Comments on: La Liga Over, Barca Winners, According To Betting Company.

By: Marco P.

Marco P. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:52:54 +0000

Kinda reminds me of the 2006-07 Serie A season I think it was, when SNAI (Italy’s betting agency) stopped taking bets on Inter winning the Scudetto like 10 matchdays before it all ended.

This story however, actually paying the customers outright has the publicity stunt stink all over it.

By: Gopal

Gopal — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:54:28 +0000

Well this is all crap..sheer publicity stunt..But well Barca are playing some breath-taking football… Lets see if Madrid can try and pip them to the race…

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By: Ak

Ak — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:25:44 +0000

…or they could just stop taking bets. This smacks of publicity stunt/opportunity to look stupid.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:41:13 +0000

Does seem like a bit of a jinx on Barca, but considering their quality this year, probably doesn’t matter much. Brooks’ point makes some sense, that they’d just want to cut off bets, but it seems like they could do that by just giving crappy odds on it.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:09:45 +0000

Every time a company does a stunt like this it always ends up that they get proved wrong.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:23:55 +0000

I just want Barca to lose a game so people will be quiet. And then I want them to lose more games so Real Madrid can come back and win :)

By: Brooks

Brooks — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:05:37 +0000

The Goal article on this said the reason for doing it may have been to get people to stop betting on Barca…you know, pay out now so you don’t have to pay out more later.

http://www.dirtytackle.net/2009/01/barca-win-the-league-says-bookmaker/

By: Ronald

Ronald — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:04:33 +0000

barely watch La Liga anyway. Besides watching Lyon, i usually just stick to Serie A football.