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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What has 20pair of eyes&no teeth?
The font row of a Andy Cameron gig.:)
Not surprised John Guidetti has postponed signing a permanent contract, that’s what footballers do, largely due to how much money they and their representatives can make, but only when the time comes.
John Guidetti has no loyalty to Celtic despite the fact that we resurrected a stuttering career, and put him on the podium, where he could bang in some goals and rebuild himself a name. His protracted talks eventually coincided with form loss and injury, so his decision to wait for a better deal hasn’t paid off, just yet.
Celtic could easily marginalize JG and have already begun the process of replacing him in his role as single striker, with the promotion of Leigh Griffiths. When Scepovic was brought the other night JG disappeared up the tunnel in a flounce, maybe he needed ‘to go’ anyway he returned to the bench.
If he’s banging on the first team door he’ll return, but only then.
Celtic have LG, SS, and AS who can all play in the lead striker role which isn’t about to alter as we’ve learned by now it’s Ronny’s way, which is eleven (if Craig Gordon comes up for a corner) potential goalscorers.
A pair of strikers is dead, and we’ve even seen full backs scoring more goals this season than they would dreamed have under previous managers. RD stated almost as soon as the window opened he expected to be working on transfers right until the last day, it’s the way Celtic do it, and the January window is for adjustments, and never part of long term planning.
Celtic should be reviewing whether LG SS and AS good enough for the CL qualification in 2015/16, if they come up short, we should have the name(s) of their successors, pencilled in now.
Here’s what a striker looks like
Gardeners question time coming up on R4
What’s the chances ?
Siesta time zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
HT I’ll keep my ears open for you.
I have already given mine away.
I’ll give this one a swerve.
HH
G M
Gotcha!! 0)
It all counts i guess but their filthy taig money will need exchanged for good,clean notes”.
You know FR was a multi million pound footballer, made plenty of cash, had a great lifestyle.
He has been struck down with a horrendous disease, one of which our own Jimmy Johnstone died of. I feel for the guy and his predicament, he has the background to make some money to see him through, hopefully for many a year to come.
I am glad that Celtic have contributed to this venture of making FR some money.
Jimmy, I don’t know how well off financially he was prior to his death, but he certainly didn’t make the sums of FR
There are plenty who struggle through illness and don’t have the luxury of falling back on their previous employers.
FR I never liked as a player he hated us and you could see it in him.
Jimmy Johnstone well he was one of us in birth and death.
The above Taig money comment brought to mind a banner at Celtic Park one afternoon.
Desmond White sucks ☆☆☆☆ in hell.
Anyone want them back
Ayrshire is Green and White
Livibhoy,
Re: Andy Cameron.
He took his road show to our local social club yeeears ago.
The bould Andy asks for some jokes from the punters.
My mate (Musta been about 8ish) gets up and says
“how do you make a snooker table laugh?”
Andy replies with the usual…..
My mate says ” put yer hand in its pocket and tickle it’s baws!”
So funny at the time but even funnier looking back as an adult. :)
Liveradio csc
macanbheatha oscar abú
Dude, you need to call in…….
Hello. Hello. My name’s Kenneth. Just getting into gardening for the first time. Helping my chum alizdair. Wee problem with w’ur grass. It’s awfie green, awfie green. Greener than we would like. What could we do?
Cover it with snow?
Oh we tried that last week and it worked for a wee while……
But what now with the thaw it’s looking awfie green again. Awfie green……..or ‘very Charles’ as we say down our way…….
HH jamesgang
bsr
Will we ever see his likes again???
Happy Birthday HT
There are a dozen new news stories added today to the new CQN site – have a look..
http://www.cqnmagazine.com
macanbheatha Oscar Abú
15:01 on 23 January, 2015
Gardeners question time coming up on R4
What’s the chances ?
Of fat Swally answering them……….very good…………..
jude
No
til later bhoys
HH
Sally demands the names of Gardener’s Question Time panelists
mike in toronto
14:49 on
23 January, 2015
It’s the intangibles though. We invariably play better as a team when Scott Brown is in it.
Sally says he has told the ipox groundsman to plant some early varieties so they are sure of lifting something at the end of the season
HT
I hope you get a ticket. I am not sure how often you have procured briefs ( I love that old word!) for others but I know it is a lot.If there is any justice, someone will return the favour.
JJ
Found this whilst trying to explain hubris to the youngest girl.
Now I wonder who we could apply these words to?
Catching the Hubris Express
Living your life as if you’re alone,
the only one alive.
Surrounding yourself in an
air of arrogance,
as if no one and nothing else matters.
Worried more about catching the next train
than facing what you’ve done.
You know this is wrong,
completely unforgivable;
yet you carry on nevertheless,
distracting yourself, so as not to acknowledge
the trail of tears left behind.
But, you see, a mistake has
been made. For, I believe,
you have finally met your match.
One who will call your bluff,
charge you with just crimes,
and try you with due process.
No longer shall you be one of
masochism and misogyny.
Ahh, but sadly, one of your
delusional grandeur does
not change his ways
so easily.
Weeminger,
I’m not claiming Broony is a world beater but I checked out one of those stat sites a while back and it claimed we won 80% of games with Broony and 20% less without him.
£3million for Armstrong –mmm.
Recently had the experience of watching Empoli 0 -Inter 0 with my elderly Inter mad neighbour .
He spent 90 minutes hurling abuse at the tele re how ******* useless Inter were . One rant intrigued me —– ” 120 million euros worth of shit “———I Googled — Yes ——@ 120 million euros
That’s my daughter just off the phone, arrived in Derry with her two friends, a present for her birthday, which was earlier in the week.
I’m sure the girls will have a grand time, although I’ll have a sleepless weekend. :((
JJ
Thanks Jim, fingers crossed someone can help.
In the SPL Celtic have played Ross County 9 times with 4 wins 4 draws and 1 defeat.
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South Of Tunis
£3m is being quoted by die hard United fan Jim Spence.
I doubt they will get that much.
If Ronny Deila wants the man Celtic have to go get him. It’s important the manager gets the players he wants.
£8k per week or thereabouts. If we sign a £3m player from any other nation they will earn at least double that. It’s not just the initial fee that needs to be considered but the overall cost of the player over the period he is with us.
Man Utd appear to have about £200m worth of shoite! It’s not uncommon in modern fitba to be honest.
LB
frannyb67
15:01 on 23 January, 2015
What has 20pair of eyes&no teeth?
The font row of a Andy Cameron gig.:)
________
Or the first twenty posters on Pauls blog :))
“Office Hun” now there’s a term I haven’t heard for a while.
It must be heavenly at this time having your own office hun.
Do they engage or do you need to trawl them?
Working from home does have many advantages of course but that’s one delight I miss.
P
Sips
You do realise that Derry is the Newcastle of the six counties? :-)
Weeminger
As I said previously, I accept (in fact, I believe, although I haven’t checked) that we probably gained more points per game when SB is in the team, than when he is out.
That might mean, in the past, and with the coaching/players and (most importantly, playing style) we then had, he was effective. But, we are moving in a different direction, and with a different style of play… one which SB is not really equipped (he can run all day, which RD seems to like, but his passing is not up to the standard required for RD’s style of game).
Under NFL, it was about last man defending/blood and guts football … all heart and little skill …. SB excelled at that . It was horses for courses … SB was a NFL type of player
So, I will accept that in the past we have been better with SB than without … but the parameters are changing … I think a McGinn would bring some of what SB does, plus more that is relevant and useful to the current team, particularly given the direction in which we are heading.
Whether we would have a better PPG previously with or without SB is impossible to PROVE. But I suspect that, given that SB was a NFL type player, it stands to reason that players suitable to a system would lead to a higher PPG.
Now, however, SB is not suitable to the passing style RD wants to play, so I suspect that our PPG would improve if we had a RD style player in the key mid role.
But, once again, I will watch Sb tomorrow, and hopefully, will see him growing into the role that RD wants/needs him to play.
There is a story in the Herald Diary about a child calling Cameron’s radio show with a joke. “what vegetable makes your eyes water”, Andy chirps in,”an onion”
“Nope”
Stumped he gives in, and asks for the answer
“A turnip”
“a turnip, how does that make your eyes water”
“well, if you get hit in the b*ws wi’ a turnip, it will make your eyes water” replied the urchin
Mike in Toronto
You are one tough hombre!
If Leigh Griffiths and Stokesie can develop under RD, then SB Deffo can binders I’d argue he’s been consistently doing so for several years already.
HH jamesgang
Pod i
Our particilar wee office hun just needs a wee prod (see what I did there) to push him over the edge into full on hun rage.
I swear there is a wee black cloud sits above him all day as he sits muttering away at his wee hun desk.
Great entertainment.
Binders?’wtf iPhone!
Should read ‘in fact’
HH jamesgang
macanbheatha oscar abú,
Cheers for that, you’ve really put my mind at rest :)
Sipsini
Daughters equals Grecian 2000 mate.:)
Mike in Toronto
As I have said to overseas supporters before, Scott Brown brings something to the game that is so much more obvious live than it is on TV. He is the heart of the Celtic team and someone to whom most of the other players look when inspiration and reassurance is required. He is very, very influential on the park.
Incidentally, I was shown a photo of you and Torontony when I visited CQN Corner on Wednesday. Even had I not known, I would instantly put you down as a couple of Bhoys 0:-)
Another point. Scott Brown`s passing is often criticised on here . It used to be poor. It is now much improved and occasionally excellent (see goal 4, I think, on Wednesday night). When a reputation, good or bad, is born, it takes quite some time for it to die.
JJ
Por Cierto at four o’clock, in the diary :)