Live Match Discussion 2022/23

[Jack Regan]

How the F is that not a second yellow card?

 

[Alan]

Am I blind? That seems a really soft penalty.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Looked soft yeah. Toney is brilliant at penalties though. Love the short run up style.

 

[Alan]

Pereira seems like a bit of an ass, but he's a really decent little player, IMO.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Audacious effort from Toney there.

 

[Jack Regan]

Pereira seems like a bit of an ass, but he's a really decent little player, IMO.

Proper irritating petulant child of a footballer. The kind of player you don't mind having when they're and the teams playing well, but a massive liability when they're not.

 

[Tony Towner]

Schooled at Man Utd...

 

[Dire Wolf]

Brentford up to their usual shithousing tactics.

 

[Alan]

Fuck sake, Jedi, that ain't great.

Frank is a good manager, annoying as that is.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Brentford look pretty likely to make Europe. Crikey.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

It will have been talked about already I know but given the charges, how has Toney not been dealt with and is still playing? Four month ban starting at the end of April he wagers.

 

[Alan]

It will have been talked about already I know but given the charges, how has Toney not been dealt with and is still playing? Four month ban starting at the end of April he wagers.

Unless I've missed something, the whole scandal is a crock.

Never bet on games he was involved in himself, did he?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

You're not allowed to bet on football full stop.

 

[Johnny75]

Unless I've missed something, the whole scandal is a crock.

Never bet on games he was involved in himself, did he?

Still against the rules Alan.

Toney could run up serious debts gambling and those unscrupulous bookies may well ask him to do something in a Brentford game to wipe out his debts. (I'm not saying this is true, I'm saying it's why they're not allowed to do it)

Players know they can't do it.

 

[Alan]

Seems far-fetched to me, but there's a logic there, at least.

I know they're not supposed to but aside from the above scenario I struggle to get worked up by bets on matches the player has no influence over.

 

[Kenny]

Seems far-fetched to me, but there's a logic there, at least.

I know they're not supposed to but aside from the above scenario I struggle to get worked up by bets on matches the player has no influence over.

Another angle - A player could well know someone in a game could get them to do something for them.
A lot of maybe's and unlikely's but 100% ban means none of them should happen.

Then you get things like Trippier not denying where he is moving too and his mates betting on it and winning or Daniel Sturridge telling his mates who he is joining...they all bet big and he drops some mega bantz and joins West Brom instead.

 

[Alan]

Bah, network theory. Yeah, that's all fair enough, really.

Well boo. I guess it is weird that he's been allowed to continue on, then.

 

[Carrotdude]

It does look ridiculous when every player basically wears a betting company logo on their shirt.

I think his thing is being dragged out with appeals and stuff but you think Brentford would rather get his ban started now seeing as they’re completely safe

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They're also one point off a European slot with two games in hand...

 

[Derby Wolf]

The bigger scandal is the football authorities allowing so many parasite gambling companies into the game via adverts and sponsorship and then being surprised when a player who is time rich with money to burn might actually start gambling.

Players should be banned from betting on football but it's got to be hand in hand with regulation on their prominence in the game.