships as well. So may be it won't be that big a deal after all or may be I am wrong.

[ene1980]

What are your thoughts on this do you agree with the government or you’re against this proposal, and how do you think that the club owners will react knowing that they’ll have to suffer more financial losses if this is implemented.

It is ridiculous to impose these restrictions but i think these are tactics by the government so that the major advertising gambling companies who are shelling out millions registers in the UK and then they can earn that revenue as well. Other than that not sure what is the purpose of shutting down their revenue stream.

May be it's because the Government thinks that having Jersey's with gambling advertisements will promote gambling sites publicly and may encourage many people to gamble which is why they don't want gambling sponsorships on sport jerseys.

Do the government think that people are that stupid to watch these sponsorship and then starts gambling .

[JohnBitCo]

What are your thoughts on this do you agree with the government or you’re against this proposal, and how do you think that the club owners will react knowing that they’ll have to suffer more financial losses if this is implemented.

I really don't think if the club owners or the players will suffer any loss due to this new rule. The good clubs will get sponsorship from other non-gambling companies.
The real loss will be borne by the gambling sites and bookies who used to sponsor the clubs and in return get a lot of business.

[ultrloa]

What are your thoughts on this do you agree with the government or you’re against this proposal, and how do you think that the club owners will react knowing that they’ll have to suffer more financial losses if this is implemented.

I really don't think if the club owners or the players will suffer any loss due to this new rule. The good clubs will get sponsorship from other non-gambling companies.
The real loss will be borne by the gambling sites and bookies who used to sponsor the clubs and in return get a lot of business.

Actually the teams who have bigger contracts with sportsbook or other casino would really get affected on this since instead of they already have a sponsor now its gone and its really technical to find new one since for sure they have so many teams consider before there teams will be selected on the said sponsorship. But if they are a big team maybe they will not get any problem but I'm sure they will missed millions of dollars from the contracts  of gambling platforms.

[stadus]

What are your thoughts on this do you agree with the government or you’re against this proposal, and how do you think that the club owners will react knowing that they’ll have to suffer more financial losses if this is implemented.

I really don't think if the club owners or the players will suffer any loss due to this new rule. The good clubs will get sponsorship from other non-gambling companies.
The real loss will be borne by the gambling sites and bookies who used to sponsor the clubs and in return get a lot of business.

Actually the teams who have bigger contracts with sportsbook or other casino would really get affected on this since instead of they already have a sponsor now its gone and its really technical to find new one since for sure they have so many teams consider before there teams will be selected on the said sponsorship. But if they are a big team maybe they will not get any problem but I'm sure they will missed millions of dollars from the contracts  of gambling platforms.

This would affect the whole league, they have no choice but to accept the salary if they still want to play at the same league. Changes happened, that needs to be accepted as it's the government decision to not allow gambling sponsorship anymore, and that is final.

[molsewid]

Huh, that's a huge hit to the industry since when someone takes the first step, it's quite possible that a lot of others would closely follow. It seems kinda stupid that they're blaming addiction to sponsorship though. It's like they're attacking the knife for being dangerous when the one who holds the knife is the dangerous one. I get the idea that removing the knife entirely out of the picture would reduce the risk, but this also indicates that others who use said knife would be impacted.

I just hope that they have proper talks about this tbh. As well as properly thinking of ideas on how to combat addiction effectively instead of band-aid ideas, which is imo, like this one.

I think they just want to be paid or put more taxes to the football industry, it has been years they didn't do anything against it nor they made rules before football betting started to be popular, I think this thing shall pass soon, they just need to agree in some protocols and agenda, but government should not be bias and not blame this game sponsorhip because many people gamble because of it, addiction came from within.

[acroman08]

I’m disappointed with the government as this is not the best time to enforce this:

Football has been warned it faces a “significant impact” with the Government ready to impose a major crackdown on betting sponsorship.

Ministers could impose a complete ban on shirt sponsorship with gambling firms as part of their review with teams from the top two divisions making around £110m-a-year from the tie-ups.

What are your thoughts on this do you agree with the government or you’re against this proposal, and how do you think that the club owners will react knowing that they’ll have to suffer more financial losses if this is implemented.

Source:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/football-clubs-warned-betting-sponsorship-23457892.amp

to be honest I think it is ridiculous but on the other hand, I understand their concern about increasing gambling addiction in their country and preventing ads to spread the publicity of a gambling company is one of their goals. but I think them prohibiting gambling sponsorship on football won't really stop anything other than the additional income these teams get from these gambling sponsorships but that being said if they really implemented this new rule this would open up an opportunity to other companies interested in sponsoring the teams. so, in the end, them implementing this might really not have a significant impact on the football teams. but I think the government could really do better than banning shirt sponsorship for gambling companies

[AmoreJaz]

Huh, that's a huge hit to the industry since when someone takes the first step, it's quite possible that a lot of others would closely follow. It seems kinda stupid that they're blaming addiction to sponsorship though. It's like they're attacking the knife for being dangerous when the one who holds the knife is the dangerous one. I get the idea that removing the knife entirely out of the picture would reduce the risk, but this also indicates that others who use said knife would be impacted.

I just hope that they have proper talks about this tbh. As well as properly thinking of ideas on how to combat addiction effectively instead of band-aid ideas, which is imo, like this one.

I think they just want to be paid or put more taxes to the football industry, it has been years they didn't do anything against it nor they made rules before football betting started to be popular, I think this thing shall pass soon, they just need to agree in some protocols and agenda, but government should not be bias and not blame this game sponsorhip because many people gamble because of it, addiction came from within.

it is not because of gambling sponsorship that people are into gambling. youre right, addiction came from within. it has nothing to do with sponsorship stuffs. gambling has been here for centuries, they just mutate into different forms. so i dont think the government can eradicate by this simple move. people will go into gambling even without seeing those gambling sponsors. gamblers know their way in to these casinos or gambling platforms. i dont think such move will be effective with their main goals here.

[ajaxmoor]

There is no way this gets rolled out worldwide. Might be UK only for now. The Sports industry primarily relies on money from gambling and sponsoring. It just wouldn't be the same without them.
So are they only banning gambling sites/business based sponsoring ? Its so not intuitive to not ban gambling sites because of the taxes they collect, but ban the advertising they have to offer, because the government needs to care about the public.

[Becky666]

Rules is rules and they should comply with it, in the first place players should promote sports and not gambling. For me its okey, gambling sponsorships should be put in the right place. Maybe there’s a deep reason for that, but could trigger negative and positive impact.

Basically one of the reason i could figured out here was that of influence most of these sponsors have on their sponsorship, when there are too many sponsors in a gambling there is always this tendency that games are likely to be rig in their favor, so, for government to have come out with this rules mean something isn't right with the existing system.

[uneng]

What are your thoughts on this do you agree with the government or you’re against this proposal, and how do you think that the club owners will react knowing that they’ll have to suffer more financial losses if this is implemented.

The only prejudiced here will be the teams and the players who will feel the loss in their own pockets. All the rest will continue the same: betting houses working and making profit, addicted gamblers losing money and many thousands or millions of other people will continue gambling normally. The government's solution doesn't solve anything, that is the truth.
If the issue are the addicted gamblers treat this point separately, but don't censor the whole industry for this reason. That is what I think the government should have in mind.

[Kakmakr]

So it's acceptable to have casino advertisements on paid television, but it is not good to have gambling related advertisement on the clothing of athletes? How does that make sense....?  In my country... you will see gambling advertisements every 30 to 40 minutes on "public" television. (Government owned) .... so I doubt that they would implement it here.

Governments should rather focus on their core responsibilities ....which is the rendering of a service ....and leave the citizens to make their own decisions. Casino and Lottery operation contribute millions to the government covers every year. 

[notblox1]

This is just getting crazy and if this goes through in United Kingdom with banning all betting websites sponsoring clubs it will shut down many smaller clubs especially in Championship, lower leagues and it will hugely affect even the big clubs, and I am starting to think that someone wants this to happen on purpose.
What else can we expect after global pandemic, crazy measures, no public on stadiums and now this ban for sponsorship?!
How are they thinking clubs are going to survive and how are players going to get their paychecks?

[magneto]

Keyword: could.

This is probably not going to happen because of the powerful lobbies that these leagues have, as well as the gambling industry. I honestly don't see a scenario where gambling sponsorship gets outlawed simply because there is too much revenue, both corporate and tax, at stake.

Nor does such a ban even make sense. Problem gambling doesn't develop from advertisements alone.

[FlightyPouch]

Well, these gambling sponsorships are the ones that interest more players to play and even makes the league better. As far as I know, the whole league has this huge profit because this gambling sites contributes to it, it is their massive contribution the reason why this league is also having a massive profit. Why would they remove that?

Since there are a lot of rich people that gains from this, I also think that this will not happen.

[pixie85]

Simply stupid if you ask me.

Allowing some companies to sponsor and blocking others has nothing to do with fairness. That same fairness that sports are supposed to promote!

Who's there to say what company can be displayed on uniforms and what cannot be? This should be decided by the team not some government asshole.

[Russlenat]

Simply stupid if you ask me.

Allowing some companies to sponsor and blocking others has nothing to do with fairness. That same fairness that sports are supposed to promote!

Who's there to say what company can be displayed on uniforms and what cannot be? This should be decided by the team not some government asshole.

Government has intervene with the law they will impose, it's not up to the teams now to decide about it, and I believe this new Government rules is for the entire league, not on a certain team alone.