#BettingPeople Interview SPINNING MICK PUNSHON Racecourse Bookmaker 1/3
‘Spinning Mick’ has been in the on-course bookmaking game since 1987 when he was 14 years old. He’s now Chairman of ARB and a Director of the FRB heavily involved in bookmaking’s politics as well as earning his living from on-course bookmaking.
Part 1, Mick talks about an industry under pressure, bookmakers are being ‘attacked’ from a number of angles including public perception and banking as well as a increasingly cashless society. He talks about the difficulties in getting bookmakers to work together and speak as one voice.