Jack Anderson: Time for sports fans to cash out on excesses of modern gambling

Gambling today is a digital drug that we all carry in our pocket.

Certain -- not all -- unscrupulous, unregulated operators are only too willing to convert your late-night doomscroll into a doomspin of debt.

In the giddy build-up to the game against Czechia, the Irish media picked up on a criminal investigation in that country into 47 cases of suspected bribery and match-fixing involving an array of clubs, administrators, referees and players. 

The subtext from an Irish perspective was the hope that the Czechs might be distracted from the task at hand. They weren’t.