Month: December 2025

The African Cup of Nations gets underway in a couple of weeks time with the opening fixture being on the 21st December and draws to an end with the final on the 18th January. The ACON was founded in 1957 and is the premier football tournament in Africa showcasing the continent’s extraordinary football talent, cultural diversity and unifying spirit. AFCON began modestly, with only…

This year the Boxing Day fixtures aren’t jam packed due to it falling on a Friday this year, nevertheless the one fixture from the top flight of English football has always been one that has been a goalfest. Manchester United welcome Newcastle to Old Trafford for an evening fixture. The two sides came head to head in Manchester over the festive period last season…

This year Horse Racing enthusiasts have no fewer than nine meetings on Boxing Day. We will give you a run down of each one but going into more detail of the bigger prize money races.  We will look at Kempton where we have three Grade 1 races, we have the Ladbrokes King George Chase run over three miles (£142k to the winner). As it…

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After weeks of speculation in the gambling industry the UK’s 2025 Budget was announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, which delivered a mixed result for the British Racing Industry. While the government pushed forward with big tax rises on online gaming and most forms of remote betting it carefully carved horse racing out of those increases. It said it was keeping the betting duty on…

The UK Gambling Commission has now lifted the operating licence suspension implemented earlier this month on VGC Leeds which is the operator of Victoria Gate Casino in Leeds. The GC determined the venue had taken substantial steps to address the serious failings in its anti-money laundering and compliance framework since the ban. The suspension was initially introduced following the discovery of significant breaches in…

Great Britain’s Gambling Commission has moved to suspend the operating licences of Deadheat Racing with ongoing investigations into suspected failures related to social responsibility and anti-money laundering (AML) laws. The suspension, which will take immediate effect, applies to both the operator’s remote as well as non-remote betting licences. Deadheat Racing which has its headquarters in London has held these licences since January 2015. According…

Evoke owned betting giant William Hill has announced a major retreat from international operations after confirmation of its withdrawals from 13 countries starting on the 2nd December. It was announced that 10 of these markets are in Africa which marks one of the company’s most significant regional retreats in recent years. People that hold accounts in Angola, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal,…

Arsenal remains one of the most historical clubs in English football, but it has now been over two decades since they last had their name on the Premier League trophy. Their most recent triumph came back in the 2003–04 season, an achievement immortalised in football history as The Invincibles. Back then Arsenal were managed by Arsène Wenger with the side completing the entire league…