Sport is made for betting

No surprise really, a sporting authority meddling in team affairs for the sake of it... Betclic hits out at UEFA shirt ban: 'no legal basis' BETCLIC chief executive Nicolas Béraud has hit out at UEFA’s refusal to let French football team Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) wear his company’s logo for tonight’s Champions League tie with Real Madrid, saying it has “no legal basis”. UEFA have banned Lyon from wearing shirts depicting BetClic as their sponsor, a deal they signed many months ago, because the French government are taking as long as physically possible to delay the enactment of local gambling regulations which are supposed to comply with European Union directives. Rather a big free kick for Bwin, sponsor of Real Madrid, tonight then....

Could this be the first of a few teams from the old Eastern Europe in trouble for match-fixing? Latvian Football Club Banned Following Betting Probe One of the top clubs in the Latvian football league, FC Dinaburg, have been banned for the rest of the season after the club's Prsident and head coach were found to have placed bets on the outcome of the team's matches following an investigation by the Latvian Football Federation and UEFA. Had it been in England , they probably would have received a pathetic slap on the wrist....