"Football pools" nghĩa là gì?

Đăng bởi lovebird21c - 14 Jul, 2016

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'Football pools' có từ pools là đặt cược (kết quả trận đấu bóng đá), mua tỉ số trận đấu bóng đá; vì thế từ này nghĩa là cá cược về kết quả trận đá bóng; cá độ (bóng đá).

Ví dụ

Prior to this, the only gambling ads allowed on TV were those for National Lottery products, bingo, and the football pools.

The football pools, in which players pick up to 12 matches they predict will finish in a draw, was launched in 1923 by the Liverpool-based Moores family.

The football pools, long the bedrock of Britain’s gambling industry, may be about to change hands after a company backed by the billionaire owner of London’s Camden Market confirmed it was interested in a takeover bid.

I grew up in a Philadelphia neighborhood heavily influenced by the Mafia. My best friend sold football pools for the mob family of “The Gentle Don,” Angelo Bruno, and my walk to high school took me past his house, where there were often federal agents parked outside, noting who came and went. (The Don went to his final reward not so gently, after a shotgun blast to the head outside that house in 1980.)

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