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Martin Calladine Profile picture
@uglygame
Feb 23, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Congrats to Forest on their new sponsor, 6686.com, a gambling firm without even a working website and which is licenced, as they always are, through Isle of Man white label shop, TGP.
#NFFC
While the holding site claims it will serve UK punters, the name 6686, which is composed of numbers traditional regarded as lucky in China.
Strangely, thus far, Forest don't seem to have announced the deal. And there doesn't seem to be much available online to shed any light on this new partner.
However, there is also a website 6686.com.com, which appears to offer a heady mix of casino games, sports betting and semi-naked ladies. I don't know, at this stage, if they are related to 6686.com.
Still, who'd notice one more opaque, Asian-facing, loop-hole enabled, anonymous gambling company clinging like a parasitical worm to football's fat underbelly?
Intriguingly, while UK punters are directed to a website saying "coming soon", accessing 6686.com from some other countries redirects you 96686.app, suggesting perhaps that 6686 are in fact already operating in other countries.
One can only wonder why a legit gambling firm would claim to be launching soon, use TGP for anonymity, sign a partnership with a sport shown in territories where gambling is illegal, use a brand name with lucky Chinese numbers and then secretly redirect customers to its app.
A couple of little extras on Forest's new gambling partner 6686.com, which signed a deal with a UK club but has no functioning UK website. The company also signed a deal late last year with Lazio and has done some promotional films.
6686.com doesn't appear on Lazio's Italian or English language websites as a commercial partner. But it is on what appears to be the club's Chinese website, where it claims to be a Philippine-licensed betting company founded in 2011.

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