Neil Tolson

@spurssglobal Definitely shown potential.

🌟⚪️ Debuts in two different competitions within 4 days for Callum Olusesi, and both were impressive to say the least. Put more trust in the academy… 👀

🇦🇷🗣️ Marcelo Bielsa back in 2024: "I am sure that football is in a process of decline. It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore." "If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football." "For me, the introduction of technology (like VAR) does a lot of harm to football. This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal." "As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted." Do you agree with Marcelo? 😳

In this tragic case the article suggests Arthur Soames was a net winner in his Bet365 account. Everyone has been destracted by affordability checks thinking that is the answer. 'Mrs Soames said: “We believe the Gambling Commission should require operators to have a tailored risk-detection system for this age group, focusing more on frequency of bets, length of sessions and time of day when gambling is taking place, with night-time gambling being a high risk indicator, as opposed to amounts of money lost. ”' thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

@NeilForPoole Where is the evidence behind your proposal? What are the consequences of your proposal? How do you deal with each consequence? What is the economic cost? Where are the benefits?

Great news that greyhound racing will be banned in Wales! Pushing dogs to their limits for entertainment and profit leaves many with life‑changing injuries - and too often an early death. Westminster should follow suit and call the last lap on greyhound racing.

@Josh_DTM @mattzarb @cleanupgambling @gambanapp @GambleWithLives @GamRegGB Don’t care what I am labelled as from my profession I deal in cold facts and reality. Perception is something you need to change by actions. Certain the independent operators had a different view from Big Corp.

@NeilTolson @mattzarb @cleanupgambling @gambanapp @GambleWithLives @GamRegGB been supplanted by emotive arguments IMO - those arguments are extremely hard to counter as you get labelled as 'bought and paid for' or heartless if you just question the faulty premises they're built on.

This is where it can lead, and why I am so motivated to do something about it

@patricktyrant How was it the best thing to go out? We have no games after Sunday for 3 weeks. We can have a pre season before out next game.

The lads played well! 👏🏾 That was the best thing that coulda happened to us tonight-play well, WIN the game (but go out) & restore some pride/confidence in the fans & players alike... NOW take this form into Sundays game vs Forest which is a MASSIVE relegation 6 pointer! #COYS

@Josh_DTM @mattzarb @cleanupgambling @gambanapp @GambleWithLives At a loss that operators have held their hands up and let this happen. Why not attack @GamRegGB and the Anti Groups to highlight consequences of their proposals? Political correctness must be controlled by evidence based decision making and mgmt. and control of the delivery.

@NeilTolson @mattzarb @cleanupgambling @gambanapp @GambleWithLives but not punitive enough for operators to kick off in a big way. I don't personally think the levy is the worst idea in the world but it will most probably be a car crash because of how it will be administered.

@AKBets @nickluck The UK is run by a total bunch of incompetents at every level; the Peter Principle is alive and well. If you have the wrong person at the top, will they allow anyone better than them below them? Plus if you close down or restrict Growth how can initiative and development thrive?

Repeated across multiple industries. Restrict access to, and overtax, the regulated gambling market and demand doesn’t decrease it migrates. Gambling consumption is growing in the UK. Regulated Gambling consumption continues to decline/collapse. High School Economics.

@mattzarb @Josh_DTM @cleanupgambling @gambanapp @GambleWithLives Why do people listen to this grifter? What have they achieved by their impositions? Where is the evidence for any of their actions? 1% levy how was that calculated? Nothing has changed apart from grifters earning a good living, and bettors being adversely affected!

@Josh_DTM @cleanupgambling @gambanapp @GambleWithLives And what are your solutions? Mine haven’t even been implemented yet. Shall we keep things as they are and hope for the best instead?

@Cav_TRF The inevitably of moving towards industry SP’s. Expect it to get worse if the tax increases are finally imposed.

We're through the 2% barrier for UK overrounds in 2026 so far...

@chrisgambler247 Matt Zarb in clover again. That £20k he lost gambling as a teenager has proved to be a superb investment, when he can promote anti gambling and get these returns!

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@chrisgambler247 @geoffbanksbet @StuartAndrew Another total failure presided over by incompetents. There was no evidence to justify the decision; none of them realised what was required, and none of them understood the consequences. They just followed the perception line, and cost the economy hundreds of £m’s.

This is what former head of DCMS @StuartAndrew said in 2023 about the pilot on frictionless affordability checks. Now, as many predicted, frictionless checks have failed it is time to scrap the checks. £12bn a year in betting turnover is being lost.

@chrisgambler247 @geoffbanksbet @StuartAndrew Another total failure presided over by incompetents. There was no evidence to justify the decision; none of them realised what was required, and none of them understood the consequences. They just followed the perception line, and cost the economy 00’s of £m’s.

@mturner1961 Corruption in its element. They wanted Morocco to win the tournament, and now they have got their way. Disgraceful.

Ridiculous from #CAF over the #AFCON final and #Senegal. However, nothing can erase the sportsmanship of Sadio Mane on that day.

@tony_calvin Been going on since I started watching racing in the 60’s. The stewards appear incompetent at many levels, including understanding the form book to identify non triers; and the handicappers need to review their consistency of approach, and their methodology.

Columns such as this (and a consistently good one it is too, from Andrew) must make for uncomfortable reading for the BHA. We touched up on stepping-stone target training (as we saw again in Ireland yesterday) in the podcast on Monday (on 47 minutes).

@sxinhoi @Dixies60 @pjacobstipster What with?

As a palate cleanser for the Max Dowman goal, here's young Wayne Rooney scoring at @ Highbury...

@tony_calvin @HarryStewartMo1 The voice of reason.

A certain @HarryStewartMo1 was particularly brilliant on Queally-de Boinville (40 mins), Envoi Allen (60 mins), Fakenham (72 mins), Evan Williams (77 mins), JCR court case (84 mins) - everywhere really. But don't tell him.

The power of @racingoncourse

@TheAthleticFC @jaydmharris @JamesTMaw @PJBuckingham No.

It feels a fanciful notion - Harry Redknapp returning to Tottenham Hotspur, aged 79, having not managed for nine years and with a relegation battle to win. Yet many Spurs fans are having that conversation. Is there logic to it? @JamesTMaw and @PJBuckingham take up the debate ⬇️ 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/71166…