{"id":70125,"date":"2021-01-22T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=70125"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:00","slug":"burton-chadwick-bond-and-widdop-sports-betting-the-contrasting-trajectories-of-a-controversial-sponsorship-in-european-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/01\/burton-chadwick-bond-and-widdop-sports-betting-the-contrasting-trajectories-of-a-controversial-sponsorship-in-european-football\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON, CHADWICK, BOND and WIDDOP: Sports betting: the contrasting trajectories of a controversial sponsorship in European football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Burton, Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Brock University; Simon Chadwick, Global Director of Eurasian Sport and Professor of the Eurasian Sport Industry at Emlyon Business School; Alexander Bond, Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University; and Paul Widdop, Research Fellow in Consumption at Leeds Beckett University, had a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/paris-sportifs-les-trajectoires-contrastees-dun-sponsoring-controverse-dans-le-football-europeen-153336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French-language piece<\/a> recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.ca\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=https:\/\/theconversation.com\/paris-sportifs-les-trajectoires-contrastees-dun-sponsoring-controverse-dans-le-football-europeen-153336&amp;prev=search&amp;pto=aue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the rise in sponsorship of major European sports clubs by gambling companies.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn Europe, the sponsorship sector represents around 25.70 billion euros, of which\u00a080 to 90 per cent is generally devoted to expenditure in sport.\u00a0In addition, some estimates suggest that around 50 per cent of this spending is spent on football.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In recent years, we have witnessed a rise in the sponsorship of major European clubs by gambling companies, many of which are associated with online platforms, which has generated considerable\u00a0controversy.\u00a0Some observers believe that there are links between sponsorship, gambling, addictive behaviour, debt and public health problems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As a result, in some countries authorities are taking steps to regulate or ban this form of sponsorship.\u00a0For clubs, this could be problematic, creating a shortfall while the health crisis is already strongly affecting their resources (loss of ticketing, renegotiations of\u00a0TV rights in France\u00a0, etc.)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the original version of the article in French <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/paris-sportifs-les-trajectoires-contrastees-dun-sponsoring-controverse-dans-le-football-europeen-153336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the translated version of the article <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.ca\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=https:\/\/theconversation.com\/paris-sportifs-les-trajectoires-contrastees-dun-sponsoring-controverse-dans-le-football-europeen-153336&amp;prev=search&amp;pto=aue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Burton, Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Brock University; Simon Chadwick, Global Director of Eurasian Sport and Professor of the Eurasian Sport Industry at Emlyon Business School; Alexander Bond, Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University; and Paul Widdop, Research Fellow in Consumption at Leeds Beckett University, had a French-language piece recently published in The Conversation about the rise in sponsorship of major European sports clubs by gambling companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6],"tags":[4753,9894,57,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70126,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70125\/revisions\/70126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}