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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Perhaps Ms Budg(i)e was threatened by this character from Glasgow Charles Endell Esquire
tim malone will tell & philvisreturns will soon be advocating female suffrage in a desperate effort to persuade KC to re-sign.
You Ghuys are so 80s
1880s!
;-)
HH jamesgang
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Thank God for Celtic
mike
the guy looks stressed out of his nut; get Jimmy Calderwood in…
HH
Charles Endell Esquire
Charlie taking the p**h on Clyde. ;)
Charlie rumbled them up there on ssb….thought DL was going to lose the plot ….hahahaha
Jamesgang
Nice one! Thankfully it is a (mainly) indie 80s tape on in the train station pub right now – as opposed to Barnum and Bailey
Wish you would pack it in with the budge woman , your making her a personality . She is of no interest to anyone at the champion club .
Next Wednesday I’m flying out to Thailand does anybody know any Celtic friendly pubs there that shows our games and also in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam too. Many thanks to anybody that answers my post.
Backpacking CSC
I see that I was right about the doubke bluff. Pretend you are taking ibrox and murray park. Scsre em. Then relent in ibtox and you get mirray park.
the old make it seem really terrible and the people will be happy with terrible trick.
saw it coming a mile
Only 1 sleep till Celtic!
Will we keep Leigh in the team? Who will be our goalscoring RB(surely Fisher is due a goal)
Good feeling these days, can’t wait for the next game
coneybhoy
I’m a child of the 80s in musical terms.
HH jamesgang
tim malone will tell – 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…
Oh man.
No, that’s a bad road to go down.
Women are like terrorists – you don’t want to negotiate with them.
As soon as you give in on a new kitchen, they’ll want a new bathroom.
I made this foolish mistake myself. No sooner had she gotten a new kitchen, the wife insisted on new bathrooms, because you can’t just update the downstairs! What would visitors think?
Then she demanded handmade artisan tiling for her bathroom. And a Victorian style freestanding bath. And fancy mood lighting. And underfloor heating. And custom built recessed shelving.
Mine just has a shower, a place to poo, and a sink.
After it was all done, she put pictures of her shiny new toilet on Facebook and never uses it, because mine is closer and she doesn’t want to have to clean two bathrooms.
And now she wants me to demolish the shed and get a log cabin built to house her treadmill and yoga things. I’m not sure women understand the concept of money. They think of men in much the same way Mexican children think of pinatas.
No, some flowers, chocolates, and a bottle of Lambrini is the way to go. (thumbsup)
H
Are the sheep on the box tonight?
roy croppie
18:27 on 23 January, 2015
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
Once Sally finishes the hutch, he will be off.
frannyb67,
On BT sports 7.30.
Ridiculous fudging from Budge.
She’s more bothered about boys with felt tip pins than thugs with toe capped boots.
Roddy McDowall lined up as new Sevco manager.
He’s used to those damn, dirty apes. (thumbsup)
I’m at a loss to understand what Michael, and this bored, want out of sevco …..they seem to be basing their revenue, marketing , brand forecasts on the oldco levels…….but that’s gone, and will not return….a share issue will fail, and SBs etc will be way down…..it will take them years to pay back Michael’s loans, buy even half-decent players and get to / stay in the SPFL ETC …..and that’s if they manage to avoid administration shortly …… Michael will have a cunning money-making plan, which will succeed, but I cannot phantom at all what it might be… :)
The same situation prevails for ming and co……but I would suggest they do not have a plan, and will slowly drag themselves and sevco to Liquidation, if they manage to avoid it over the next 3 months by their own devices….
Sopsini
Cheers.HH
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Johnny Doyle v six huns
oddsinourfavourCSC
Neganon2
Was that a stifled cry for help?
Philvis
You are the type of moustachioed cad who tied distressed damsels to railway tracks in old black and white movies and then left cackling evily.
Down with that sort of thing
Neganon’s been kidnapped by happy clappers!
Quick, to the Tim Mobile!
HH jamesgang
Great pics Roy.
KLV
Philvis,
My old dad had the right idea. Used to buy his “cairry oot” every Friday night – but there was always a wee bottle of Tia Maria for my mother…
See the rags are full of “Ibrox ” won’t be used as security revelations?
Really? So if the loans are secured by a floating charge and the bricks and mortar aren’t already secured to other creditors ( assuming Ra Gers huv actually goat the tit’ul deeds ) then guess which assets Big Mick is going to grab first if the debts aren’t paid and the floating charge is called up and a receiver appointed..?
What Is The Stars –
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
http://peerie.adaptive.net/faces/full/4/34101-489054.jpg (thumbsup)
BT Sport …Felix Magath next Sevco manager
Philvis
My take on Women,They who must be Obeyed.:)
Philvis – take care with your indulging of your missus
To paraphrase Rab C
“First she wantit a washin’ machine
Then she wantit a dishwasher
Noo , she wants an Org@@m..! ”
:-)
So BGX still wish we had a CEO like Mrs Budge?
Maybe Peter Lawell hacked her e-mail account and doctored the scathing indictment of Sevco(Scotland)’s works team and their fans to produce the waffle she came out with?
I did notice she did not intend to answer all the questions put to her by her own fans but that they would have to make do with her statement. Way to engage meaningfully with your fans Mrs Budge… not!!
A large supply of Sunday Herald’s ordered. They will be posted out Monday morning to every corner of the world.
We order 50 extras so that we will have some copies available in case anyone needs one.
If you are in Scotland do your bit on Sunday and buy the Sunday Herald. We are getting the the sales figures next Wednesday.
You can order a copy from CQN at
http://Www.cqnbookstore.com
The long wait is over
19 05.
:):):):):)
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Big George like a knife through butter
HH
klv :) HH
can I have a raspberry…he looks as if he needs ‘pet rescued…’ :)
wouldn’t like to see Magath at Snake Mountain …. been at 10 clubs in 20 years, or there abouts …. seems to work players like mules, gets immediate results, but wears out his welcome in a a year or so … but this short term boost could be enough to get Sevco into the SPL ….
not sure what they would pay him with, mind. What is german for shirt buttons?
Winning Captains
That ad. The Sun swinging in already.
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/6290353/Celtic-fans-band-together-for-new-club-Gers-advert.html
Note it mentions lighting the blue touch paper.
This is typical main stream angle of attack. Have a go at the authors rather than those reacting to what they see.
As I recall the advert spoke for self. It stated how Celtic support see things and gave reasons why.
It did not demand Rangers supporters accept our view ( we could not agree on the basic colour of blood) it simply said we do not buy into the same club narrative and so continuation of the Old Firm myth ( which Celtic no longer refer to either)
That the likes of the Sun would use an advert to stoke up feelings is entirely predictable but as long as the advert honestly speaks for self with feeling but factually, then how others react to it is their problem.
If problems do arise then the guilt loaders (and they will not all be in blue) will be shovelling guilt on in barrowloads.
Have the shovels ready to shovel the truth back out and let them come to terms with their own creation.