That’s more than Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar made together. Lloyd Griffith, who presented this show, noted that the world’s best paid woman, Bet365’s Denise Coates CBE, earned £265m last year (as the Guardian reported, if you stacked that sum in new £50 notes, it would be almost twice as high as the Shard). And why shouldn’t we? They have been mugging us off for years effectively by taxing stupidity at exorbitant rates, using Ray Winstone to sucker us into addictions that can result in house repossession, divorce and even suicide, and breaking ads rules on targeting children while paying themselves silly money.
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to mug off the bookies.
If you are suspected of engaging in this form of non-illegal cheating, called courtsiding, you will not only lose your strawberry and cream privileges, but be invited by security to leave (hence the hair-earpiece trick).
