The Telegraph  – The Football Pools date back to 1923 when coupons were first sold to Manchester United fans outside Old Trafford. Despite a sharp decline in popularity during the nineties, they are still played by as many as 500,000 people a year. Sportech revealed on Thursday it has signed a revenue-sharing agreement with France-Pari, which will allow the French to bet both on their own league games but also the English Premier League. Outside of Britain, the Football Pools are played in a number of small countries such as the Seychelles and the Mauritius but France would be a…