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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One thing is certain….that mob, whoever they are, will totally disgrace themselves with sectarian, racist songs….they cannot help themselves.
Now….I had a lot of years listening to that, but I will not tolerate it anymore.
Why should any Celtic fan be subjected to that kind of abuse?
Feck that, ive got better things to do, than be abused by knuckle-dragging bigots, if that’s what Scottish football is all about….you can keep it.
There is no old firm.
HH
Sorry wee bgfc I’ve gone for 5or more at 5/1
Presumptuous is exactly what you are being, you’ve been telling us this morning the motives behind the ad are a vanity project, and that most would prefer it was not published yet clearly show the vast majority going don’t know the truth, and presume they don’t want to know the truth, it’s just a pile of manure.
Alfie Noakes
To say we are getting down in the cesspit with Sevco is a bit of a judgement to make without seeing what the ad actually says.
I doubt we could ever sink that low.
Does it carry risks?
Well unfortunately it does but that is the real story.
Why was an ad necessary in the first place and why is society afraid of what are at the end of the day a couple of hundred bully boys?
Our media have much to answer for.
Just logged in half an hour before an important league game for team news and pre-match views and still it’s all Rangers, Sevco, Huns talk.
I’ll leave you all to your favourite topic while I concentrate on Celtic.
Bye.
I can see Sevco asking for a extension to the season
Mike “Hi and very good morning to all our green fingered listeners. Our first chirpy call of the morning comes from Gordon, from Paisley, good morning Gordon ask away”
Gordon: ” Hi Mike thanks for having me on”
Mike: “Your very welcome Gordon, I’m good at that”
Gordon: ” Oh yes lol Anyway, Any suggestions for a quick growing tree (not a conifer) which will give a good screen and be pleasant to look at for the whole year?”
Mike: “Alistair?”
Alistair: “Absolutely, It depends how much planting room you have. Bamboos in clumps are attractive and evergreen, with the lovely sound when the wind passes through. Or a post and rope frame could be put in, with roses, clematis etc planted on it, with spring bulbs underneath. Some climbing/rambling roses are evergreen or almost. It does depend, absolutely, on how much light the site gets and what type of soil it is. Kenny?”
Kenny: ” Absolutely Ally. Thank you and good morning Gordon, love the part about “the wind passing through Ally, though it wasn’t that lovely some mornings lol, anyhoots, Trees! well they say all good things come in Trees lol, Eucalyptus for me, it’s evergreen and delicate, also rapid growing. Ceanothus is also evergreen, darker in colour, and more of a shrub, but makes a decent hedge. This also flowers blue in May which of course is a belter of a colour.”
Ally: ” Absolutely Kenny, Eucalyptus, absolutely”
Mike: ” Thank you lads, does that answer your question Gordon?”
Gordon: ” Absolutely Mike”
Mike: “Do you 3 hang about with Derek Johnstone by any chance? OK folks back later with more of those gardening problems and, of course, the answers”
And the resolution was quite clear who ‘we’ were but reading and understanding can be a problem for some I understand that.
The idea that the blue boys behaviour will have been the result of a calling out of lies in the Herald is delusional. Pumping them 5 – 0 will have much more impact. Does that mean we should play for a draw in the interests of public safety?
Get real. This will be violent. This will be dangerous. Primarily because the myth has been allowed to win over truth. If they had been forced to face up to the truth and live with it then this fixture would be much safer.
I know exactly who is responsible for the violence coming and it is not the truth speakers.
Curious line up from RD where we can only assume AS is injured, and JF unfit?
That said a very strong bench and not everybody can start.
Big day for Liam Henderson this time because Stefan Johansen is missing, probably rested.
Henderson has to step up.
Griffiths will be pushed wide, Guidetti up front the pitch is so narrow.
HD stream on Celtic tv today. Should be interesting……..
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”
Martin Luther King Jr. CSC
ps leftclicktic mind and get me a copy tomorrow
For me as a Celtic supporter the advert in the Sunday Herald will not change anything Rangers football club were liquidated and the Rangers are a new team I know it and they know it .Any violence that happens before during or after next weeks game will not in my opinion be ignited by the advert but will be because of there Bigotory and there deep felt hate of Celtic and there fans. They can kid themselves on that it is the same team all they like but that will not make it so Alfie Noakes has given his opinion and I dont share it but he has the right to hold that opinion without everyone jumping down his throat that is my opinion.H.H.
Tom McLaughlin
12:00 on 24 January, 2015
Perhaps if the Celtic Board had made it clear from the start that so far as they are concerned Sevco are a new club we would all be concentrating on today’s game.
Reading twitter that L Griffis has been charged under the offensive behaviour act for singing about Rudy Scatchell in a pub. Anyone else heard anything?
ps Starry Plough you kicking about? Can you email me or contact me through Mixcloud
HH
That is not as strong a team as I thought might be playing.
By strong I mean physically.
Could be a bumpy ride.
Celtic team v Ross County: Gordon, Matthews, Denayer, van Dijk, Izaguirre, Brown, Bitton, Commons, Guidetti, Henderson, Griffiths.
Barrach Obampot
12:04 on
24 January, 2015
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”
Martin Luther King Jr. CSC
King! any relation? surely not por cierto
The SFA sitting in judgement of anyone is a joke. Ditto the SPFL I hope the Sevco player gets off with it like Black did.
HH
Anyone else noticed a wee difference in the hun thinking,
Before they where liquidated they kept saying they wanted nothing to do with the ”old firm’ tag
Now
It’s old firm this old firm that hoping to keep alive the lie HH
Good luck to Celtic today as we go for 4IAR, games and championships.
I’m glad Winning Captains and others gave me the opportunity to chip in to the newspaper statement.
Reading inconvenient truths anywhere divides people into two camps; those who focus on the inconvenience and others who want the truth shown. I’ve no problem where Celtic supporters find themselves but for me the statement is the correct thing to do and this week-end is the right time to do it.
John Meechan
watching today’s football in the ettrick
There is an exclusive Neil Lennon interview on BBC Radio Scotland 810MW/digital +
Eddieinkirkmichael
Aye griff has been charged
Celtic striker Griffiths charged under new football legislation
STV
24 January 2015 10:13 GMT
http://www.stv.tv/scotland/307760-celtic-player-leigh-griffiths-charged-after-alleged-incident-in-edinburgh/
I like the look of the team today and assume that Johanson is injured. Good to see Henderson and Griffiths keeping their place, though I guess the latter may be playing wide rather than main striker. Griffiths could be hitting form just in time for next week’s game and young Henderson will handle the physical aspect if he plays next week.
Por Cierto
no, I think he’s more like our lives begin to end the day we have to pay our way
HH
Ernie Lynch –
Aye right.
If you believe that would stop the Sevco obsession, you are deluded.
Por Cierto,
An avid fan of the new gardeners questions, do you have any idea if there will be any more celebrities joining soon ;)
More ‘back of the bus’ and ‘soup takers’. Very embarrassing.
canamalar
11:58 on 24 January, 2015
No that’s not me being presumptuous that’s my opinion which I am entitled to hold.
As for me stating the majority would prefer it no to be published,please point me in the direction I said that I think you will find that I said the majority were unaware of it and couldnt give a damn about it
I applaud any Celtic fan, who is willing to stand up to lies and corruption…Well done to the bhoys who wrote that article…..Its about time the lie was challenged.
The truth must be upheld.
Rangers were liquidated, there is no old firm.
HH
doc
11:49 on 24 January, 2015
Me too mate HH
Thanks guys
According todays Scotsman we are in with a shout of signing Man,Utds Darren Fletcher and big Peter has sanctioned the signing. The player himself will decide where he is moving to by the end of next week if he can stay fit I think he would be a good signing. H.H.
Canamalar we are in discussions with quite a few of them, Mike is twisting a few arms, so to speak, por cierto.
Strange timing re LG charge.
Is the mickeybhoy1888 the taxi guy that fleeces his own fans or am I gettin him confused wi another dick that posts on here?
New article will be up with Soal odds on favourite to be first poster