Other features include live updates indicating how the market is leaning on any particular wager, as well as a results page and betting suggestions from the site’s resident tipster, the classic cartoon character Andy Capp. Some observers might suggest it’s bad form to take any kind of advice from an unemployed alcoholic wife-beater, but hey, to each his own.
It seems you’re nobody in a UK newsagent’s unless you’ve got some form of online betting partnership. All of which makes us wonder when the reliably anti-gambling Daily Mail will swallow its pride and strike a deal with some online bookie. Of course, given the Mail’s virulent campaign against fixed-odds betting terminals – an article on Saturday (pictured) referred to the machines as “the crack cocaine of gambling” twice in three paragraphs – the Mail’s partner can’t have a high street presence. That would seem to make Bet365 an ideal candidate, except the company’s founders are ardent supporters of the Labour party and the Mail believes the Tories can do no wrong. Damn… Arranged marriages are hard.