| Betting and gambling through sports has | | | | money for years, producing far better prize |
| become a major concern for our society today. | | | | money amounts for relatively low stake money. |
| It has become an issue of serious concern for | | | | Today a punt on the football pools or spot |
| the lawmakers on how to monitor and curtail | | | | the ball for a quid could win you thousands |
| unauthorized betting through sports. | | | | upon thousands. A bet on a horse cannot |
| Lawmakers have been thus penned down to make | | | | produce the same odds. This is perhaps a clue |
| tough new measures to crack down on | | | | to the nature of betting on a football. |
| corruption in sports related betting. Bets | | | | Complete change in the lifestyle for a stake |
| are placed on individual player's | | | | that he can afford to loose and demand for no |
| performances, the winning team, scores in the | | | | work in return is what allures an aspiring |
| game, etc. | | | | punter to football betting. This is the lure |
| | | | for many working class punters, both male and |
| Technology aids available | | | | female regardless of their taste for |
| | | | football. Football betting is the most |
| Today you can bet on the Internet, at | | | | appropriate technique to make money for those |
| casinos, through national lottery and also on | | | | who want to skip the hurdles and mushroom |
| cell phones. Growth of Internet betting | | | | their profits without taking any pains. |
| exchanges has made sports more vulnerable to | | | | |
| fraud and match fixing. Now betting is done | | | | Thus the lawmakers have called for various |
| with the help of GPRS technology, which is a | | | | sports governing bodies to have a say in the |
| more faster and reliable way for account | | | | type of bets offered to punters and to make |
| holders to place their bets. Users are | | | | bookmakers set up "audit-trails", something |
| charged for the volume of data rather than | | | | the new betting exchanges already do, to |
| the time spent using the service. But the | | | | allow suspicious betting patterns to be |
| police are now resorting to the use of | | | | traced. Lawmakers have also called for the |
| electronic surveillance techniques to track | | | | governing bodies of various sports to devise |
| down the alleged racket. | | | | common standards on who may bet on their |
| | | | sport, types of bets that can be placed on |
| Advantages over other sports | | | | the concerned sport and what the other |
| | | | logistics for placing a bet on their sport |
| Precisely betting on a football game has been | | | | should be. |
| an extremely popular form of winning big | | | | |