{"id":298033,"date":"2023-12-01T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T09:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=298033"},"modified":"2023-12-01T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T09:54:12","slug":"ex-efl-star-who-served-betting-ban-wants-gambling-adverts-axed-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/ex-efl-star-who-served-betting-ban-wants-gambling-adverts-axed-from-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-EFL star who served betting ban wants gambling adverts axed from football"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    It\u2019s fair to say football\u2019s relationship with gambling is a game of two halves.<\/p>\n

    On one hand, players are forbidden from placing any kind of bet on a match. For instance, a non-league part-timer cannot even gamble on the Champions League or World Cup. In contrast, footballers and stadiums are effectively billboards for gambling companies, which lavish huge sums on sport, and football in particular. <\/p>\n

    A number of players have fallen foul of betting rules and paid the price, Brentford striker Ivan Toney and Newcastle's Sandro Tonali being high-profile examples. But they aren't the first and probably won\u2019t be the last. <\/p>\n

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    Last year, former Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday and Aberdeen forward Chris Maguire\u2019s career was put on hold amid football betting allegations. He was initially charged with more than 50 breaches but pleaded not guilty to most having been the victim of identity fraud. Having been suspended by Lincoln, his club at the time, in August 2022, he was initially fined \u00a3750 by an independent regulatory commission and given a warning, only for the FA to appeal against the sanction. <\/p>\n

    In January, he was eventually handed a six-week ban, but as it was backdated to the previous November, he could resume his career. The breaches of FA regulations related to 10 bets placed by Maguire.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cIt was difficult,\u201d the Eastleigh striker tells Daily Star Sport<\/b> ahead of his side\u2019s FA Cup second round tie with Reading on Sunday. \u201cIt came out and people just assumed I was guilty. <\/p>\n

    \u201cThere were things that came out which were a shock to me because I think they charged me with 52 bets, which was a complete surprise. I then found out that accounts were made up in my name.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI got found guilty of 10 bets which, in the grand scheme of things, is nothing. It\u2019s actually like two bets because each team on an accumulator is one bet.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cThat was a tough period in my career. I left Lincoln and then my future was a bit unknown because I had this charge over my head. Now it\u2019s behind me and I can just focus on playing football.\u201d<\/p>\n

    While it is an episode the 34-year-old is keen to put behind him, he has strong views on the game\u2019s links with the gambling industry and would like to see a blanket ban on betting advertising in the game.<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt\u2019s day-to-day life, footballers are human beings who make mistakes,\u201d he reflects. \u201cIn this day and age, when you\u2019ve got things like that thrown in your face, you never know what\u2019s going on in people\u2019s lives. It\u2019s obviously a problem and I think you need to take the whole betting stuff out of football, to take it away from players.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cIt\u2019s all right saying they get [paid] good money, this, that and the other. But if the FA want to be really strong about it then there shouldn\u2019t be any advertising to do with gambling.<\/p>\n

    \u201cFor what the rules are, the amount it\u2019s in your face, the punishment\u2026 It\u2019s happened to myself, it\u2019s happened to loads of players. I\u2019m not the first and I won\u2019t be the last person to get found betting. I think it needs to get looked at properly to resolve it.\u201d<\/p>\n