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Apparently his betting empire Starlizard makes around £600m profit annually, a former associate has claimed. He's being sued for $17.5m as a share of profits from a betting syndicate. It's alleged Bloom's syndicates use the accounts of third parties to get bets on eg footballers, sportsmen and businessmen, who'd keep a share of the winnings.
This is very crafty. I thought this is disallowed, and bookies could retain any profits; maybe only to mere mortals and dipsticks like us recreational punters. ???????
This is very crafty. I thought this is disallowed, and bookies could retain any profits; maybe only to mere mortals and dipsticks like us recreational punters. ???????
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Spare a thought for the layers poor sods must be eating rice…..
You are thicker than a Blackpool Donkey,Implausible
Strange, thought books used the fraud act when bets being placed by third party accounts saying it was a mis representation etc
The books are "****" really. The books will not dare cross-swords with high worth and high profile betting individuals. And, bookmaking is heavily determined by reputation; volume could diminish overnight post a negative pr.
I fail to believe a word of this p!ss tbh….
600M…..yeah just like confetti……cuckoo!
600M…..yeah just like confetti……cuckoo!
You have now joined Implausible,Aceform.
What a pair of plonkers
What a pair of plonkers
It is also outlined that Bloom’s syndicates allegedly use the accounts of third parties to get bets on, including “footballers, sportsmen and businessmen”, who would then keep a share of any winnings.
This is dynamite isn't it?
This is dynamite isn't it?
Proving those claims might prove a tad difficult,duffy.
If you shake hands with Bloom it is best to count your fingers afterwards.
If you shake hands with Bloom it is best to count your fingers afterwards.
The books could start court proceedings to get money (losses) back from Bloom's syndicates. I think Mr Ryan Dudfield could be in the money if batting for the bookies.
One rule for the big boys, one rule for the midgets. This practice is not politician specific. It happens with betting too.
Is A=anyone here affiliated with one of Bloom's syndicates?
One rule for the big boys, one rule for the midgets. This practice is not politician specific. It happens with betting too.
Is A=anyone here affiliated with one of Bloom's syndicates?
Far East bookies heavily regulated by the GC Impossible? Or maybe he punts with small independents to avoid attention, disgusting if he is taking the food off their tables!!
civil case . opening gambit by the appellants lawyers to try paint a narrative. doesnt mean that all or any of it is true. cant see that even placing bets through third parties on such a scale would bookies all round the world allow such losses on an ongoing basis. RP article also says that Bloom bought Brighton as a result of gambling. His father, grandfather and great grandfather were all owners of Brighton
The RP have never bothered too much with things like accuracy,gambas.
I read that his Grandfather and Uncle were directors/chairmen but were not owners.
Could his betting empire implode after this nuclear revelation? His future bets are bound to be scrutinised like no tomorrow, probably refused or reduced to 100p like most here.
It makes you wonder then why, with so much apparently at stake and not wanting the scrutiny,he didn't manage to get this settled out of court.
The big boys are greedy and egoistic eg Fergie and Magnier; parents of the disable Irish child and Magnier; Gorman (trainer) against Comer and Magnier.
What's the common denominator?
What's the common denominator?
Wonder how much was outlayed to ensure stands side rail was overwatered night before High Standings Wokingham victory.
It always amused me when Harry claimed that he and Bloom were partners
Gambas
Tony Bloom's father, grandfather and great grandfather never owned Brighton F.C.
His uncle Ray is a director and his grandfather was vice chairman in the 1970 s
Tony Bloom has a 29% shares non voting in Hearts the rest are owned by The foundation of Hearts with a 71% stake.The current chairwoman is former owner Ann Budge.
Tony Bloom also has an interest with a minority shareholding in Belguim side Union Saint-Gilloise
Tony Bloom's father, grandfather and great grandfather never owned Brighton F.C.
His uncle Ray is a director and his grandfather was vice chairman in the 1970 s
Tony Bloom has a 29% shares non voting in Hearts the rest are owned by The foundation of Hearts with a 71% stake.The current chairwoman is former owner Ann Budge.
Tony Bloom also has an interest with a minority shareholding in Belguim side Union Saint-Gilloise
Implausible actually believes that Bloom gets "on" with our Firms.
You couldn't make it up
You couldn't make it up
Some still think JP earned his wealth through punting….he still laughs it off…
Via Jamestown Analytics, he's probably got the potential to be one of the most influential people in football globally, as well as a good few other sports. Probably much to the disdain of quite a few people currently stealing a living as "agents" and/or "scouts".
I'd imagine it's not too dissimilar in approach to the workings behind his betting analysis.
I'd imagine it's not too dissimilar in approach to the workings behind his betting analysis.
Doesn't give much away but an interesting read:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/hearts-brighton-como-neil-crichtley-33930666
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/hearts-brighton-como-neil-crichtley-33930666
operating a secret £600million gambling syndicate to bet on football matches, using accounts including some belonging to Nigel Farage’s former chief of staff.
Bloom, the 55-year-old billionaire businessman and professional gambler, also has a significant stake in the Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts. He controls the “Tony Bloom Betting Syndicate”, which is said in court papers to have agreed with George Cottrell, Farage’s former aide, to use his offshore gaming accounts “to place bets on sporting fixtures, predominantly football matches”. Cottrell has previously been jailed for money laundering in the United States.
The allegations are included in a claim filed at London’s High Court by a former employee of Starlizard, a betting advisory company owned by Bloom through which his syndicate — which boasts more than 100 members that he invites personally to join — places some of its bets.
NINTCHDBPICT000907928953
Cottrell was jailed for eight months in 2017 for money laundering in the US
FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS
In the claim seen by The Times, Ryan Dudfield alleges he is owed £17.5million of the profits made via Cottrell’s accounts after introducing the political aide to the syndicate.
Dudfield said the syndicate used “secret exotic accounts . . . in the name of third parties, through which Mr Bloom and his betting syndicate placed their bets”. Somebody like Cottrell is described as a “whale” — a term used to describe high-stakes gamblers who act as a front to place bets on behalf of a syndicate.
Dudfield says he has known Cottrell, 32, a former deputy treasurer of UKIP, for five years. Cottrell is known in political circles as “Posh George” and was previously Farage’s chief of staff.
While it is believed that Bloom has never met Cottrell personally, he is said to have been introduced to the syndicate by Dudfield via a senior employee at Starlizard in 2022. In 2017, Cottrell was jailed for eight months in the US after admitting offering to use the “dark web” to launder money for drug dealers. He was caught in an operation by undercover agents.
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Dudfield also claims that Bloom and the syndicate used the betting accounts of “well-known footballers, sportsmen and businessmen” to place bets. While it is not thought that any ex-footballers are members of Bloom’s syndicate, The Times understands some placed the same bets as those on the syndicate.
Evidence submitted as part of the claim includes a list of bets which Dudfield suggests may be linked to the Bloom syndicate, some of which are said to be on Premier League matches.
In 2014 Bloom was given special dispensation by the Football Association to operate his betting consultancy, Starlizard, and continue to bet on football through his syndicate. The exemption was extended to other club owners with pre-existing business interests in gambling, including Brentford’s Matthew Benham.
However, the FA policy does not permit participants to place bets on matches or competitions involving their own clubs, meaning Bloom is not allowed to bet on Brighton games, any other Premier League game, or matches in knockout competitions involving Premier League teams.
As part of an agreement with the FA that has never been publicly disclosed, all his bets are audited both by a leading accountancy firm and the FA every year. Bloom has never been found to have breached the special agreement with English football’s governing body.
Nigel Farage speaking at a pro-Brexit march with signs reading "NO DELAY", "NO DEAL? NO PROBLEM", and "RESPECT THE REFERENDUM".
Cottrell, right, with Farage in 2019
ALAMY
Indeed, it is expected that lawyers acting for Bloom will reject any suggestion that his syndicate has placed bets on Premier League matches or games involving top-flight teams in the 11 years since the FA introduced its exemption. They plan to file a defence rejecting the allegations in response to Dudfield’s claim next month.
But within the 19-page claim, which was accepted at the High Court on November 20, the details around Bloom’s betting activities in football remain eye-watering when other participants in football, from players to club employees and officials, are banned from betting on the sport worldwide. The England internationals Ivan Toney and Kieran Trippier are among those to have been banned in recent years for breaches of FA rules on gambling.
Lawyers acting for Dudfield say their client is owed a share of $250million (£188million) in estimated profits. Collectively, the claim states that the syndicate — which it inaccurately calls the “Starlizard Betting Syndicate” — makes about £600million each year in winnings. Dudfield claims the syndicate is “highly successful”.
Dudfield is suing Bloom, known in the gambling world as “The Lizard”, and “all other members of the ‘Starlizard’ betting syndicate”.
Tony Bloom, owner of Brighton & Hove Albion, in the stands celebrating a goal with fans.
Bloom has overseen Brighton’s rise from the lower leagues to an established Premier League club since becoming chairman in 2009
ANTHONY HANC/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
He says the syndicate is operated via “Starlizard Consulting Limited”, which was incorporated by Bloom in January 2006. He says the shares are owned by Blue Lizard Commercial Ltd, in which Bloom is the majority shareholder.
Dudfield claims he was employed by Starlizard Consulting as a “placer” to decide when and where to place bets “usually on behalf of Mr Bloom and his betting syndicate”. He says he was based at a small “satellite office” in Canary Wharf, London, and operated in a “secretive manner” so other employees of the consulting company were unaware of their activities.
Bloom is alleged to be the “head of the syndicate” and “the sole beneficial owner of the bank accounts into which the syndicate’s winnings are paid and out of which winnings are distributed”.
Cottrell is described in the claim as a high-stakes gambler who is involved in co-ordinating an offshore sports and casino betting business called “tether.bet”, which allows its users to place bets in cryptocurrencies.
Dudfield says Cottrell contacted him in February 2022 asking for the likely identity of the person who was placing bets via the “tether.bet” website, which resulted in seven-figure wins. Dudfield claims he believed it could be Bloom and informed Ian McAleavy, the syndicate’s head of football, via WhatsApp and during a meeting at the Bald Faced Stag pub in East Finchley, north London.
Dudfield says he offered to introduce Cottrell to McAleavy, in order to strike an agreement between the syndicate and Bloom to use the aide’s betting accounts. Dudfield claims he arranged a meeting with McAleavy, Cottrell and Cottrell’s then girlfriend, the socialite Georgia Toffolo, at Daphne’s restaurant in Chelsea, west London. Toffolo, 31, appeared in the E4 reality show Made in Chelsea and won ITV’s I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! in 2017.
Georgia Toffolo at Ladies Day of the Betfred Derby Festival.
Cottrell was previously in a relationship with the Made in Chelsea star Toffolo
AARON CHOWN/PA
He claims an agreement was reached that 60 per cent of the profits made using Cottrell’s accounts would go to Bloom and the syndicate, 33 per cent to Cottrell, and 7 per cent to himself. The syndicate also allegedly agreed to stop placing its bets via gambling platforms in which Cottrell had a financial interest, such as tether.bet.
Dudfield said messages from McAleavy suggested that the agreement led to £3million of profits by October 20, 2022, and £4.5million by November 25, 2022. Dudfield says he was told the syndicate stopped using Cottrell’s betting accounts between December 22, 2022, and July 2023.
He says Cottrell told him at Brinkley’s restaurant in Chelsea on July 6, 2023 that he ended his relationship with the syndicate because “he did not consider they would win him enough money”.
Dudfield says the claims that the syndicate stopped using Cottrell’s accounts were “false” and “fraudulent”, and that Bloom and the syndicate have benefited from “unjust enrichment” by cutting him out of his 7 per cent share of the profits. Cottrell is alleged to have already made an estimated $85million (£64million).
Dudfield claims after he introduced the syndicate to Cottrell that it placed bets using the aide’s accounts on Stake.com, a gambling site based on the Caribbean island of Curaçao which is not authorised to operate in the UK. It is not unlawful for US gamblers to place bets on unregulated sites.
Cottrell describes himself on LinkedIn as a “political adviser and strategist” who was deputy treasurer of UKIP during the EU referendum campaign in 2016 and The Brexit Party in 2019, and served as a senior adviser to Farage.
Cottrell was arrested in 2016 after attending the Republican National Convention, where Donald Trump won the party’s nomination for president. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud after offering advice to undercover federal agents in Las Vegas, posing as drug traffickers, on “ways criminal proceeds could be laundered” on the dark web. He served eight months in prisons in Arizona and Illinois.
Cottrell has signed a deal to co-write a book titled How to Launder Money, which is described by the publisher as a “unique insiders’ guide to money laundering — and how to stop it”. He started placing bets at the age of 12, and has admitted being so addicted to gambling that he once took a Harvey Nichols bag stuffed with £50,000 cash into a William Hill bookmakers’ and lost it all. He is reported to have once lost $20million in a single poker game.
George Cottrell smoking a cigarette and holding papers while attending a 'Leave Means Leave' campaign event.
Cottrell has a deal to co-write a book titled “How to Launder Money”
ALAMY
His father, Mark, went to Gordonstoun School with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his mother, Fiona, a former glamour model, was romantically linked to Prince Charles in the 1970s. His mother is the biggest donor to Reform, contributing £250,000 in March to take her total to £750,000 over the past year.
Cottrell was privately educated on Mustique, the Caribbean island, and later at Malvern College. He divides his time between London and Montenegro.
Bloom has declined to comment. Both Cottrell and his lawyers have also been approached for comment. The FA will not respond while legal proceedings are in progress.
Bloom, the 55-year-old billionaire businessman and professional gambler, also has a significant stake in the Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts. He controls the “Tony Bloom Betting Syndicate”, which is said in court papers to have agreed with George Cottrell, Farage’s former aide, to use his offshore gaming accounts “to place bets on sporting fixtures, predominantly football matches”. Cottrell has previously been jailed for money laundering in the United States.
The allegations are included in a claim filed at London’s High Court by a former employee of Starlizard, a betting advisory company owned by Bloom through which his syndicate — which boasts more than 100 members that he invites personally to join — places some of its bets.
NINTCHDBPICT000907928953
Cottrell was jailed for eight months in 2017 for money laundering in the US
FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS
In the claim seen by The Times, Ryan Dudfield alleges he is owed £17.5million of the profits made via Cottrell’s accounts after introducing the political aide to the syndicate.
Dudfield said the syndicate used “secret exotic accounts . . . in the name of third parties, through which Mr Bloom and his betting syndicate placed their bets”. Somebody like Cottrell is described as a “whale” — a term used to describe high-stakes gamblers who act as a front to place bets on behalf of a syndicate.
Dudfield says he has known Cottrell, 32, a former deputy treasurer of UKIP, for five years. Cottrell is known in political circles as “Posh George” and was previously Farage’s chief of staff.
While it is believed that Bloom has never met Cottrell personally, he is said to have been introduced to the syndicate by Dudfield via a senior employee at Starlizard in 2022. In 2017, Cottrell was jailed for eight months in the US after admitting offering to use the “dark web” to launder money for drug dealers. He was caught in an operation by undercover agents.
Read more
Who’s the convicted aristocrat at Nigel Farage’s side?
Dudfield also claims that Bloom and the syndicate used the betting accounts of “well-known footballers, sportsmen and businessmen” to place bets. While it is not thought that any ex-footballers are members of Bloom’s syndicate, The Times understands some placed the same bets as those on the syndicate.
Evidence submitted as part of the claim includes a list of bets which Dudfield suggests may be linked to the Bloom syndicate, some of which are said to be on Premier League matches.
In 2014 Bloom was given special dispensation by the Football Association to operate his betting consultancy, Starlizard, and continue to bet on football through his syndicate. The exemption was extended to other club owners with pre-existing business interests in gambling, including Brentford’s Matthew Benham.
However, the FA policy does not permit participants to place bets on matches or competitions involving their own clubs, meaning Bloom is not allowed to bet on Brighton games, any other Premier League game, or matches in knockout competitions involving Premier League teams.
As part of an agreement with the FA that has never been publicly disclosed, all his bets are audited both by a leading accountancy firm and the FA every year. Bloom has never been found to have breached the special agreement with English football’s governing body.
Nigel Farage speaking at a pro-Brexit march with signs reading "NO DELAY", "NO DEAL? NO PROBLEM", and "RESPECT THE REFERENDUM".
Cottrell, right, with Farage in 2019
ALAMY
Indeed, it is expected that lawyers acting for Bloom will reject any suggestion that his syndicate has placed bets on Premier League matches or games involving top-flight teams in the 11 years since the FA introduced its exemption. They plan to file a defence rejecting the allegations in response to Dudfield’s claim next month.
But within the 19-page claim, which was accepted at the High Court on November 20, the details around Bloom’s betting activities in football remain eye-watering when other participants in football, from players to club employees and officials, are banned from betting on the sport worldwide. The England internationals Ivan Toney and Kieran Trippier are among those to have been banned in recent years for breaches of FA rules on gambling.
Lawyers acting for Dudfield say their client is owed a share of $250million (£188million) in estimated profits. Collectively, the claim states that the syndicate — which it inaccurately calls the “Starlizard Betting Syndicate” — makes about £600million each year in winnings. Dudfield claims the syndicate is “highly successful”.
Dudfield is suing Bloom, known in the gambling world as “The Lizard”, and “all other members of the ‘Starlizard’ betting syndicate”.
Tony Bloom, owner of Brighton & Hove Albion, in the stands celebrating a goal with fans.
Bloom has overseen Brighton’s rise from the lower leagues to an established Premier League club since becoming chairman in 2009
ANTHONY HANC/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
He says the syndicate is operated via “Starlizard Consulting Limited”, which was incorporated by Bloom in January 2006. He says the shares are owned by Blue Lizard Commercial Ltd, in which Bloom is the majority shareholder.
Dudfield claims he was employed by Starlizard Consulting as a “placer” to decide when and where to place bets “usually on behalf of Mr Bloom and his betting syndicate”. He says he was based at a small “satellite office” in Canary Wharf, London, and operated in a “secretive manner” so other employees of the consulting company were unaware of their activities.
Bloom is alleged to be the “head of the syndicate” and “the sole beneficial owner of the bank accounts into which the syndicate’s winnings are paid and out of which winnings are distributed”.
Cottrell is described in the claim as a high-stakes gambler who is involved in co-ordinating an offshore sports and casino betting business called “tether.bet”, which allows its users to place bets in cryptocurrencies.
Dudfield says Cottrell contacted him in February 2022 asking for the likely identity of the person who was placing bets via the “tether.bet” website, which resulted in seven-figure wins. Dudfield claims he believed it could be Bloom and informed Ian McAleavy, the syndicate’s head of football, via WhatsApp and during a meeting at the Bald Faced Stag pub in East Finchley, north London.
Dudfield says he offered to introduce Cottrell to McAleavy, in order to strike an agreement between the syndicate and Bloom to use the aide’s betting accounts. Dudfield claims he arranged a meeting with McAleavy, Cottrell and Cottrell’s then girlfriend, the socialite Georgia Toffolo, at Daphne’s restaurant in Chelsea, west London. Toffolo, 31, appeared in the E4 reality show Made in Chelsea and won ITV’s I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! in 2017.
Georgia Toffolo at Ladies Day of the Betfred Derby Festival.
Cottrell was previously in a relationship with the Made in Chelsea star Toffolo
AARON CHOWN/PA
He claims an agreement was reached that 60 per cent of the profits made using Cottrell’s accounts would go to Bloom and the syndicate, 33 per cent to Cottrell, and 7 per cent to himself. The syndicate also allegedly agreed to stop placing its bets via gambling platforms in which Cottrell had a financial interest, such as tether.bet.
Dudfield said messages from McAleavy suggested that the agreement led to £3million of profits by October 20, 2022, and £4.5million by November 25, 2022. Dudfield says he was told the syndicate stopped using Cottrell’s betting accounts between December 22, 2022, and July 2023.
He says Cottrell told him at Brinkley’s restaurant in Chelsea on July 6, 2023 that he ended his relationship with the syndicate because “he did not consider they would win him enough money”.
Dudfield says the claims that the syndicate stopped using Cottrell’s accounts were “false” and “fraudulent”, and that Bloom and the syndicate have benefited from “unjust enrichment” by cutting him out of his 7 per cent share of the profits. Cottrell is alleged to have already made an estimated $85million (£64million).
Dudfield claims after he introduced the syndicate to Cottrell that it placed bets using the aide’s accounts on Stake.com, a gambling site based on the Caribbean island of Curaçao which is not authorised to operate in the UK. It is not unlawful for US gamblers to place bets on unregulated sites.
Cottrell describes himself on LinkedIn as a “political adviser and strategist” who was deputy treasurer of UKIP during the EU referendum campaign in 2016 and The Brexit Party in 2019, and served as a senior adviser to Farage.
Cottrell was arrested in 2016 after attending the Republican National Convention, where Donald Trump won the party’s nomination for president. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud after offering advice to undercover federal agents in Las Vegas, posing as drug traffickers, on “ways criminal proceeds could be laundered” on the dark web. He served eight months in prisons in Arizona and Illinois.
Cottrell has signed a deal to co-write a book titled How to Launder Money, which is described by the publisher as a “unique insiders’ guide to money laundering — and how to stop it”. He started placing bets at the age of 12, and has admitted being so addicted to gambling that he once took a Harvey Nichols bag stuffed with £50,000 cash into a William Hill bookmakers’ and lost it all. He is reported to have once lost $20million in a single poker game.
George Cottrell smoking a cigarette and holding papers while attending a 'Leave Means Leave' campaign event.
Cottrell has a deal to co-write a book titled “How to Launder Money”
ALAMY
His father, Mark, went to Gordonstoun School with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his mother, Fiona, a former glamour model, was romantically linked to Prince Charles in the 1970s. His mother is the biggest donor to Reform, contributing £250,000 in March to take her total to £750,000 over the past year.
Cottrell was privately educated on Mustique, the Caribbean island, and later at Malvern College. He divides his time between London and Montenegro.
Bloom has declined to comment. Both Cottrell and his lawyers have also been approached for comment. The FA will not respond while legal proceedings are in progress.
Does impossible really believe Bloom is punting down his local bookies?
My mate worked for him for a few years , he had to sign the equivalent of the official secrets Act 
he worked for this mob before joining Tony , I never asked him why he left , he posted on these Forums a few years back
I know he left on Good terms ,he did say it could be hard work on occasions long Hours , out of hours due to time zones
He didnt have a bad word to say about them ,, I never asked any more , he wasnt short of Dosh when he left
he worked for this mob before joining Tony , I never asked him why he left , he posted on these Forums a few years back
I know he left on Good terms ,he did say it could be hard work on occasions long Hours , out of hours due to time zones
He didnt have a bad word to say about them ,, I never asked any more , he wasnt short of Dosh when he left
Harry said the cleaners were mopping up.
Have a good day guys and gals.
Ronnie.
Have a good day guys and gals.
Ronnie.
600m profit a year .....who is laying these bets fort Knox ? way out of my understanding and not disputing the figgas but how would you stay afloat laying these bets ?
I’ve seen some heavy hitters in Scotland in my time,unfortunately all gone …..
One individual would think nothing about having 50 large on…..history !
One individual would think nothing about having 50 large on…..history !
50 large is one thing 600m profit ? what are the stakes and as said who or what corporation is standing these bets ,
Obviously some far flung country…..who flung dung ….
if he had a whopping 10% profit margin he have to stake £16.5 million every day.
most people with a nice profit margin are limited to 16.5p or less
most people with a nice profit margin are limited to 16.5p or less
agree ....by all accounts they are mainly winning bets .......when do you say ouch! enough is enough?
no matter how big or how much money you have behind you you cant take losses like that ...Shirley!
the Guardian have posted another article this pm. basically insinuates that betting syndicates 'buy' losing accounts from punters who they call beards or whales if they have racked up large losses. this enables them to place bets until such a time as the bookies realise what has occured. Interesting read.
Call me Moby. And drop me a grand. And my account is yours.
And drop me a grand. And my account is yours.
Did you not know that,gambas?
It's been going on for years.
The problem you have is if the degenerate loser takes the money back from his own A/C
It's been going on for years.
The problem you have is if the degenerate loser takes the money back from his own A/C
The professionals bend the rules to suit, and get away with mega £m profits annually. The recreational punters are copping it.
How'd it have happened? The bookies are supposed to be as "intelligent" as the Israeli Secret Service. Insiders and bungs offered perhaps.
How'd it have happened? The bookies are supposed to be as "intelligent" as the Israeli Secret Service. Insiders and bungs offered perhaps.
Honcho,the A/C has to be losing massive amounts to be viable
I guessed that. I was sarcastically referring to my recent performances.
uptheirons 05 Dec 25 16:23
Honcho,the A/C has to be losing massive amounts to be viable
Unless I'm missing something, surely the books would cotton on to a sudden change in behaviour and presumably fortune on the account and put a stop to it.
Honcho,the A/C has to be losing massive amounts to be viable
Unless I'm missing something, surely the books would cotton on to a sudden change in behaviour and presumably fortune on the account and put a stop to it.
no Duffy it would be hard for the bookies to get a handle on say football players bets as the stakes are erratic to say the least , that's the attraction.
Correct,duffy.
However,Bloom would not show a "Golden A/C".
However,Bloom would not show a "Golden A/C".
As most people do their gonads on the Soccer there is plenty to go around
Statement from Tony Bloom:
“Following an inaccurate and misleading report in The Guardian earlier this evening, I can categorically assure our supporters that I have not placed bets on any Brighton & Hove Albion matches since becoming the owner of the club in 2009.
In 2014, in addition to new rules on betting, The FA introduced a policy with quite onerous provisions for owners of football clubs with interests in betting. These provisions allow certain football club owners, including me, to continue to bet on football under strict conditions.
In particular, the policy prevents me from betting on any match or competition that Brighton & Hove Albion is involved in. Since 2014, I have always fully complied with these conditions, and all of my bets on football are audited by one of the world’s leading accounting firms on an annual basis to ensure full compliance with The FA’s policy.
Lawyers acting on my behalf have this evening directly contacted The Guardian to make my position on this entirely false allegation very clear. Separately, our club is in direct contact with both The Football Association and The Premier League regarding this matter.”
https://x.com/BrightonBuzzz/status/1997210786733621704?s=20
“Following an inaccurate and misleading report in The Guardian earlier this evening, I can categorically assure our supporters that I have not placed bets on any Brighton & Hove Albion matches since becoming the owner of the club in 2009.
In 2014, in addition to new rules on betting, The FA introduced a policy with quite onerous provisions for owners of football clubs with interests in betting. These provisions allow certain football club owners, including me, to continue to bet on football under strict conditions.
In particular, the policy prevents me from betting on any match or competition that Brighton & Hove Albion is involved in. Since 2014, I have always fully complied with these conditions, and all of my bets on football are audited by one of the world’s leading accounting firms on an annual basis to ensure full compliance with The FA’s policy.
Lawyers acting on my behalf have this evening directly contacted The Guardian to make my position on this entirely false allegation very clear. Separately, our club is in direct contact with both The Football Association and The Premier League regarding this matter.”
https://x.com/BrightonBuzzz/status/1997210786733621704?s=20
Not good enough for the likes of Quixall or shafter imvho!!! Nothing is acceptable less than a screenshot of a fake lifetime P&L with BF?
Acefoem is a nonentity of absolutely no consequence
Had him blocked for years. Puts his stick in the water, stirs up the mud and phucks the fishing.
Tbf irons, only shafter with the fake P&L!!! Quixall cannot comprehend so may zeros or bets on the even money certainty Tony tipped for the Cigar Mile at Aqueduct.
I wonder how much they got on, I managed £300 with PP tbh.
I wonder how much they got on, I managed £300 with PP tbh.
Double for Tyler and Tony but only £60 this time Quixall!!
A freebie from Tony Quixall, For Arrogate, Woodbine. GL
You hate it Quixall but try this Cabourg @ EVS Gulfstream, another from Tony, only one beaten so far?
Had £450 with PP and happy to show all proofs if you desire?
Had £450 with PP and happy to show all proofs if you desire?
Guardian reporters finding it hard to get in the
Amex.
Amex.
Mr Bloom may not have bet on his team but in total compliance with the strict regulation set out by our FA pertaining ownership of a football team. Let's hope his associates and syndicates were in total compliance too given Mr Bloom is the head honcho of the syndicates.
It will be interesting to see what Greg Wood the racing correspondent of The Guardian writes on this subject.
Greg lives in Brighton and supports the Albion but so far has not written a single word regarding this matter.
In the past Greg has written many excellent articles detailing Tony Bloom's success as a racehorse owner.
Greg Wood is also someone who understands the betting market as his latest excellent contribution about betting account closures and restrictions that are angering punters.(monday 8th December)
He is someone I would have thought would have a better understanding about all this than most.
Greg lives in Brighton and supports the Albion but so far has not written a single word regarding this matter.
In the past Greg has written many excellent articles detailing Tony Bloom's success as a racehorse owner.
Greg Wood is also someone who understands the betting market as his latest excellent contribution about betting account closures and restrictions that are angering punters.(monday 8th December)
He is someone I would have thought would have a better understanding about all this than most.
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