RNS Number:9747N
Sportingbet PLC
25 July 2003


                                Sportingbet Plc
                                (the "Company')

                               Directors' dealing


The Company has today been notified that the following Director of Sportingbet
has today purchased ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 28p per share:

Director                                Number of shares  Resultant shareholding
                                               purchased

Nigel Terence Payne                               75,000                 130,000
(Chief Executive Officer)



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