Ivan Toney is a gambling fool

[The Raptor 1,573]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63653384

 

Ivan Toney: Brentford striker charged by FA with 232 breaches of betting rules

[keelansgrandad 6,680]

28 minutes ago, The Raptor said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63653384

 

Ivan Toney: Brentford striker charged by FA with 232 breaches of betting rules

Of course its not cheating if you are fixing it yourself. Its worse than that.

[daly 551]

Nutcase

[Ulfotto 800]

He was probably all in on being left out of the World Cup squad.

[dylanisabaddog 6,149]

No wonder he's not in the England squad. 

Obviously the nature of the bets isn't known but 232 is an awful lot. If found guilty Brentford will be needing a permanent replacement in January. Perhaps we should all have a few quid on Teemu leaving? 

[Herman 11,136]

"He don't want to live forever."

[city4eva 243]

Explains why he was left out of the England squad

[Midlands Yellow 4,682]

I bet he regrets it now. 

[TheRock 192]

The article doesn't actually say what the betting offences are.

If he simply had an online account and was betting small amounts on other football matches, the ban shouldn't be that lengthy. Lafferty, Chopra, Trippier are names that all come to mind for similar offences.

 

However, if he was "spot-fixing" and it can be proven he was betting on himself / others for significant amounts of money, where he had knowledge of pre-anticipated scenarios (i.e. Yellow Cards, match fixing etc.), then yes, he will be exiled from football for a long time if the evidence is strong enough.

 

The problem is if the Bookies offer those stupid markets, (such as the exact minute of when a throw in will be awarded, a specific player to get booked, specific player to make a certain amount of tackles) eventually third parties are going to try and start defrauding them, especially in the lower leagues... 🤷‍♂️

 

What about when Paddy Power offered that "Player to eat a pie on the sideline" market years ago, and the Sutton United goalie actually did it? The player was subsequently banned, and i'm pretty sure Paddy Power refused to pay out any of those bets as winners.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41181979

Edited November 17, 2022 by TheRock

[Capt. Pants 5,014]

45 minutes ago, TheRock said:

The article doesn't actually say what the betting offences are.

If he simply had an online account and was betting small amounts on other football matches, the ban shouldn't be that lengthy. Lafferty, Chopra, Trippier are names that all come to mind for similar offences.

 

However, if he was "spot-fixing" and it can be proven he was betting on himself / others for significant amounts of money, where he had knowledge of pre-anticipated scenarios (i.e. Yellow Cards, match fixing etc.), then yes, he will be exiled from football for a long time if the evidence is strong enough.

 

The problem is if the Bookies offer those stupid markets, (such as the exact minute of when a throw in will be awarded, a specific player to get booked, specific player to make a certain amount of tackles) eventually third parties are going to try and start defrauding them, especially in the lower leagues... 🤷‍♂️

 

What about when Paddy Power offered that "Player to eat a pie on the sideline" market years ago, and the Sutton United goalie actually did it? The player was subsequently banned, and i'm pretty sure Paddy Power refused to pay out any of those bets as winners.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41181979

I've just Googled rule E8 and it does cover a multitude of different scenarios including supplying privileged information to others and betting on matches the player himself is involved in. The situation here is that Toney has breached the rule 232 times which kind of suggests it's not to do with information but in-match events happening or not happening?