Criminals have found a new scam for betting on the football & other sports
They take advantage of the relative shortness of the delay on a mobile phone compared with satellite tv to place bets on something which has already happened, such as the first offside ruling. A spotter in the ground texts the message to a bookmaker in a country which has only tv to rely on
I suppose it does not really count as a paradox that, the faster we can do things, the more critical become what would once have been unimaginably small delays
And to think that, until the railway came, people just lived by the sun's time
