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Is It a Right or a Privilege?

New talks and speculation in the United Kingdom could spell out some drastic changes for the online casino gambling and betting industries in the UK. The internet betting market has really surged in popularity in the past several years and now there is a growing trend for the major sports books to seek out sponsorship deals of the major teams in various sporting industries. The fact that the online betting companies are increasingly involved with the sporting teams on a close level has recently raised a lot of concerns over the continued preservation of integrity within the sporting industries. The online casinos and sports books are now linked with individual teams and have a vested interest in the success of said teams.

That means that match-fixing and corruption within the sport become an even bigger concern now. Before the prevalence of online casinos sponsoring the sporting teams there was enough distance between the betting companies and the teams themselves. That distance is now gone and the UK Sports Minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, has now opened up debate in the industry about whether offering bets on the teams is a right or a privilege for the sports books.

Sutcliffe is considering forcing the land and online casino bookmakers to pay a fee for the right to offer bets on the sporting teams and events. That fee would then be used to further police the industry and thoroughly follow up on any reports of suspicious betting patterns. There is no indication that this is actually going to happen, but Sutcliffe has put the discussion on the table for debate so it is surely a definite possibility.