what happens when english football finishes ?
simon l asked:
when english football finishes what happens ? do the bookies like ladbrooks have foreign football teams to rely on ? and if so from where ?and what league ?
Xavier
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when english football finishes what happens ? do the bookies like ladbrooks have foreign football teams to rely on ? and if so from where ?and what league ?
Xavier
November 24th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Operations
Overall the largest betting company in the UK and largest retail bookmaker in the world, Ladbrokes owns over 2,200 retail betting shops divided between the UK, Ireland, Italy and Belgium. It also operates several online gambling websites offering sportsbook, poker, casino, games, bingo and backgammon. Ladbrokes uses the OpenBet system from Orbis Technology. Ladbrokes run the Albos screen system and EPOS from Alphameric.
Ladbrokes formerly owned Vernons. Founded in 1925, until the intervention of the National Lottery, Vernons concentrated on Football pools. The company also owns and operates two greyhound stadia at Crayford and Monmore.
Ladbrokes has recently gone into partnership with the Chinese government to offer the first betting shops in China betting on the state lottery.
The company came under fire in January 2009 from the Advertising Standards Authority due to complaints received relating to a recent advertising campaign. On October 2nd 2007 Ladbrokes became the first major bookmaker to advertise on national tv. In 2009 they have launched their ‘Bet British’ Campaign.
Chris Bell has worked for Ladbrokes since 1991 and became CEO in 2006, he is also chairman of the Bookmakers Committee.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
what? if you mean when the season finishes they all finish at the same time except for the russian and irish leagues.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Brian
in relation to betting sites the answer is that they will prioritise other sporting events until a new season for football starts