Ivan Toney

Quoted from Abdul19

Players all know they're not allowed to bet on football. No doubt the daft fucker had an account in his own name.

IvanToney96 was his username. Surprised he managed to place so many bets before being caught.

Quoted from mariner91

IvanToney96 was his username. Surprised he managed to place so many bets before being caught.

Should have called himself Tony Ivan69. That woulda fooled 'em.

Quoted from aldi_01

So no issue with drink driving, assault and to be fair, Tripper was caught betting too…

It’s hard to have sympathy, I get that, but when a sport relies seemingly quite heavily on the money from gambling sites and bookmakers, and doesn’t seem to want to do anything about that, it’s easy to see why players do it…

I’ve never placed a bet in my life, out of interest, do other sports have similar rules?

Rugby Union does, certainly, although the only well known case of it was when Wales assistant coach Rob Howley was dumped from the 2019 world cup when the allegations came out.  The only real shock there was that it took so long for official action to happen as word in the valleys was in the local bookies most days.  Nobody really cared until a rumour came out that he'd bet £6k on wales to lose, never found out if that was true or not but it turned opinion from 'he's not doing any harm' to 'hang, draw and quarter him'.

The weird thing about Toney is they charged him then let him play.  If there was anything serious about it he would have been dropped like a stone by the club surely.

He's guilty, like many other footballers caught up in betting scandals, of stupidity rather than cheating or fixing.

I'm in complete agreement with those who are calling out the irony of a sport, pretty much propped up by the betting industry (and vice-versa in all truth), going in on tough on this.

You can also compare it to other sports that have a strong link with gambling, racing for example where jockeys, owners and trainers are very happy to spoon-feed information to punters and often game the markets themselves for future gain.

It's a stupid rule that needs refreshing in my opinion.  Toney betting on the outcome of Exeter v Oldham in 2019 is a ridiculous reason for him to miss out on a place at the World Cup.  

Oh the Ivany of it

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

TBF, I’ve got a few Ciba-Geigy Town shirts and I’ve always just about managed to resist releasing toxic chemicals into my local river.

Let alone my Brazilian club shirt that is sponsored by Coke.....

Hope there's no fans of the Peruvian league here...

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It does make sense to not allow players to bet on their sport. Obviously not in games in which they are personally involved, but in any games at any level. Ivan Toney, as an example, will know quite a few players who play in the top five or six levels of the English game, maybe some playing lower down too, so the potential for match fixing is a lot greater than might at first seem apparent.

The fact is that Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney has the most ironic initials ever

I guess if you are on loan to Scunny you think you haven’t got a lot to lose