Barely anyone outside the gambling world and the sports marketing industry had heard of TGP Europe (The Gaming Platform) before the Great Britain Gambling Commission announced last month that the Isle of Man-based company, which was threatened with a £3.3m fine for multiple violations of anti-money laundering regulations, had chosen to surrender all of its licences and exit the British market.
Yet the aftershock of this apparently inconsequential event was immediately felt throughout the football world, and nowhere more so than within the Premier League.
