2nds Port Adelaide vs Glenelg - Round 14 @ Alberton

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These games can be bet on right...surely when money is involved there's some sort of legal oversight?
God speed the day when we can leave this pissant league
(courtesy Four Corners)
"It's disturbing," said South Springvale Football Club president Jim Simos. The club's team plays in the fifth-tier Victorian State League 1 competition.
"There are people across the world that could be betting on our games that have got no idea who we are. There's got to be a limit to it."
The data scout, who declined to provide his name, works for Sportradar — a Swiss corporation that specialises in collecting live data at sporting events.
He wears a lanyard showing the governing body has given him accreditation to attend the game.

The back of a man sitting on a folding chair on the sideline of a soccer game. Players can be seen in the distance.

Data scouts like this man send live updates so punters around the world can bet on matches in real time.

Sportradar boasts a network of more than 5,000 scouts around the world, collecting data from almost a million sporting events every year.

The Nasdaq-listed company has deals with most of the major US sporting codes and generated almost $1.2 billion in revenue last year. It counts NBA icon Michael Jordan and billionaire Mark Cuban among its investors.
 

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Port really do get screwed by the umps week in and week out.

That last quarter especially you would have thought Glenelg were the Olympic diving team the way they piked into our player's backs. Not one free kick.
 

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