Why not? Although we are fans of a specific football club, basketball club, tennis player, or any others but when it comes to betting then we should put it aside.
Without a doubt, we will always want to see our favorite team/player win the game and if we bet on them then we will be get extra fun.
But betting on players or team that we like because we are fans but and we ignore the odds, it can be said as dumb bettor.
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Pardon me if this post or something similar have been created before now. Well this post was inspired by a news from Football Tweet on X concerning a Swansea City FC employee who got sacked for betting on the club he works in to lose for about 130 times. It's so unfortunate he lost his jobs, Well some people were in his support and claimed it's not his fault for the club to keep losing and the man was only trying to make extra cash, while there were others who claimed it was betrayal and he should've supported the club as a true fan. Left for me, I feel he's not a fan of the club and just an employee and I'll do same if I were not a fan of the club I work for moreover the club kept losing and he seized the opportunity to make extra cash from their misfortune. Well I never betted against the club i support I'll rather bet on other matches. However this brings us back to the question, would you bet against the club you support ?
To be honest with you, being an employee in a football club requires that you give your all in both support and service, he did very wrong betting against a club that pays him his salary, it's a very bad practice and If I was the management of the club, I would also have sacked him, his betting against the club he is working for simply means he doesn't wish the club to succeed.Well, the above scenerio is very much different from simply supporting a club though, and for me, I will gladly bet against the club I support if they are going to be facing a stronger opponent that I am very sure will beat them.
One thing we must understand is that money is the important factor here, the club I support isn't paying me for supporting them, so, I will rather put my money where I know it will yield profit for me, or if I feel too emotional about it, I simply won't bet.
If your focus in betting is earning money, then you should definitely bet against the club you support when odds are against it. But it is different if you bet just for fun, because in that case you'll be tempted to bet for your club even if it's not the favorite. And if after all you win against all odds, reward would be double 
It should be due to some kind of terms that restricts anyone involved with the club from support any club in any form which might include betting as well but as individual's point of view the term might seems to be absurd but on a professional level this is the right thing. Anyhow as an individual I bet against my favourite franchise because at the end of the day we have to think rationally not emotional. After all, we are staking our own money and no one is giving us free money to bet so it's not a sin to be a fan of one club and bet against the club if the odds are not in favor or just skip that game.
No matter the terms and conditions, I think we can always bet in support or against any club that we want even though it's our favorite club. Even though we have terms or a contract with a particular club, we need to be wise and take every opportunity we see to make money for ourselves. I would always bet against my team if I noticed that they are not doing well and if I bet in support I may not make money, I will have to option than to go for the money then if I eventually win, I could use the money to take care of my follow fans and have a good time. The money need to be made for us for to keep enjoying.As an Individual is not involved with the club directly can chose to bet against or support of their club.
Well I never betted against the club i support I'll rather bet on other matches. However this brings us back to the question, would you bet against the club you support ?
We have our preferences and choices but I have no problem betting against my favorite provided that my team has no way to win the game their chances are very slim and there is a taker of my bet, I've done this many times in the past, you will feel guilty on the first settings but the succeeding bet you will be ok.
Hey, that's extra money you have been losing a lot give yourself a break even at the expense of the team you are supporting, the team that you support doesn't care if you win or lose and if your favorite is up against a team that they have a chance to beat even if it is slim then you can go all out.
There are fans who place bets on the opposed teams, they mean it to stay relieve whatever the result in the end. They trick their own mood to stay happy as they win the bet if their favorite team lose or they will still happy if the bets lose because their favorite teams win. This may be a unique experience, but it's common to happen among sport fans.
It should be due to some kind of terms that restricts anyone involved with the club from support any club in any form which might include betting as well but as individual's point of view the term might seems to be absurd but on a professional level this is the right thing. Anyhow as an individual I bet against my favourite franchise because at the end of the day we have to think rationally not emotional. After all, we are staking our own money and no one is giving us free money to bet so it's not a sin to be a fan of one club and bet against the club if the odds are not in favor or just skip that game.
No matter the terms and conditions, I think we can always bet in support or against any club that we want even though it's our favorite club. Even though we have terms or a contract with a particular club, we need to be wise and take every opportunity we see to make money for ourselves. I would always bet against my team if I noticed that they are not doing well and if I bet in support I may not make money, I will have to option than to go for the money then if I eventually win, I could use the money to take care of my follow fans and have a good time. The money need to be made for us for to keep enjoying.
It should be due to some kind of terms that restricts anyone involved with the club from support any club in any form which might include betting as well but as individual's point of view the term might seems to be absurd but on a professional level this is the right thing. Anyhow as an individual I bet against my favourite franchise because at the end of the day we have to think rationally not emotional. After all, we are staking our own money and no one is giving us free money to bet so it's not a sin to be a fan of one club and bet against the club if the odds are not in favor or just skip that game.
Well I never betted against the club i support I'll rather bet on other matches. However this brings us back to the question, would you bet against the club you support ?
We have our preferences and choices but I have no problem betting against my favorite provided that my team has no way to win the game their chances are very slim and there is a taker of my bet, I've done this many times in the past, you will feel guilty on the first settings but the succeeding bet you will be ok.
Hey, that's extra money you have been losing a lot give yourself a break even at the expense of the team you are supporting, the team that you support doesn't care if you win or lose and if your favorite is up against a team that they have a chance to beat even if it is slim then you can go all out.
Yes, I would bet against the club I support or am a fan of. The thing is, it's not bad to be loyal to the club or team you want; that's normal, but when it comes to betting, you should be rational and think straight. If you know your club or the club you are supporting has a big chance of losing, will you still bet on it? If yes, then what's the point of betting? You are just wasting your money and time. In short, a gambler should be rational in their thinking; they should pick the club that has the higher chance of winning. If you know your club that you support doesn't do well, then it's okay to bet on the opposing team because the gambler will want to bet even though they know or are sure they will lose. Learn to become rational and know what to prioritise.
Pardon me if this post or something similar have been created before now. Well this post was inspired by a news from Football Tweet on X concerning a Swansea City FC employee who got sacked for betting on the club he works in to lose for about 130 times. It's so unfortunate he lost his jobs, Well some people were in his support and claimed it's not his fault for the club to keep losing and the man was only trying to make extra cash, while there were others who claimed it was betrayal and he should've supported the club as a true fan. Left for me, I feel he's not a fan of the club and just an employee and I'll do same if I were not a fan of the club I work for moreover the club kept losing and he seized the opportunity to make extra cash from their misfortune. Well I never betted against the club i support I'll rather bet on other matches. However this brings us back to the question, would you bet against the club you support ?
I don't see any form of betrayal in this story because even fans sometimes gets to bet against the team they support, but then if it were possible he would have just avoided betting in that game, the truth is, the casinos is never going to consider the fact that you were trying to stay loyal to your team and so you bet against them and if they lose they refund u, they will definitely take your money and you will be loosing on two sides, so if you know they will lose , in order not to loose your funds to the casino aswell, it will be better your bet against them and make that extra cash.The casinos do not know loyalist of any team so what ever bet you place, they are going to take judgment based on that which was the outcome of the game in the end, except you are gambling for final nd using it as a way of showing loyalty then you can go ahead and place a bet in support of your team even when you know how much they cannot be able to win.
Pardon me if this post or something similar have been created before now. Well this post was inspired by a news from Football Tweet on X concerning a Swansea City FC employee who got sacked for betting on the club he works in to lose for about 130 times. It's so unfortunate he lost his jobs, Well some people were in his support and claimed it's not his fault for the club to keep losing and the man was only trying to make extra cash, while there were others who claimed it was betrayal and he should've supported the club as a true fan. Left for me, I feel he's not a fan of the club and just an employee and I'll do same if I were not a fan of the club I work for moreover the club kept losing and he seized the opportunity to make extra cash from their misfortune. Well I never betted against the club i support I'll rather bet on other matches. However this brings us back to the question, would you bet against the club you support ?
When placing sports bets, we leave feelings aside, even when we are placing bets for fun. This is because when we are facing a football game, we start to analyze the two teams, we look at all the available data and according to the available data, it clearly shows that the team we support will lose, so we should not challenge this logic of analysis that we made of the two teams to bet on the team we support even though we see that the team we support will lose the game, that doesn't make any sense
For example, a person likes Dortmund, so Dortmund will play against Real Madrid. This person analyzes the two teams and sees that the difference in quality between these two teams is very large, the bookmakers are giving an advantage to Real Madrid, also when you look at the performance history of both teams in this competition and you realize Real Madrid has done much better and has a coach who knows this competition very well, so it doesn't make sense for this Dortmund fan to bet on Dortmund's victory, in the case of this op story, it also doesn't make sense for them to fire the guy, because I highly doubt that his employment contract prohibited him from being free to bet on whoever he wanted
Of course, for me the question is silly. If I saw a good opportunity, that for my knowledge I believed that the odds I was given are profitable in the long term if my club loses, of course I would bet, but it is not that I have a great emotional attachment, which I guess is what can happen to anyone who raises the dilemma.
Pardon me if this post or something similar have been created before now. Well this post was inspired by a news from Football Tweet on X concerning a Swansea City FC employee who got sacked for betting on the club he works in to lose for about 130 times. It's so unfortunate he lost his jobs, Well some people were in his support and claimed it's not his fault for the club to keep losing and the man was only trying to make extra cash, while there were others who claimed it was betrayal and he should've supported the club as a true fan. Left for me, I feel he's not a fan of the club and just an employee and I'll do same if I were not a fan of the club I work for moreover the club kept losing and he seized the opportunity to make extra cash from their misfortune. Well I never betted against the club i support I'll rather bet on other matches. However this brings us back to the question, would you bet against the club you support ?
Basically almost everyone who bets wants to make money, not lose, so it is very natural to choose which side makes us sure we will win, but sometimes we need to know that we cannot place bets on everything, for example like the employee you mentioned that and it is natural that he was fired from his job because when he has done that in my opinion it is the same as embarrassing his club in public so that when the club's supporters see this action they will think that the club they love is not worthy of their support. 
However this brings us back to the question, would you bet against the club you support ?
Why not it is an opportunity to make a profit if the odds are too high and your club has no chance of winning against its opponent your club will not give you money so think about your chances to make additional money for yourself and your family.
Betting against your club because they do not have a chance to win cannot be called betrayal because you can still support your club if it is the favorite or if it has a chance to win or upset the other team.
The man is working in a club and betting against the gamble. I am not working as an employee in any club and this makes it different. If there is no rules that I can or can not bet against the club that I am employed, why not bet against them if you analyzed and think that the club will lose. I can do it. But provided if not against the rules. As the man is sacked, I think it is against the club rules for a worker to bet against them.
I personally do it a lot especially when it's vividly clear that my club can't win the game. Infact why it is called gamble? Well I suppose its all about prediction and speculation and when it has to do with your money I believe you can make an exception and forget about the act of been stick that it's your club and you shouldn't bet against them well let me make this even clear, I have a reason to believe that even a club owner sometimes bet against his club when he speculates they will lose in angle to be checked. 
There are times I really do especially if the disadvantage perhaps the star players on my favoured team won't be able to play for that game, nothing's personal actually. If you're a fan then you could still be one even if you bet on the opposing team simply because that's another concern whether you are losing your bet or not Well I do understand that some would still be pushing their biased team regardless of what disadvantage there is simply because it is them being a fan and them showing their passion.
There's a friend of mine as well who will not be betting on his team if the opponent team is at an advantage and it is for me both being a fan and being someone practical and logical. You could really do anything; you could be a straight up fan or a simple gambler who would be in favour of which team is most likely to generate profit.
There's a friend of mine as well who will not be betting on his team if the opponent team is at an advantage and it is for me both being a fan and being someone practical and logical. You could really do anything; you could be a straight up fan or a simple gambler who would be in favour of which team is most likely to generate profit.
Would you bet against the club you support?
We can be fanatical about clubs, players, referees, coaches and so on in the world of sports, especially football, but that doesn't mean that the club we like can be used as a reason to rely on it in gambling or vice versa.Gambling is still gambling, betting is still betting, the opponent's strength in betting must also be taken into consideration, it concerns money, miscalculations and placing bets can result in money being lost, fanaticism is fine, If the opposing club and players are better than our favorite club and it's hard to lose, why keep the club, instead place a bet against our favorite club, that's a professional and normal thing in the world of gambling.
It's clear that donkeys are inferior to horses, why should you stick to donkeys, opponents, except: donkeys vs. Goats, that's another story, gambling is cruel, so think wisely before betting.
Yeah, this kind of thread has been posted before. I feel bad for that employee who gambled against his team and the company that he works for.
IMHO, if you're part of the company, it's normal to support them all the way. But if it's about betting, the company doesn't have jurisdiction about it unless you're entirely part of the club that plays on the field.
And if I am a supporter, I typically do bet against the team that I support if I think that there's some handicap that will make them lose and it's normal.
The main question is:IMHO, if you're part of the company, it's normal to support them all the way. But if it's about betting, the company doesn't have jurisdiction about it unless you're entirely part of the club that plays on the field.
And if I am a supporter, I typically do bet against the team that I support if I think that there's some handicap that will make them lose and it's normal.
Why we are making a bet in the first place? of course to make money on which it would really be just that understandable that if you do see up the chance that the team you are working on would lose then
why you would be forcing up yourself on placing your bets on them? Its your money and they dont have the rights on telling you on whom you would really be betting or where you do place your bet on.
Also, you wont really be that tactful about on the bets you are making into the team.It wont really be that just that ethical if you do ask me and it would be better that you should be betting in silent
and then winning in silence.
I dont really believe that you would be betting your own money into something that you do know that it does have that less chance of winning. Its part of our betting on having that
analysis on which you would really be needing up to consider on who do have that more winning chance which its common sense on where we would really be putting our
bets on.
I am a gambler does not mean that if I see a sure bet against my club to lose, that I will not take advantage of that bet, because it is fun to see that you win your bet. If it was in the rules of the club that an employee working for a club should not place a bet against the club, then that employee went wrong and deserves to be fired.
However, if it was not in their rules, I don't see it as any problem because he is only gambling and a gambler has the right to bet on whichever club he thinks is cool to put his money on. I always bet against my club if they are the underdog.
However, if it was not in their rules, I don't see it as any problem because he is only gambling and a gambler has the right to bet on whichever club he thinks is cool to put his money on. I always bet against my club if they are the underdog.
This should be the case, there is no harm in placing bets outside of work, if there is no prior agreement, it is human for everyone to want to make a profit in everything, including gambling against the club they support, especially since the club they support always loses.
Pardon me if this post or something similar have been created before now. Well this post was inspired by a news from Football Tweet on X concerning a Swansea City FC employee who got sacked for betting on the club he works in to lose for about 130 times. It's so unfortunate he lost his jobs, Well some people were in his support and claimed it's not his fault for the club to keep losing and the man was only trying to make extra cash, while there were others who claimed it was betrayal and he should've supported the club as a true fan. Left for me, I feel he's not a fan of the club and just an employee and I'll do same if I were not a fan of the club I work for moreover the club kept losing and he seized the opportunity to make extra cash from their misfortune. Well I never betted against the club i support I'll rather bet on other matches. However this brings us back to the question, would you bet against the club you support ?
This situation is different and he deserved to be sack and not because he bet against the company to lose but because in most cases# it's against a company policy to bet with their company. Haven't you see clubs suspended their players for using their own clubs to bets? It's against the sport rule to bet with your own club because your bets might influence your efforts in the field, imagine betting that your team will lose in a match and you are playing in that match, there is high tendency that you might not perform very well in that match.
If you check that employee very well, don't be surprised that his part of the team either as a support crew members or something important to the team, there effort also determines how the club would come out in any match, now imagine if the employee hasn't been doing his work perfectly and still betting that the club would lose their match, no club would take that with any form of leniency.
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