Gregory Campbell describes gambling sponsorship of English Premier League clubs as ‘virtual epidemic’

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00:00Would you agree with me when she talks just now about preying on

00:04sometimes susceptible fans in terms of gambling that one of the big emerging problems in the past few years has been this virtual

00:13epidemic of gambling companies sponsoring almost every single

00:18Premier League team to the extent that young people

00:21Think and see their heroes as part of the gambling industry and that is compounding the problems that she's quite rightly

00:29Analyzing today

00:31well, I thank the honourable member for giving way and of course we could have a whole different debate on the influence of

00:38The gambling industry on football and I'm sure we will in future

00:41months in that area, but certainly today that link between

00:47clubs and professional players

00:49With or without their consent is actually being used to attract people to put money into into this