Football Addict

Hi , Footballlover

Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting. You are not alone in your addiction and there's always support and hope.

There are strategies we advise when stopping gambling you can self exclude from most online gambling by registering at www.gamstop.co.uk this self excludes you from many gambling websites .

You can also download blocking software onto devices that you have been gambling on by going to www.Gamban.com/gamcare  (this link currently has a free licence which covers a number of devices for upto 5 years)

In regards to football betting avoiding live matches and just watching highlights could be one technique. 

Please feel free to contact the GamCare Helpline on 0808 8020 133 or Netline to explore the additional support available to you. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week if you would like to talk to one of the GamCare HelpLine advisers.

All the best

Kirk 

Forum Admin 

Posted by: @footballlover

Hey,

New to GamCare and looking for like minded people to discuss football betting addiction. Really difficult to avoid as unlike casino gambling you feel like you're in control of your wins. How do you manage your love for football without viewing it as a means to make money. 

I couldn’t help scrolling by this without commenting. Betting and odds and probability in my opinion takes away from the pure beauty and artistry and passion of the sport and turns it into some mathematical machine that at the end of the day , who knows what can happen because as we know in football anything can happen. And for me that is the pure beauty of the game. Being able to sit back and enjoy the game for all it’s worth without being concerned on what the final score will be or corners or goals etc . That’s football . That’s the game I fell in love with that betting robbed .