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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I have bought the Sunday Herald once before. Around the time it started. Didn’t like it but tomorrow I shall be purchasing 3 copies. One for myself, one for my auld Dad and one for my mate who is currently enjoying life on the Canaries.
My thanks to all those who have had anything to do with the advert.
Acgr
How are you up so early. Last night you went to bed as if a strobe light was on you (more comebacks than Rocky Balboa)
Winning Captians
Very very Hooooopy Birthday, joining us Auld Yins :-)
And Jobo
Don’t kid us oan, are you now oooot of LMS3 :-)
Hail Hail
mickbhoy1888 a wee Dayellism there -is that even a word? “the truth will be in the pudding” Hail Hail Hebcelt
The Celtic support are a broad church, I will not be anywhere near Hampden like a few on here but there are many scrambling around desperate for a ticket.
that’sjustthewayitisCSC
Winning captains
Happy birthday
An expolis and a Uriah Heep character now speak for Celtics silent majority, I mean come on :oD))))
Mickbhoy 1888
I’ll be on CQN, as will many others from the CQN family
I will personally never set foot in Hamdump again, and never attend another game with those who ever they may be and claiming to be, some form of a team from Govan
Hail Hail the Celts are Here
hebcelt
11:25 on
24 January, 2015
Bawsman take your grannie’s advice then. H H Hebcelt
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Did ye plug school on the day they did the irony class?
So at least 50,000 don’t know the full story, no surprise there, and when supporters try and publish the full story they are condemned as attention seekers, what twisted minds the silent majority have eh.
Cowiebhoy@11.37
Good for you bud…. I totally agree.
Im not going to pretend, the fact is, that Rangers were liquidated, therefore do not exist.
Why give credence to lies and corruption.
There is no old firm….that died with Rangers….and im glad.
HH
Je Suis The Advert por cierto
Alfred No Oaks
You going to CQN 11? Or are you washing your blue rinse that night?
MICKYBHOY 1888
Have to disagree with your view that so many canny wait. If so,why are the club sending out offers left right and centre for these tickets?
I’m not overall in favour of the ad,btw. For me,it is a red rag to a bull,and a bull wi no recognisable thought process other than hatred and mob mentality. But I understand the reason behind it.
Someone has to tell the truth.
It’s a pity that Celtic supporters have had to pay good money to a newspaper to state what that newspaper knows already but is petrified to put in print.
cowiebhoy,
I imagine many of us will be on CQN next week, I mean that’s were we usually are, no ?
So if we come on next week it means we support the old firm lie, only a mad expolis could make the connection sinister.
Je ne suis pas Alfie Nokes por cierto
Je ne peux pas épeler Noakes :) por cierto
Oh goody, gardeners questions must be soon
Wow, Mr Alfie Boakes is still around. I thought they didn’t like the daylight? Guess there’s a lot of other things they’ve not been quite straight with us eh?
Amazing how he speaks with such authority on behalf of the silent majority. Interesting concept to understand how such a demographic was censused.
Personally I speak from the heart on behalf of myself and only myself. And you Mr Boakes are a joke. Away and bile yer troll heid.
P.s. I of course bow to your vast experience and wisdom of having been ‘a supporter’ (sic) for over 40+ years. I of course have only been of this world for 40 years, so i guess you’ve got me for seniority then. That means i’ll do whatever you say oh dark master. I’ll kowtow to my master every day and never look at the light.
mickbhoy1888
11:29 on
24 January, 2015
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The club have had record ‘returns’ of these tickets from those successful in the ballot.
These people returning tickets ‘in huge numbers’ are guys who go week in and week out.
I can get the guys who go see Celtic against anyone, salt of the earth.
The people scrambling for tickets is your casual big game hunter (or 90 minute bigot) type who’ll next scramble for a ticket for the Milan game.
Celtic team to play Ross County: Gordon; Matthews, Denayer, van Dijk, Izaguirre; Brown, Bitton; Commons, Guidetti, Henderson & Griffiths
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 3s3 seconds ago
Celtic team to play Ross County: Gordon; Matthews, Denayer, van Dijk, Izaguirre; Brown, Bitton; Commons, Guidetti, Henderson & Griffiths
Guidetti in no.10 role today?
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 13s13 seconds ago
SUBS: Zaluska, Ambrose, Scepovic, Lustig, McGregor, Thomson, Lindsay
or more straightforward 4-4-2?
SUBS: Zaluska, Ambrose, Scepovic, Lustig, McGregor, Thomson,
Stokesy injured ?
I will be at Hampden next week.
Not to attend an Old Frim game, that’s gone, I’m going to support Celtic, regardless of the opposition.
Alfie
Sorry mate I know you speak from the heart but that’s a back of the bus statement.
So it’s ok for the huns to threaten, bully and lie, to control the governing bodies and the msm , in fact exert their superiority complex any which way they feel, and we have to be careful about a fan advert stating a truth that would stand up in court?
I agree that the msm will use the ad to point the finger at anything Celtic and therefore inflame things further, but they won’t care anyway, it’ll sell papers no matter the carnage so job done. Carnage btw that will have very little
do with the ad. You cannot surely be saying we keep quiet in case Jackson, Waddell, Keevins and Tanner etc open up on us. It’s a bad day when we cow to these irresponsible troublemakers.
Canamalar
I am not so presumptuous to assume that I speak for the majority of the Celtic support darling
I will leave that to those who are so presumptuous to use the word ‘we’ in adverts and resolutions without quantifying who ‘we’ actually are.
I honestly believe that if a particular club really died and were either buried or cremated and were no longer of this earth then an awful lot of posters on here would lead very empty cyber lives as they would have nothing else to fill their empty hours with no Huns to post about
I dare say that if they did actually die the traffic on here would see a marked decrease
Or there again the blog could survive on a ‘We are pished YouTube top ten hits to make you greet’
James Forrest drops out of the squad again along with Anthony Stokes.
Good morning
A wee cheeky fiver on denayer @14/1 HH
The most used phrase of next week: Old Firm
The second most used phrase of next week: 142 years
Truth will be quiet, lies will be loud.
At least the truth still has some supporters even if the masses of old firm fans enjoy their reminiscent experience.
Can someone please explain to me why any celtic fan would be against another celtic fan taking out newspace to tell the truth.
Rangers are dead.
The Frankensteins are an irrelevance.
There is no Old Firm.
HH.
My long gone mother (RIP ) used to react to the use of ” the silent majority ” by stating –
” I’ll join it when I’m dead “
Alfie
I’ll take back some of the first line.
‘so called Celtic supporters ‘???
That’s not from the heart, maybe another
organ.
masty
Because it make Celtic fans look like a bunch of nutters?