Manchester United, with prompting by the Glazers, are to play a pre-season friendly in the South East Asian gambling haven of Macau. The important event that they will be celebrating is the opening of the world's largest casino - the Venetian Macau.
Liverpool (with a nudge from Hicks and Gillett), Portsmouth (thanks to Gaydamek) and Fulham (pushed by Al-Fayed) are to be the English teams in the Hong Kong pre-season televised tournament. Well, there's no chance of this being a fiddled event then.
With Chelsea's Kenyon spending an increasing amount of time in Asia, the Premiership teams with serious ownership are gearing up for their gambling nirvana.
Bizarrely but unsurprisingly, the clubs announcing a migration to Asia are the ones that are most likely to have their representatives seen at Victor Chandler's flagship Mayfair casino in London.
Previous tours and promotional activities by British teams in Asia have featured marketing and merchandising as their core focuses. But the pre-season Hong Kong event and footballing tours much more closely linked to the gambling industry are to be the norm in future.
