Ivan Toney

[Zabbasbeard]

Placed 13 bets on his own team to lose

Addicted. Needs treatment as well as punishment.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Placed 13 bets on his own team to lose

Surely that's match fixing

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Surely that's match fixing

If he bet on his team to lose and they got a late penalty, he's their penalty taker what does he do if they're drawing

 

[SamTheGuru]

Fantastic player, clearly has wires loose in his brain.

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

It was scandalously lenient, a league 2 player got 8 months for 1 x £5 accumulator in 2009.
That ban was August so it was in effect a season ban, when Toney got 5 months Net.

They can bet on anything they like apart from football. Toney was betting against his own team on a regular basis, if a lower league player did that it would be 5-10 years.

True, what a crap ban. Why did they need to wait over 5 months to ban him during off season. The crap that Southgate was coming up with was equally scandalous. Clearly he did not have a scooby about the extent of the charges

 

[PragueBlue]

If he bet on his team to lose and they got a late penalty, he's their penalty taker what does he do if they're drawing

He wasn't playing in any of the games where he bet on his own team to lose, so wasn't in a position to influence the result. Not really match fixing at all IMO.

Personally I don't see any problem betting on his team to win. Surely he'd be doing his best to help them win anyway.

 

[Magicpole]

If he bet on his team to lose and they got a late penalty, he's their penalty taker what does he do if they're drawing

Shout at them, a last minute penalty is not the time to get the sketchbook out ffs!

 

[Sk@mcfc]

Comes across as a right tosser everyone else’s fault as to why he was betting you have to be pretty fucking stupid if your a professional footballer and your betting on yourself not knowing your breaking rules

 

[jamesha]

Yes, but smokescreen deflection tactics. As said earlier, a pro betting against the team he played in is awful. I wouldnt want to be in the same team as him ever again and if I was a manager Inwouldnt touch him with a bargepole. Hugely disrepectful to clubmates and undermines the fabric of what team sports and collective effort is about. Who would trust him?

Nail on the head. Team-mates may be examining every conversation they had with him to see if he was being negative before the games he bet on.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Everything about this guy just screams utter dickhead.