I READ with interest Adam Virgo’s comments on the betting culture in football (NLP, July 9).
It will be impossible to stop it. All a player has to do is get someone else to place a bet for him or open an account in a false name.
Maybe the way forward is to accept that players will place bets and to try and monitor this activity.
If the FA had a contract with one of the major betting firms and then allowed all players to have an account with that company, all activity would be monitored.
Ban players from betting on their own division or a division where they have a relative of course, ...