Hong Kong Football Association chairman Brian Leung Hung-tak appealed to local authorities to relax betting rules and allow more top-quality matches into the market. This could boost the game in the country with English Premier League clubs in Hong Kong for its pre-season Asia Cup. Leung’s call for new rules is driven by the potential financial benefits of allowing local betting on games between overseas teams in the city. This in itself would be controversial as staging games for betting purposes only would open the sport, already fighting a battle against match-fixers, to more ethical questions and potential corruption. In…

This Week in Gambling – For football (soccer) fans in Europe the summer months can be a long, slow wait for the action to start. With no major international competition to sustain them over the summer of 2013 it has been particularly bad but we are now, finally, getting close to kick-off time. There are so many betting options when it comes to the Premier League that there really is something for everyone. A great season-long bet can provide nine months of excitement and interest – assuming you make a decent bet – whilst those looking for some faster action…