21. The football pools promoter and the bookmaker have to be personally licensed, like the publican. 22. In 1989, Ladbrokes also acquired Vernons Football Pools . 23. In 1967 he completed the legislative process founding the Football pool and became its first chairman. 24. In 1978 Ratliff wrote Vulcan, a database application, to help him make picks for football pools . 25. They could see why John Jervis Barnard's idea of a football pool had failed in Birmingham. 26. They played the football pools together in Herman's. 27. He's the one who runs the football pool . 28. The theatre is named after Harry Sherman, the co-founder of Sherman's Football Pools , who financed its construction. 29. And so, in 1923, the Littlewood Football Pool as it was called originally was started. 30. Informed that it belonged to players who had started a pro football pool , Steinbrenner personally removed it.