"Shouldn't there be a law to prevent online bookies from taking bets from people who are drunk?" asks a £50-lighter Skin Head in Japan.
The independent bookies from the race tracks could take bets on next transfers, maybe move the summer deadline day to Wembley stadium, only Sky is the limit".
The 2003 Cheltenham Festival was a bad one for the bookies from start to finish, but possibly the lowest ebb for the layers was when Martin's hurdler Xenophon, the 4-1 favourite, came home clear in the Coral Cup.
Ced's point was that banning legal betting on college sports would not only send a clear zero-tolerance message, it would also prevent illegal bookies from going to Las Vegas to lay off or hedge their bets.
He says it was a time of clandestine sex in closets, a movie-star mistress of the publisher sashaying about and two tough bookies from Hell's Kitchen at a corner desk taking bets as "wads of bills peeked from their pockets".
Racing will also be concerned that any compromise proposal that imposed an early-evening cut-off point for gambling adverts would bar bookies from advertising during terrestrial racing coverage, but leave much of the televised Premier League and Champions League football schedule on Sky Sports and BT Sport relatively unaffected.
Most of the testimony on Friday was from aging Boston bookies from the 70s and 80s detailing how Bulger and his crew shook them all down with iron fists.
Because a decade later the evidence of damage, especially in poorer areas, is obvious, as is the size of the bookies' profits from them and their £200m advertising budget, much of it on cheap TV.
A Little Life was the bookies' favourite from the start, and would have made Yanagihara the first American winner of a prize that was associated with British and Commonwealth fiction for more than 40 years.
See if you agree with the bookies' favourites from tonight's semi-final: Romania Paula Seling and OVI's "Miracle" will be far from one for many viewers, but this song is at least about something happy, unlike several of the other entries (we're looking at you, Hungary).
