Since Betfair launched an app for the iphone, other sites have been exploring the possibility of an app for the new device. So the future will see people frantically swishing their finger across a tablet as opposed to sitting with those hardened souls in the betting shops, where a pen and paper’s all that’s needed. Surely it’s just gone full circle though. The Romans betting on chariot racing on wax tablet betting slips, they should be demanding royalty’s. Now just to retrace that Roman ancestry. Read more.