Better late than never

Congratulations to Jean-Francois Vilotte, the chief of the French betting regulator ARJEL, for recognising that " high taxation and a limit on the rate of return to players may cause gamblers to seek out illegal sportsbetting providers ".

Now, why does that happy news remind me of the story we were told as schoolboys, that if you trod on a dinosaur's tail it would take two hours to notice?