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Club sceptical as Crowe pushes for pokies ban

NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia -- As reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "The celebrity co-owners of the South Sydney football club are putting forward a radical proposal for gambling-obsessed New South Wales.

"Actor Russell Crowe and businessman Peter Holmes a Court say they want to get rid of their club's 160 poker machines because they are worried about the social cost of gambling.

"...It's a lucrative business, so when the owner of a football club suggests that the associated leagues club could do without pokies, directors get nervous.

"...Mr Crowe and Mr Holmes a Court have transformed South Sydney after buying the football club last year..."

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