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perspective , March 2019 . However , the inclusion of the latter doesn ’ t help with our understanding all that much seeing as it was clearly a bad month for bookmakers , with GGY at £ 85.5m compared with the lockdown-affected total one year later of £ 161m .
IMMEDIATE IMPACT
It is clear from the figures that the spring lockdown and nearcomplete shutdown of the sporting calendar was like shutting off a tap . Chart 14 on the previous page includes all betting – that is with both esports and virtual betting – and it shows the impact in stark terms .
And when both virtual sport and esports are taken out of the equation , the drop-off in betting is even more evident , as illustrated in Chart 15 .
In fact , in April the monthly total for the 80 % of the market represented in the figures was down 62 % month-on-month , or just over £ 99m . It turned out to be the worst month of the pandemic . By May , with the German Bundesliga returning mid-month , betting bounced back to £ 101.4m and then in June , when the English Premier League and horseracing resumed , betting totals recovered even further , rising to £ 217.9m .
There then came a lull in August , when there was a short break between seasons before the EPL and all the other main European leagues , as well as
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