The FA has suspended Brentford player Ivan Toney for eight months after being charged in relation to breaking the league's betting rules.
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00:00 Hello there everybody, Adam Cleary from 442 here and I will get straight to the point.
00:08 Ivan Tony has today been suspended by the FA for eight months.
00:13 Wow.
00:14 Now, he somehow managed to miss this whole story.
00:16 It relates to the Football Association's regulations regarding players and their ability to gamble
00:21 on the sport.
00:22 Tony was charged with 232 breaches of this in November last year and then another 30
00:28 in December.
00:29 The subsequent 30 were later withdrawn but those original 232 were not and have been
00:33 sort of dangling over his career ever since.
00:36 And they date as far back as 2017 when Tony was playing for Scunthorpe while he was on
00:40 loan at Newcastle.
00:41 The FA's statement on the matter reads as follows, "Ivan Tony has been suspended from
00:45 all football and football-related activity with immediate effect for eight months, fined
00:50 £50,000 and warned as to his future conduct for breaches of the FA's betting rules."
00:55 The Brentford FC forward was charged with 262 breaches of FA Rule E3 in total between
01:00 the 25th of February 2017 and the 23rd of January 2021.
01:05 The FA subsequently withdrew 30 of these breaches but he admitted to the remaining 232.
01:10 His sanctions were subsequently imposed by an independent regulatory commission following
01:14 a personal hearing.
01:15 He is permitted to return to training only with his club for the final four months of
01:19 his suspension starting from the 17th of September 2023.
01:23 The independent regulatory commission's written reasons for these sanctions will be
01:27 published in due course and the FA will wait to review them before commenting further.
01:30 Brentford have also put out their own statement but it contains absolutely nothing of any
01:34 consequence.
01:35 It just basically says, "We have taken note of this, we have seen it and we await the
01:38 written reasons."
01:39 And just in case you're wondering, that eight month ban puts Ivan Tony out of the picture
01:42 until the middle of January next year, meaning any chances of a big summer move are now pretty
01:47 remote.
01:48 So just to wrap up, he's going to miss the final games of Brentford's season, he's
01:50 going to miss all of the England internationals in the summer, then he's going to miss the
01:53 bulk of next season as well.
01:56 That is pretty big.
01:58 What do you think?
01:59 Is that fair?
02:00 Is that justified?
02:01 Is that really, really harsh?
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02:11 I've been Adam Cleary, this has been 442 and I'll see you soon.