As we all know that Hong Kong was the colony of Britain for 99 years, Britain government introduced their moral standards and made use on the policy-making in Hong Kong. First we can focus on those regulations about the gambling in Hong Kong, we can see that mahjong, and horse races and the lottery were legalized for a certain year. This kind of regulations promotes the gambling to the public, gambling finally immerse to the life of Hong Kong people.

In recent years, gambling in football is widely spread throughout Europe, so are Japan and Singapore. This phenomenon shows that gambling in football is increasing all around the world. Those people who would like to gamble will want to take part in it, but there is no material for them to link with those betting shops or organizations, the only way is that they would

While Government legalize gambling on football matches, it would give the public more chances to participate in gambling activities. As we can see there is not a large population who are participate in illegal football gambling now, people do have to take a risk to gamble with the illegal bookmakers, what for? I think there should be an attractive prize of value for them. Because all the illegal football gambling are not controlled by the Hong Kong government, therefore no taxes should be collected, also with a greater prize, it's very attractive already, but it still only be a small population, why? I think the reason is majority of people aware of the risk, also and the difficulty to participate in such gambling activities because of no clear guidelines. Therefore I can say the legalization of gambling in football wouldn't eliminate the number of illegal gambling, it will just promote the gambling activities because easier to participate and they have rights to do so.

Nowadays, the bookmakers and football gambling through the internet is very efficient, Jockey Club claimed that the number of gamble through Jockey Club is decreased by 17%. And there is 10 millions of dollars are operating in illegal football gambling industry. (Tin pak Chun, 2001)

Graham,S., Tom K.(1997). Gambling on goals, a Century of football betting. Mainstream Publishing Company ltd.

Whether or not legalizing football gambling in HK has become a very popular topic over the past few months. Different voices have been heard from the public. For those who oppose the motion simply can't see the necessity to legalize football gambling.

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