West Ham fans were forced to sit on concrete steps during the Premier League opener against Bournemouth at the London Stadium, and West Ham’s FIFA star Sean “Dragonn” Allen involved in gambling scam row.

The first time I visited Old Trafford was to watch Manchester United v Tottenham in the 1980s. I got separated from my uncle in the Stretford End, never a good thing in a stadium filled with 60,000 fans, and the only place I could watch the match was sitting on the concrete steps in the aisle. The steward kept moving me because I was a fire hazard. It wasn’t a very memorable experience.

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So I have some sympathy for the West Ham fans eager to get their bum acquainted with their new seat in the 57,000 capacity London Stadium, who arrived to find that the seats still hadn’t been installed. A concrete step was all that awaited them. Fortunately, they weren’t deemed a fire hazard and were allowed to stand, or sit, as West Ham started Premier League life in their new home with a 1-0 win over Bournemouth.

Two-time World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring winner, Travell Thomas, is attempting to depose prosecutor Preet Bharara, on race charges, in his battle to avoid 40-years in prison over fraudulent debt collection agency scheme.

The double World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) gold ring winner, Travell Thomas, wants to see prosecutor Preet Bharara sent to the rail in his bid to fight charges that could see him playing his poker behind bars for the next 40-years.

The former poker player is one of 15 people who once made a lot of money working for a fraudulent debt collection agency allegedly using ‘coercive’ methods to extract $31m from thousands of victims between Jan 2010 and Nov 2014.

Thomas and his legal team are currently in court fighting the charges and they have announced that they would like a judge to depose Manhattan Attorney Preet Bharara because they believe the indictment is ‘racially motivated.’

If you can’t join them, beat them.

This is the new business tact of bingo club and casino operator Rank Group as the firm set its sights in becoming UK’s biggest multi-channel gaming operator after a failed bid to take over Britain’s largest sportsbook William Hill.

The Telegraph reported that Rank, owner of Mecca Bingo and Grosvenor Casinos, is focusing on upgrading its online poker and casino games, launching a new bingo brand, creating a VIP microsite for Mecca Bingo, and launching a Spanish blackjack and bingo website, Enracha.es.

“[We are] putting in place the building blocks to transform its business,” according to Rank Chief Executive Henry Birch, which was quoted by the news report.

Sports bettors in Vietnam will soon be able to indulge in their favorite pastime on a legal basis, as long as they don’t go over the $45 daily limit.

Finance officials are reportedly seeking the government’s approval to legalize sports betting in the country. A finance ministry official told Thanh Nien Sunday that the goal is to “legalize betting on certain international football matches to be decided by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.”

Under the proposal, people can bet on the match scores, number of red and yellow card given, among other things. The proposal was fashioned after a draft made in 2010 that proposed legalizing betting on both domestic and international football games.

“The regulation aims at keeping a careful eye on gamblers and step-by-step development to avoid regrettable consequences,” the finance official said.