How do you find out that a footballer is betting on the game? They don’t walk into bookies and hand a slip over at the counter, this stuff is all done on smartphones or by telephone.
Betting information is protected by the Data Protection Act, the SFA have no authority to ask and bookmakers have no authority to tell, even if they know a player is breaking SFA rules.
Even if a player sits in the dressing room, and announces that he’s just bet on the match about to take place, and all his team-mates reported him, he would be able to dismiss the charge on the basis that his comments were a joke. No one could prove otherwise.
But, very specific charges are levelled at players.
The betting industry survives on the quality of their information being better than that of their customers. “Are you likely to win at the weekend?”, “Any inside info on who the new manager will be?”, “Who’s struggling to be fit for Saturday (and therefore unlikely to be first scorer)?”
If you are a player, you have the inside line on a market worth hundreds of millions each year. Football has an unhealthy relationship with bookmakers, at some clubs, the betting partner has their own lounge and has full access to the players’ lounge. Many players are big gamblers and some have big incomes. They are both significant clients for bookies and potential sources of inside information. Like many big gamblers, they are offered special odds, not available to the general public.
Let me tell you one way of catching a player who is gambling on football. He is tempted away from his old bookie to one who has become friendly with, possibly after giving his former bookie a bum steer on a striker who was supposed to be injured. The former bookie then ‘discovers’ that the name on one of their accounts doesn’t match the name on the linked bank account, and that this account holder is a footballer.
The bookie is now officially concerned that illegal match fixing is going on. With the possibility of criminality (even if it is without basis), they can alert the authorities. That would teach the player a lesson for leaving, while making money through advantageous odds and feeding bum information back, and destroy whatever competitive advantage the other bookie has.
Does anyone know of any other way a specific charge of gambling on football could be raised?
Maybe the players are all just daft laddies. Maybe the SFA decline to release reports into players gambling because there is nothing to see in them. Maybe you can break the rules on betting but not be punished because it’s a silly rule.
You don’t need to be match fixing to be involved in serious criminality when dealing with a bookmaker. The football watching public need transparency from the SFA on this issue, no matter how much money floods into the game from the gambling industry.
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deniabhoy
13:05 on 23 January, 2015
So it’s all right for us to think we can buy a player for buttons like VVD then a year or two later claim he’s worth 10 million but Utd shouldn’t look for 3 million for their top player?
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That’s about the size of it …..we only pay what any player is worth, within what can afford…and in our estimation of his value
Yep, agree re Budge. Typical Scots football agenda driven hun loving mince.
Re more of those cheeky gambling sevco players, was there not an MIB involved in one of the investigations a few years?
Har de Har, got to live Scottish football and all its cheeky banter and random incompetence.
Hunbelievable feckin feckerhuns >:(
The Celtic Football Club put that wretched monkey hun in her place at the time, don’t forget.
I would bar her from CP for life.
The Establishment monkeys are hurting just as badly as the street level primates.
Happy days.
HH.
jungle jim hot smoked
17:45 on 23 January, 2015
Cheers hope he signs a new contract.Celtic will try and save a few quid if they know a player wants to stay. Did it to Jackie McNamara that worked out well for us.
Will Aberdeen drop points tonight?
JJ
PS Light rain is forecast so I suppose there could be trouble.
Our mhan Wakaso sets up injury-time winner for Ghana oveer Algeria.
Wee budgie shows she’s an Eastern Star!
Cliftonville celt
17 15
Thanks for the info,I’ve been looking all week to see wher it was on.HH
Tin hat on
To be honest I have interest in what happened or did not happen at a fixture between two lower league sides.
That one side said something about the other or not is of no consequence to me.
I come on CQN to read about all things Celtic.
Celtic have nothing to do with this second tier set to.
Mrs Budge ( quite rightly), makes no reference to Celtic or our support.
It seems to me that some people are looking to be upset about something that did not involve Celtic and only, they, those vexed by Mrs Budge’s statement, are connecting Celtic with.
HH
EC67
Kris Commons’s wife seems nice.
But why is she still called Hague?
Schoolboy error, Kris. Always make sure they take your name. That way they know who’s boss and have your dinner on the table when you get home.
Let them keep their own names and they’ll probably run off to join some feminist hippy eco-warrior commune that stinks of lentils. (thumbsup)
Phillvis does viz circa 1985
JJ, hope Plod has plenty of reinforcements out tonight, light rain! Makes for trouble.
EuroChamps, I think it’s not so much Budges statement, it’s the difference in tone between her statement after some graffiti and minor vandalism, allegedly, by some Celtic fans compared with violent attacks, allegedly, by many Orcs.
Am I being cynical in thinking that Kris Commons’ wife is stating that she wants to stay in Glasgow for at least another two years, is that not the contract Kris is holding out for.
I appreciate that is their wish, Common’s or Gudetti…Common’s for me.
Is Kris worth a two year contract, why not sign a one year and see how it goes, could the Common’s family be that kean to stay… Could Mrs Common’s…..
Ayrshire is Green and White
Stairheedrammy
18:02 on 23 January, 2015
Wee budgie shows she’s an Eastern Star!
:)))
Sticker on a bog door or your own fans being knocked unconscious which would you think would call for the stronger statement?
stairheedrammy – fnarr fnarr! (thumbsup)
So, the orcs have forced Michael to change his mind on the security for a loan as a result of their violence / intimidation …… and ssb seem to be ok with that ….incredible ….!!
RIFC appoint new manager
pogmathonyahun – they might as well go for someone with experience of gardening leave:
http://www.wiseknotweed.com/media/resources/images/news/Alan-Titchmarsh.jpg (thumbsup)
Well it’s aff oot for a Pizza and Weißbiers then back to hopefully watch the Tractor Boys run over some Sheep.
Hail! Hail! PMTYH
67heaven.
Ashley was the only chance the grave hoppers had….dumb and dumber them huns.
Now waiting on a Celtic player getting charged with betting on football…!
HH
Aye, Philvis, somebody with the name Micky unlikely to go down to well at the ole Casa Diablo.
A wee question, are the huns in a position to offer security on ipox and the pension thiefs park?
Who knows?
Good Evening Timland.
I’m amazed that some on here are amazed that Mrs Hertz went
easy on the hun,have you not been paying attention ffs.
We now know which side Ms Budge’s bread is buttered. Just like all the rest of them. Ho hum.
HAMILTONTIM
Buon compleanno from La Spezia!
HH!!
Budge is a mealy-mouthed cow.
Blood of our blood and bone of our bone.
The Glib and shameless liar.
Dave King seems a trustworthy sort of chap.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pt694QDAx6Y/UIqWGxt2GGI/AAAAAAAAAaw/tDRxI0-5lRo/s1600/trustinme.JPG (thumbsup)
Philvis
Reading Lisa Hague’s comments – I reckon that if Celtic chucked in a new fitted kitchen that would seal the deal. Any woman can’t resist a new fitted kitchen – or a pair of shoes…
A lot of fudge fae Budge. Disappointed in her statement but not surprised. Keep listening to all those professionals Ann they never tell lies…
iwasbornunderaneasternstarCSC
ole Kenny McDowell looked like a rabbit in the spotlight at his presser today…longing for the garden.
HH
Eurochamps67 –
given the conversation we had pre-match on Wednesday you’ll no doubt be delighted to learn that I’ve taken Aberdeen on my Friday night coupon (along with Senegal, Marseille and Man Utd (at minus 2)) ;-)
Ms Budge has now made a statement.
Rather conciliatory in tone , nice to see her giving the new club the benefit of the doubt and all seemed fit and proper with the match commander.
By the way was the match commander a stray left over from armed forces day?
The statement is no less than I expected …..funny how these people like to condemn songs that are not bigoted in nature….tells me all I need to know about their ignorance and loyalties and are happy to have the ear plugs on when the Billy Boys are in full flow.
Just sickening .
“People here south of the border in England dont understand just how hard a job the Celtic job is! It’s one of biggest football clubs in the world. They may not play in a competitive competition but its tough! The pressure is always on you to win every week home and away. I think he (Neil Lennon) done a magnificent job and served the club well.”
Brendan Rodgers
Leftie
Every year thousands of people up and down the land die or are seriously injured by stickers and in sticker-related incidents.
Had the use of stickers coincided with bad weather and some flakes of snow a veritable carnage would have ensued.
Stickers. They’re more deadly than you might think.
HH jamesgang
roy croppie … I agree … McD came across as if he was begging to get put on gardening leave and/or paid off…
Sipsini
ssb now saying the bored have withdrawn the security to pacify derhun after Friday night, and to protect themselves on the bored ……don’t think Michael will loan them £1 (hehe), let alone £10m, without his choice as security. What then……… Ming gives them it ??…..hahahahaha
Ps Many happy returns to HT
PPS KC & Lisa Hague ain’t married