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Due to issues of legality, sports betting has always had a seedy reputation with the UK general public. All that gradually changed with the introduction of new betting legislation. Up until the late 1980s, most betting was done in dingy betting shops which littered high streets up and down the country. But a new look, coupled with more betting options, meant that sports betting slowly became more respectable. The final chapter to acceptance comes with the timely introduction of the internet.

Football pools betting, or "TOTO" as it's also well known as, has been around since the early 1920s. Originally it was solely dedicated to football betting, but as time passed, punters have used it in all sorts of modern sports as a means of "sharing" the prizes. The general idea is that you bet as an individual, but your wager goes into a shared "pool." Now if you happen to win, then the actual amount of your winnings will be dependent on the total number of punters in your pool.