Yes, its a cheap jibe.
For those of you who dont know about all the William Hill/Playtech hoohaa, here is a direct cut and paste (hey, I dont get paid for writing this rubbish you know!);
“William Hill has sacked seven senior managers and several junior staff at its online betting joint-venture after discovering an alleged plan to set up a rival business.
Chief executive Ralph Topping became suspicious when the Tel Aviv office denied the bookie access to its computer systems
The bookmaker’s chief executive Ralph Topping is close to settling a dispute at William Hill Online (WHO), the venture 79pc-owned by the bookie and 21pc by Playtech.
Mr Topping has spent the past four days in Tel Aviv after most of the 180 staff walked out in the wake of the resignation of chief marketing officer Eyal Sanoff – an associate of Playtech’s 40pc shareholder Teddy Sagi. Copycat walkouts followed at WHO’s Bulgaria office and a Playtech business in Manila, where WHO is a major customer. All three businesses were once owned by Mr Sagi.
Mr Topping became suspicious when the Tel Aviv office refused to comply with an internal audit instigated by head office and denied the bookie access to its computer systems. After hiring ex-Israeli intelligence officers to go through the systems, the bookie claims to have found plans for a rival business and that a rabbi, fish feeder and hairdresser were on the books.
Mr Topping is also known to be livid over an alleged string of payments from the Tel Aviv business for table-tennis coaching for managers.
Plans for a rival business are alleged to have included proposals to set up offices in Belarus and Bulgaria.
Mr Topping met Playtech chief executive Mor Weizer over the weekend amid doubts over the working relationship between the two companies. The bookie has a call option to buy out Playtech’s stake in October 2013.
William Hill has installed Henry Birch, WHO’s chief executive, and Jim Mullen, its chief operating officer, in Tel Aviv for the next few months with a brief to change the culture of the business there. Mr Sanoff is alleged to have once told Mr Mullen that he only worked at WHO to “protect Teddy Sagi’s interests”.
Mr Topping, who returns for a board meeting today, would only say: “I’m absolutely furious but cannot comment further.”
It is believed William Hill spent about £2m on severance pay for the dismissed staff.”
Now, not withstanding the £2 MILLION payoff to 7 staff members, nor the full time fishfeeder on the books, TheBoyMitchell has been lucky enough to have been to the Tel Aviv offices (and was very well looked after it has to be said), and saw for himself the absolute love that the boys and girls there have for table tennis. And if you thought that the Adam Sandler film “You Dont Mess With the Zohan” was a work of fiction, I can tell you that the guys over there. make it look like a documentary.
So, judging from how the Playtech/William Hill deal seems to be going at the moment we just know that this is going to be the biggest selling toy over there this Chanukah.
