Could American football ever take off in the UK? Yesterday saw an NFL match between the New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins staged at London’s Wembley stadium - the first regular-season game ever to be held outside the US.
In a bid to increase popularity for the game overseas, National Football League owners voted last year to play 1 or 2 games outside the US every season for the next few years. Judging by ticket sales, which sold out in a matter of hours, they could be on to something.
As predicted, the Giants won 13-10, little surprise since the Dolphins seem to be on a losing streak, having lost their last seven games.
Explaining the game to unfamiliar Brits, one player described it like this, “Expect a lot of organised confusion with violent collisionsâ€.
The pre-match entertainment wowed the crowd, with stunning cheerleaders and rock music pumping up the stands – you certainly don’t get that in Premier League football.
Long ridiculed by Brits for their shoulderpads and WWF style bust-ups, it will take some marketing for American football to get off the ground here, in a country with such a strong football tradition. But as a novelty event, it was a huge success.
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Representatives of the popular online gambling website claim that they are able to, by reviewing information on wagers and winnings, identify suspicious betting activity. They are willing and able, they said, to pass this knowledge on to the proper authorities.
Belgian officials said that they were pleased by the cooperation of the popular online gambling website. If the website had not been so keen on helping the investigation, they said, the process would take much more time. It is in the interest of the popular online gambling site to help the authorities, in order to recover ill- gotten winnings from customers.
The Belgian soccer team Sint-Truiden aroused suspicion after losing two games against lower- ranked teams La Louviere and Cercle Brugge in late October and early November of last year, respectively. The popular gambling website alerted Belgian soccer and police authorities at the same time as the chairman of Sint-Truiden, Roland Duchatelet.
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