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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ACGR & Petec telling me they are ashamed of their singing !
You wouldn’t have feckin thought so if you’d heard them outside Bar67, post-huddle, a few hootenannays ago :)))
Nutters :))
….only saved by the dulcet tones of 16 Roads I might add. Sweet voice :))
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
03:08 on 24 January, 2015
ACGR & Petec telling me they are ashamed of their singing !
You wouldn’t have feckin thought so if you’d heard them outside Bar67, post-huddle, a few hootenannays ago :)))
Nutters :))
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You aint seen Northside, yet.
Shall we take a Trip?
Bitcoin is the Underground now.
Unbelievable
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Petec, weefra is the bees knee’s, the cat’s pyjama’s and the dogs bollox all rolled up in a waffle and served with cream and jus!!! A delightful guy to meet in my book.
I did say it was a seven stage sign off and not a seventeen stage one…….I fink:_)
FFM, not at all, I’m a rer chanter, Mr P would have cried with jealousy cos I hit notes he only dreamed of.
Antiopran Red, Thankyou, so much. You are a true gent and I hope when I’m there I can tempt you to come up and meet me for a couple of cold ones, a few goldies and a lesson in waxing (from you)…………………………:_))
…………….Celtic
Armoured cars…………
FFS wake up to what is happenin.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust 03:18,
His love is incredible, that always resonates, hopefully he is back Jam n Spoon.
ernie lynch is certainly not Profitting despite being rigid in his Belief.
ernie.csc
ACGR,
Can’t believe you are claiming singing ability based purely on the high notes reached from wearing a tight onesie.
Petec has never made any claim to be a great singer, not has he surrupticiously blamed it on an item of clothing.
Signing out disgusted CSC.
ACGR
Just in for a wee coffee and fag break,caught yer post at 0120
Indian colleague,ffs…
PMSL,indeed!!!
ernie boxed with philvis and got a wee lesson.
I want to hear ernie now more than philvis.
ernie is a magnificent poster on this site, I’m guessing he is a guid bit older than me.
opinions.csc
petec @ 03:25
That sums up your gentle but strong nature to a tee.
I know you disagree with EL, but you’ll fight for his right to speak.
HH to you.
FFM
You for doing the cheerleading in three weeks?
Feck me, quick !
BMCUW !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HnOFwqpLRQ
BMCUW,
I’m still not ruling it out – it’s looking entirely possible. I’m picturing myself going by ferry as a humble foot passenger. It’s still on as far as I’m concerned, but work can always put a big hun-like spanner in the works …..
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
03:36 on 24 January, 2015
ACGR,
Can’t believe you are claiming singing ability based purely on the high notes reached from wearing a tight onesie.
Petec has never made any claim to be a great singer, not has he surrupticiously blamed it on an item of clothing.
Signing out disgusted CSC.
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Are you inside my Mind?
I will be wearing the cheapest gear ever, goin to Belfast.
FFM
Good man!
Keep an eye on the blog,there may be others on the ferry.
The planes seem to have been booked en-masse for some reason!
BMCUW,
Aye, I’ll be watching out for Petec tryin to scramble onto the boat after being denied a boarding pass for wearing a onesie.
I couple of hours on the boat with said fella would be good craic.
I was just recalling to myself how we ran for the train at Bath Station. We both insisted on having a quick pint in some posh twat bar beside the station. Great craic, I can’t thank you enough for rescuing me from what would otherwise have been a torturous weekend. Was a great day amigo. And I appreciated the 5 mins of proper sight-seeing. Any more would have really really annoyed me :))
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
03:38 on 24 January, 2015
petec @ 03:25
That sums up your gentle but strong nature to a tee.
I know you disagree with EL, but you’ll fight for his right to speak.
HH to you.
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Stop being presumptious, my mind is Free. ;) :);)
My Dad was the biggest ever Socialist.
macjay1 is what I want on this site right here…..now
petec,
(Love that song).
Agree, macjay is missed.
Haste ye back.
FFM
Any more than five minutes is a sightseeing tour,and a day wasted.
Bath Abbey,site of the coronation of the first king of England. That’s it.
(Right beside our first pub that day,to remind you!)
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
02:43 on 24 January, 2015
In the style of my pal Weefra I’me employing a seven stage strategy of going to bed. Stage one is complete.
Petec,………………………:_))
Stay single bro.
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Family is important. I’ll chat to you at the more serene times in Belfast.
Sunday
You can Dance if you want to.
BMCUW,
FFS, you never mentioned that particular historical significance!
If I remember rightly, you were insisting we visited the historical sweetie shop opposite !
Fair play, that’s what I would have done while trying to direct all motion towards the boozer :))
:)) Great day.
Unifying the Celtic Support was the first thing Neil did.
God’s story is remarkable. I hope to Witness a lot more.
FFM
Correct. Which would you have preferred? Honestly now…
Anyways, why in a Trial does a person have to Swear on the Book of God, when God plainly says Do not Swear on anything.
Masonry, flipping things.
BMCUW,
Given my interest in these things in the past, and having my first chance to experience a town where pubs, baths and train stations seem inter-changeable.
….. I still feel we could have visited more pubs if you’d speeded up a wee bit.
Sorry pal – some things need to be said.
petec @ 04:10,
Proof positive that the whole judicial system is built on lies.
FFM
We could have,you are correct once again.
We would probably still be there,mind.
‘Just one more,round the corner. Plenty of time,trust me!’
Famous last words from this weary traveller. Practicing for my travails in Bristol.
what’s going on?
If only the hun had showed a slight remorse…….
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
04:14 on 24 January, 2015
petec @ 04:10,
Proof positive that the whole judicial system is built on lies.
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Incredible.
There is only 1 Judge. ;))
I’m gonnae get a serious grilling when I am before the Judge, I am scared of that moment because I have been so Selfish all my life.
I’ve been put in situations over the last couple of years, and I have failed.
Ronny Deila
Is the Man.
“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)?”
Always been my thoughts exactly Paul.
Somebody had to say it, the permutations for corruption are almost infinite. Well said sir. Nail On Head.
Say you’ve played with and you’re ‘matey’ of a player who’s had a move to a big European or even an EPL team, where every player can be a chess piece in Managers not just tactical but psychological war at the tickly parts of the season.. the rewards of that knowledge can be astronomical, when you do indeed find that after 39 goals and a hatrick last match he’s tweaked a hamstring the week of the Big Cup Match…
I only ever played Schools football and a couple of years amateur 30 odd years ago but I’ve always thought I knew even as a kid that a player betting on the football in the bookies was out of bounds for all those obvious reasons. Horses dogs aye, NEVER the football.
Sicken them so they don’t want to come out for the 2nd half.
I’ll drop the goals to 4-0 half time.
5-0 was ambitious.
Every Celt that pulls on the Jersey MUST play like it is there last ever game.
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