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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Awra best auld fella.
bawsman
12:54 on 23 January, 2015
Broon is STILL not a £4 Million player.
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Yur bawsman….
Commons or Guidetti?
Inter ticket update.
https://twitter.com/CelticResearch/status/558609105011875841
HH
Thanks for all the birthday wishes folks, very nice of you.
Hail Hail
67heaven .. challenging the lie ..i am wee oscar / neil lennon.. ipox belongs to the creditors
12:57 on 23 January, 2015
prestonpans bhoys
12:50 on 23 January, 2015
That’s more like it
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Naw, wait £2m for both, at the most …..hahahahahahaha
Don’t know if this has already been posted,John Herron on loan to Cowdenbeath ,Paul McMillan to Stenhousemuir on loan…….
Bawsman
12:54 on
23 January, 2015
Broon is STILL not a £4 Million player.
Have to disagree when he was absent we realised what he brought to our mid-field and any good mid-fielder is worth £4 million any day of the week imo
but we can agree to disagree ktf
HH
TT
Commons.
richie #rip kano
12:56 on 23 January, 2015
Glad to hear it mate, catch up soon, will you be in the BV next Friday to see oldtim?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Very best of luck to Beram and dear Sammi, and thank you for your effort.
One thing worries me about our first game against hunman and that is when we are 6 goals up, we might show them mercy. That can’t happen, never give a mug an even break!!
KINGLuBO
tinytim
12:58 on 23 January, 2015
Commons.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Both
Greedybassa.csc.
H T
Awarra best. Heating allowance and bus pass territory now??? 0)
Deniabhoy@12.54
Upon reading your post I thought (just like Charlie Nic) is this some sort of a prelude to calling out our players on gambling charges?
NotparanoidenoughCFC
tinytim
Commons
HH
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?
Archbishop Tartaglia in hospital in Salamanca after suffering a heart attack
More candles required
Well done Celtic Foundation :>).
Prestonpans@12.50
I like this new DU approach to the transfer market…buy one get one free.
There has been a bit of discussion about our youth players not making the breakthrough to the first team. How many promising youngsters have left the club after suffering a serious injury? I would guess quite a few.
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
13:06 on
23 January, 2015
Archbishop Tartaglia in hospital in Salamanca after suffering a heart attack
More candles required
Yeeeee
welcome back
HH
Even though he was a hun player, I always quite liked Fernando Ricksen.
He shone with his own inner kaleidoscope like a crazy diamond.
I was sad to hear about his illness, and the way he has been treated by his gold-digging ex wife.
I hope his match is a sellout. (thumbsup)
canalmar,
couldnt resist, how far the mighty non payers have fallen.
Dena
Thanks
Hope you are cheering my return and not the archbishops illness 8))
We have to place our order for copies of the Sunday Herald this afternoon so last shout if anyone wants a copy posted out to them anywhere in the world on Monday morning. If you are in other parts of UK or in Ireland, Europe or further afield, or if you are in Scotland and want to ensure you get a copy you can order now at http://www.cqnbookstore.com
If you are in Scotland please try to get a copy of Sunday Herald on Sunday, selling it out makes a statement in itself.
minx1888 @ 06:53
“Good Morning All
Happy birthday to the most kindest genuine mhan in the world !!I know I’m luckier than all of you I get to keep him! ”
Not sure that you should be advertising this.
Hamilton Tim reads these pages :-)
P.S. Happy Birthday HT
frannyb67
13:00 on 23 January, 2015
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Thanks for that.
Mcmullan looks a great prospect.. was hoping he might get game or 2 near end of season. Few months on loan should do good.
“The football watching public need transparency from the SFA”
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Errrrrrrrr……
CELTIC WAG Lisa Hague says she loves Glasgow and is keen to stay here for at least another two years despite speculation that her partner Kris Commons may be leaving the team.
Lisa ,who was at the launch of the Scottish Entertainment and Hospitality Awards to help raise funds for the STV Appeal said: “I’m hoping to stay here and I’ve already let families and friends know to give us another couple of years here and we’ll see in a couple of years.
“I feel like I’ve got unfinished business still to do in Glasgow with the Lola Commons charity and stuff we do as a family. It’s also crunch time for my daughter April starting school and it could be long term actually. I do love it up here.”
Lisa who wanted to watch boyband Rewind perform alongside Des Clarke at the bash admitted she was also keen to see what other acts were on offer at the Corinthian bash.
She said: “It’s nice to leave the kids with dad for a bit and get into the glitz and glamour. i’m here to see what’s happening as a bit of a poacher for my own events.”
Lisa admits she has a problem saying no to charity event and has two other project on the go currently.
She said: “I’ve just recently been roped into a zipwire across Celtic park and driving a golf buggy around ad t some point but I need to learn to say no.
“I was asked to think about walking across hot coals for charity but I told myself to put the phone down and walk away from twitter for five minutes. Kris concentrates on the pitch and I run about Glasgow doing things so we make a good team.”
John herron ..
Was he not tipped for great things a couple of years ago or am i thinking about paul george ?
Love seeing young players come through… Liam henderson has it plus more. Hope he keeps getting a first team game now and then.
gary67 – I thought Kevin Bridges was the official Celtic wag. (thumbsup)
For me Armstrong is not worth 3 million he is a promising youngster no more than that. English clubs with money to burn might well pay 3 million but whoever signs him is taking a risk on him continuing to progress why we cannot use more of our own youngsters instead of splashing out on other clubs youngsters is a mystery to me. H.H.
philvisreturns 13:07 on 23 January, 2015
I hope his match is a sellout.
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I hope so too. We should also praise sevco for holding a benefit match for a player who never played for them.
Philvis13.07
I intensely disliked Fernando as a player except when he was up against Bobby Petta.
I echo your sentiments hoping that he gets a full house at the Sappora Dome but I hope the Celtic Foundation pay the £10k directly into Fernandos personal/specific charity account. As far as I am aware “dirty taig money” (to quote the Neanderthals ) is still legal tender.
HH
On this dayPaul mc stay made his debut.
https://twitter.com/MaleysBhoys/status/558611063609237504
HH
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
Definitely your return
HH
Acgr@13.18
Hhhaaaaaaaa hhhaaaaaaaaaa.