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Sportingbet PLC
04 August 2003



               Sportingbet plc ('Sportingbet ' or 'the Company')

                              Directors dealing

Sportingbet announces that Mr Brian Harris, a non-executive director, has today
purchased 4,879 ordinary shares in the company at 30.5p per share.




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