The FA

[Hyena]

https://www.thefa.com/news/2023/may/17/ivan-toney-suspended-170523

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Ivan Toney has been suspended from all football and football-related activity with immediate effect for eight months, which runs up to and including 16 January 2024, fined £50,000 and warned as to his future conduct for breaches of The FA’s Betting Rules.
The Brentford FC forward was charged with 262 breaches of FA Rule E8 in total between 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021. The FA subsequently withdrew 30 of these breaches and he admitted to the remaining 232.
His sanctions were subsequently imposed by an independent Regulatory Commission following a personal hearing. He is permitted to return to training only with his club for the final four months of his suspension starting from 17 September 2023.
The independent Regulatory Commission’s written reasons for these sanctions will be published in due course, and The FA will wait to review them before commenting further.
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I have to say, I'm quite shocked by the severity of this sanction. He didn't even bet on his own matches.

 

[Modo]

Agreed. It's fucking stupid

 

[binomial]

Are you serious?

3 of those 8 months are he'd be enjoying a long summer break anyway.

50k fine is also a bit pathetic.

& why have you titled the thread "The FA" and not something more like Ivan Toney banned? I thought this was gonna be about Klopp.

 

[The Nomad]

The Fucking Audacity?

He knew the rules. A half season ban is fair as long as he can train with the team.

 

[Hyena]

Are you serious?

3 of those 8 months are he'd be enjoying a long summer break anyway.

50k fine is also a bit pathetic.

& why have you titled the thread "The FA" and not something more like Ivan Toney banned? I thought this was gonna be about Klopp.

I was originally going to title it Ivan Toney but to me the ban says a lot more about the FA than it does Toney.

Anyway, Bluebell will soon be telling us which midfielders to sign so it doesn't matter what the thread is titled.

 

[binomial]

"Ivan Toney banned by the FA"

It's the punishment, of course it'll say more about the FA then Toney, we've known about what Toney's done for months......

 

[Fabio]

Weird punishment, seems stupid. But thats the FA all over

 

[tombrown]

The Fucking Audacity?

He knew the rules. A half season ban is fair as long as he can train with the team.

Does "football-related activity" include training?

 

[Richey]

Does "football-related activity" include training?

Sounds like he is allowed to train again from September.

 

[bluebell]

I was originally going to title it Ivan Toney but to me the ban says a lot more about the FA than it does Toney.

Anyway, Bluebell will soon be telling us which midfielders to sign so it doesn't matter what the thread is titled.

@The Nomad admitted he wasn't clear.
Anyway what's your thought on us being linked Southampton's CB, Choumba - Choumba, £25m is the reported fee?

 

[darkstarexodus]

Does "football-related activity" include training?

More important, does it include betting on football? He's going to have a lot of free time on his hands these next months.

 

[Bradley]

75k fine for Klopp and a two game (1 suspended) touch line ban.

So in the eyes of the FA, Klopp being a bit mean towards referees is a financially more serious matter than the betting thing. It's all weird.

 

[binomial]

75k fine for Klopp and a two game (1 suspended) touch line ban.

So in the eyes of the FA, Klopp being a bit mean towards referees is a financially more serious matter than the betting thing. It's all weird.

I don’t know how much the FA has a say in how much people get fined, I think in Klopp’s case its more to do with the independent commission.