Description:
Derek McGovern, former editor of the "Racing Post's" sports betting service, reveals the tricks of the trade. He explains why even the most polished bookmaking firms are vulnerable to crafty "after-timers" - punters who can get bets accepted after a match has finished. He details the sports which offer punters golden opportunities for making money and those which line only the bookmakers' pockets. He calls for a punters' day of action - a one-day betting strike - to force bookmakers to pay back the countless millions they steal from sports gamblers every year. The scale of violent betting-shop crime is addressed. McGovern offers his own opinions on tales of corruption and betting skulduggery that have scarred football and cricket in the secong half of the 1990s and hatches a plan to make money from betting on Premiership football. A chapter is devoted to the dos and don'ts of the twilight world.