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