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Ivan Toney placed 13 historical bets on his own club to lose and has been diagnosed with a gambling addiction, as the written reasons for his eight-month ban have been revealed by the FA.
In the written reasons explaining the eight-month ban the Brentford striker, 27, received last week for breaching the FA's betting rules, it has also been revealed:
126 bets were in matches in a competition in which Toney's club had participated in or were eligible to participate in that season.
Of those 126 bets, 29 bets or instructions to bet were in respect of the club that Mr Toney was registered with or on loan with at the time.
Of those 29 bets there were 16 bets on Mr Toney's own team to win 15 different matches. Mr Toney played in 11 of these games and was an unused substitute in another game.
Of those 29 bets, there were 13 bets on Mr Toney's own team to lose in 7 different matches between 22 August 2017 and 3 March 2018. Mr Toney did not play in any of those matches where he placed bets against his loan club as he was not in the match squad or against his parent club as he was on loan. Of the 13 bets 11 were against Newcastle whilst Mr Toney was on loan at another club.
The other 2 bets related to a game between Wigan vs Aston Villa whilst the player was on loan at Wigan but he was not part of the squad.
There was also a breach of FA Rule E8.2 namely an inside information charge whereby on 29 March 2018 Mr Toney informed a friend he would be starting in his club's next match. The circumstances in which this information was provided are unclear. It is said on behalf of the player not to really amount to inside information because everyone would have known he was likely to play. However, Mr Toney has accepted it as a breach.
According to the FA's document, had Toney not pleaded guilty to the charges against him, the FA would have imposed a 15-month ban starting from the beginning of next season, "to properly reflect the seriousness of the offences admitted including betting on one's own team to lose, albeit he was not playing."
By pleading guilty, however, he is seen to have saved substantial time and cost, leading to a 25 per cent reduction to 11 months.
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