Does ‘Piegate’ show that Football has a gambling problem?

Who knew that a non-league footballer eating a pie on live TV would catapult British football into a crisis about its relationship with betting brands?
It certainly is a funny old game. But ‘piegate’ does raise some serious questions that I’ve been asking myself for some time – mainly, isn’t it time that football reduced its dependence on money from the gambling companies?
The problem has been building since 2005, when the Gambling Act allowed betting brands on tele