Ivan Toney bet against his own club to lose 13 times but was spared a longer gambling ban after being diagnosed with an addiction.
The Brentford striker was slapped with an eight month suspension after an FA investigation found him guilty of multiple breaches of gambling rules. Now the written report into the case has been published, and had revealed that Toney gambled 29 times on games involving the club he was either registered with or on loan to, which include Champions League qualifiers Newcastle.
16 of those bets were on Toney ’s team to win in 15 games, 11 of which Toney played in. More seriously, he wagered 13 times that his parent club or loan club would lose, although didn’t play in any of those fixtures. Other punts were on himself to score in games before it was publicly known that he’d be starting or in the matchday squad.
