The Football Pools, an iconic Liverpool business, first started selling its coupons outside Old Trafford, home of fierce rivals Manchester United

On average we have a winner every 3 minutes

The Football Pools is the UK’s favourite football gaming brand

Pools, or tote betting, is the most popular legal form of sports-based betting outside of the UK

The global pools market in football and horseracing is worth $80 billion

We donated £600 million to help fund major improvements in stadium safety across many clubs in the UK

The global gaming market is worth $350 billion and growing +5% year on year

Sportech is one of the leading suppliers and operators of pools/tote betting in the world

Sportech has launched a Joint Venture in India

The biggest ever Football Pools top prize was £4 million won in March 2010

The Football Pools is the world’s oldest football gaming company

Across North America, Sportech Racing has a 50% market share in horseracing pools

We have a presence in over 30 countries

We have paid out over £10 billion in prize money to our customers

We are the exclusive operator of pools/tote betting on horseracing in the Netherlands

We are the leading provider of horseracing wagering solutions in North America with over 25,000 terminals

We process over $13 billion in bets every year

The Football Pools has over 500,000 players every week

Over the years we have donated over £1.1 billion to good causes

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Interim consolidated balance sheet
as at 30 June 2011

	Note	As at 30 June 2011 (Unaudited) £m	As at 30 June 2010 (Unaudited) £m	As at 31 December 2010 (Audited) £m
ASSETS
Non‑current assets
Goodwill		147.6	147.7	147.6
Intangible fixed assets	9	54.5	28.4	57.1
Property, plant and equipment	9	11.9	1.3	12.4
Trade and other receivables		—	—	0.1
Investment in joint venture		0.4	—	—
Retirement benefit assets	10	0.1	—	0.1
Deferred tax assets		2.9	4.0	4.1
		217.4	181.4	221.4
Current assets
Trade and other receivables		10.1	4.7	12.2
Inventories		1.5	—	1.0
Current tax receivable		—	0.1	—
Cash and cash equivalents	11	3.6	25.8	1.8
		15.2	30.6	15.0
TOTAL ASSETS		232.6	212.0	236.4
LIABILITIES
Current liabilities
Overdraft	11	(0.3)	—	(1.0)
Derivative financial instruments		(3.9)	(5.4)	(4.6)
Financial liabilities	13	(13.0)	(10.5)	(12.0)
Trade and other payables		(23.6)	(20.2)	(24.6)
Provisions	12	(0.6)	—	(0.7)
Current tax liabilities		(0.3)	(0.1)	(0.2)
		(41.7)	(36.2)	(43.1)
Net current liabilities		(26.5)	(5.6)	(28.1)
Non‑current liabilities
Financial liabilities	13	(61.1)	(67.0)	(66.5)
Share of net liabilities of joint venture	10	—	—	(0.1)
Retirement benefit liability		(0.8)	—	(0.8)
Provisions	12	(0.6)	—	(0.6)
Deferred tax liabilities		(0.6)	(0.2)	(0.6)
		(63.1)	(67.2)	(68.6)
TOTAL LIABILITIES		(104.8)	(103.4)	(111.7)
NET ASSETS		127.8	108.6	124.7

EQUITY
Ordinary shares		99.4	79.5	99.4
Share premium		20.7	20.7	20.7
Other reserves		1.9	1.0	1.6
Financial instrument reserve		(2.8)	(2.4)	(3.3)
Retained earnings		8.6	9.8	6.3
TOTAL EQUITY		127.8	108.6	124.7