Excellent by @[email protected] on #Gambling. "Betting is the opposite of sport. If you need to bet to watch or chat or banter about sport, then you don’t really like sport. All you’re doing is guessing at an outcome you don’t care enough about otherwise." www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Gambling is easy, right? Wrong...
Gambling is easy, right? Wrong: it turns out betting on sport is designed to disturb you

Could I turn £10 into £1,000? I thought I could but was undone by the harsh reality and lost a little bit of my soul along the way

The Guardian