Ivan Toney Banned Until 2024 Over Betting Charges

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

00:20 to gamble 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00:29 The subsequent 30 were later withdrawn but those original 232 were not and have been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.

01:31 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

01:48 remote.

01:49 So just to wrap up, he's going to miss the final games of Brentford's season, he's

01:51 going to miss all of the England internationals in the summer, then he's going to miss the

01:54 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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02:10 In the meantime though, thank you so much for watching.

02:11 I've been Adam Cleary, this has been 442 and I'll see you soon.