Named and shamed: the A-listers – and football clubs – making millions from online gambling’s misery
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Adverts for betting firms have become commonplace in football and campaigners fear a Government u-turn could leave young fans at risk.
By Peter Stanford
It was seeing the names of betting companies on the shirts of the Tottenham Hotspur players he idolised as a teenager that first got James Grimes into gambling. That and the firms’ logos all round the ground when he went there on Saturdays.
‘It normalised it for me,’ says the former addict whose campaign, The Big Step, aims to sever the link ...
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