A gambling support charity said it has seen the number of people contacting their service increase eight-fold since lockdown.
For many it is reason to celebrate, but for those with a gambling addiction the feast of sport on the horizon is a worrying prospect.Bray Ash, 27, is concerned about the affect the return of major sport will have on gambling addicts
"It's a quick fix, I want the money now. People have been furloughed or lost their jobs and have financial pressures they didn't expect to have. It means they might be more likely to do things like bet in play with sport."Could the return of sport, coupled with people's changing financial circumstance and the loneliness of lockdown, be a perfect storm?
"When I went to university it got worse," he said."I was not going to lectures but going to casinos. I could be spending hundreds, thousands of pounds a day. I remember one time I got my student loan and I gambled that away within 24 hours. While a YouGov survey indicated overall participation in gambling has decreased in lockdown, some engaged gamblers are spending more money in different ways. The fear is that this problem with be exacerbated by the return of sport.
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