Gambling & football: Eight clubs, 130 miles & a mission to end sponsorship ‘blind spot’ – BBC Sport

Steve Ramsey gets his feet repaired at The Hawthorns At the peak of his addiction, Steve Ramsey was placing 500 bets on football a day. “It was the in-play betting that did me over,” he says, shortly after leaving Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Molineux ground on a 130-mile walk this week to highlight football’s relationship with gambling.…

We’re facing an insolvency tsunami. With luck, these changes will avert the worst of it – The Conversation AU

Ahead of the budget, the government has announced new rules that will allow small businesses at risk of collapse to continue to work out their problems instead of appointing an administrator. They are needed because of an avalanche of insolvencies awaiting the end of an effective moratorium on bankruptcies (a so-called regulatory shield) that expires…