TheBrownBottle

In my profession, allowing yourself to be in a position where your professional position ethics could be questioned is the same as having questionable ethics. He’s gambling on a sport where he could be privy to insider knowledge - and if he bets on his own club, then it is insider knowledge. Worse, he could be involved in match-fixing. I’m aware that he hasn’t been accused of that, but he is open to a potential accusation. The rules aren’t puritanical, they’re perfectly sensible. Again, it’s hardly a big ask - don’t bet on football. Most of us can live our entire lives not doing this.

Not sure if it is in Tonali’s, but I remember Joey Barton whining that Ashley tried to get him to agree to a reduced contract while he behind bars. Joey Barton - a man so lacking in self-awareness that he can actually make me sympathise with Mike Ashley.

It’s hardly a massive curb on their human rights to expect the dozy fuckers not to bet on a sport in which they are a professional. Leaving yourself open to allegations of corrupt practice isn’t much better than actual corruption. It brings the profession into disrepute

Looks like Howe is going to get a lengthy pre-season to get Tonali’s fitness levels to Howe-ball levels.

Fagioli is a right grass. Let’s gan and egg his hoose

That also doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement of wor Sandro

AC Milan’s DoF, after the transfer ..,

True enough, though the clubs also have much longer tentacles and far more money to spend on them. It’ll come out in the wash soon enough. We’ve still no idea what the lad is actually meant to have done - the story changes daily.

Haha aye, true enough. The days of Kevin Keegan prowling bookies looking for Keith Gillespie may be a thing of the past

If Brian Clough and Peter Taylor could figure this out in the 1970s I’m sure it’s not beyond the wit of man to work it out today. Usually other players, coaches, club employees etc.

It is possible to find out if a player is partial to a bet without hacking their phone

I still find it hard to comment - and wouldn’t allow the Italian press to make my mind up. If he’s bet on his own team’s games, he’s a fucking idiot, and will be lucky to escape with a one year ban. The guilty in the Totonero scandal got much longer (they were done as the betting also involved match fixing, but a day ago apparently he was just playing blackjack). Also whoever in the scouting team who did the character assessment has dropped a massive bollock if this proves true.

that won’t happen

Italy are so numbingly average I don’t think they’ve got the players to do it. I watched their game at home vs North Macedonia last year when they lost and got knocked out of the WC playoffs. That was the same story. They’ve got nowt about them.

The Sheff Wed band gave that dirge some accompaniment

You’d think not qualifying for two consecutive WCs would be bad enough for Italy, but if they don’t qualify for a 24-team Euros that would surely be the nadir. UEFA has basically made it impossible for any side which isn’t completely and utterly shite not to qualify.

I wouldn’t hoy any money on Italy, either.

Kane is a blinding centre forward like

Maguire - though the fact that my brain took more than a microsecond to process the answer is damning

It was pisspoor GKing mind

*Sean Longstaff reads this and smiles*

All about Bellingham that one. Sublime.

It hasn’t been replayed on the Australian feed tbh - haven’t had the chance to see it again. He went down like he’d been shot

That Sheff Wed band having been going for over quarter of a century now, and they are a still a fucking blight on England matches.

Spectacular dive from Foden, that