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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leftclicktic,
Given that Izzy has scored loads this season (by his standards), and Matthews VVD and Lustig have all scored in the last two games, surely it must be Denayer’s turn today?
So Chris Sutton saying that JD is doing ok. Praise indeed…
3-0 CFC win pays 7/1 with Paddy Power
Would feel a lot less twitchy about the Sevco game if Guidetti got some game time today.
The team invariably travel up the night before and stay in the Kingsmills Hotel and invariably win!! Good morning 67H hope you are feeling better looking forward to seeing you in the near future in the lounge. Hail Hail Hebcelt
JG,
Only noticed on football post, ever, the same day I took politicians to the base line.
Many took that as puerile, I stand by it, it’s the most vile and hateful corruption and until the politicians and parties take it to task, I will remind the most strident proclaimers of the party system, this is where we are. Do you think toning it down might offend less people who would rather not know about it ? Or do not want to think about it ? Or couldn’t care less because they only came here to talk football ?
When I read people telling me who my betters are, and I need to show unconditional respect and love, well it just grinds my gears…
Re Griffith’s, the courts will be too busy once focus finish arresting the choir after last weeks’ rendition of the billy boys surely.
Surely?
One even
3-0 CFC win pays 7/1 with Paddy Power
and corals
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
Now I will need to bet both:)))))))))))))))))))
Izzy 12s ,wiznaeme(Tom mcG) 6s anytime in90mins today with corals.
Till later all
The Sunday Herald add is the least we can do to voice our opinion on the great Sevco lie.
I noticed some opposition on here and strangely too on etims. I suppose the timing of it could have been better though , perhaps done at the start of the season.
Let’s not forget that if the roles were reversed we’d be subjected to far worse, damned by every msm outlet, not to mention the huns themselves, on a daily basis, for the last three years.
Never underestimate how heavy a price CFC would have been made to pay for swindling hmrc to win trophies.
In fact we would have no breath left to even make the absurd ‘same club’ claim.
Never again at the back of the bus csc.
Canamalar
08:39 on 24 January, 2015
Silo? Soil? I reckon you were right the first time – the place is a dump!
Marrakesh….
Of all the thousands (millions?) of words posted… this…
“Let’s not forget that if the roles were reversed we’d be subjected to far worse, damned by every msm outlet, not to mention the huns themselves, on a daily basis, for the last three years.
Never underestimate how heavy a price CFC would have been made to pay for swindling hmrc to win trophies.
In fact we would have no breath left to even make the absurd ‘same club’ claim.”
is the most irrefutably true.
Well said!
HH
Laugh
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vlv6BrrxD_4
Witness the opprobrium meted out to Grif,
and compare and contrast that dished out to
The Busted Flush and The Lying King……………………..
canamalar
I agree with a lot of what you say.
But not all and not always!
But I can handle that! And the only thing I know to be completely correct is that I’m never completely correct!
Take it easy on those gears of yours insofar as you can!
HH jamesgang
justafan
09:53 on 24 January, 2015
Marrakesh….
Of all the thousands (millions?) of words posted… this…
“Let’s not forget that if the roles were reversed we’d be subjected to far worse, damned by every msm outlet, not to mention the huns themselves, on a daily basis, for the last three years.
Never underestimate how heavy a price CFC would have been made to pay for swindling hmrc to win trophies.
In fact we would have no breath left to even make the absurd ‘same club’ claim.”
is the most irrefutably true.
Well said!
HH
How true is that ……HH
JG,
I don’t even agree with me all the time, cognitive dissonance is a daily ritual, a canny believe that, is an acceptance speech.
Hail hail
How long ago was the griff thing ?
Canman
When you back next
Need to catch a few in the smiddy or dolphin
Canman
About April 2014 I think
This 20+ points league win is looking good for the hoops as predicted by yours truly away back in the dark days when people thought aberdeen won the league in November :-) faithful through and through haha
Good win today by 3+ sets us up nicely for the massacre next week HH
canamalar
;-)
Aff oot. Kickaboot with the wee mhan before we get ready to watch the Celtic!
HH jamesgang
Morning folks,
Marrakesh Express
09:46 on
24 January, 2015
The Sunday Herald add is the least we can do to voice our opinion on the great Sevco lie.
I noticed some opposition on here and strangely too on etims. I suppose the timing of it could have been better though , perhaps done at the start of the season.
Let’s not forget that if the roles were reversed we’d be subjected to far worse, damned by every msm outlet, not to mention the huns themselves, on a daily basis, for the last three years.
Never underestimate how heavy a price CFC would have been made to pay for swindling hmrc to win trophies.
In fact we would have no breath left to even make the absurd ‘same club’ claim.
Never again at the back of the bus csc.
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Marrakesh Express spot on buddy. The bias of the MSM should never be underestimated or forgotten. Anyone who needs reminded just needs to buy the rags or tune into SSB or SSN.
Wee George, off to the bookies to bet on your prediction, missed out on your correct prediction on Wednesday.
HH Dan
Dan
streets bad with black ice in tyre, be careful out there
Cheers for that BT.
Appreciated buddy.
HH Dan
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
10:14 on
24 January, 2015
Dan
streets bad with black ice in tyre, be careful out there
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tell me about it, a just fell on ma arse going out to the garage..
BT,
April is current plan but plans change, innit :)
April ?
That’s a long time to keep a trick up your sleeve eh
Hill St Blues CSC!
Bobby Madden officiatig at Pollock ParkRun this morning and race called off due to a wee bit of ice. Grrrrrrrrrr
Lovely sunny day – way down south.Bliss / after 2 days of torrential rain and wowee hailstorms ( hailstones the size of Maltesers ) Boring day ahead – repairing polythene growing tunnels damaged by hailstones the size of Maltesers.
Well the Dandy Dons dropped another two points last night so we are on the same points with two games in hand as Rony said all we have to do is keep winning. H.H.
#TeamAlfie
Too many Chillis on my Pizza last night :-((
COYBIG
I see big Mike Ashley is going to hand the Rangers another few million the man has a plan. H.H.
Joe Filippis Haircut
he will get the deeds to achenhowie, they cant use ipox, why? because its not theirs to use,,,,,totally Donald ducked.csc.
The Merlot must having been flowing heavily last night.
I see the term “world class” was being banded about like confetti…
masty. Do they have the deeds to auchenhowie ? I think that is a problem for them I would not be surprised if they are being held by ticketus. H.H.
Ticketbus