Footballer Joey Barton charged with placing 44 bets on matches The Scottish Football Association has a no-betting policy on games and if found guilty Barton could face a ban. 16:51, UK,Wednesday 05 October 2016 please log in to view this image Image Caption:Barton joined Rangers in May Rangers midfielder Joey Barton has been charged with placing 44 bets on football matches by the Scottish Football Association. The alleged bets took place between 1 July and 15 September, the Scottish FA said. The SFA has a no-betting policy on games and if found guilty Barton could face a ban. He has until 12 October to respond to the notice of complaint, with a hearing set for 27 October. please log in to view this image Image Caption:Barton poses for photographs after signing for Rangers It emerged last month that Barton was under investigation by the SFA and Gambling Commission after it was claimed he had bet on Celtic to lose heavily to Barcelona in the Champions League. The SFA statement reveals the allegations against the 34-year-old run far deeper. Barton, who joined Rangers in May, is already serving a three-week ban from the club after a training ground altercation following a 5-1 defeat to Celtic. He was initially banished from the club for five days - and this was extended for a further three weeks after talks with manager Mark Warburton and board members failed to resolve the situation. The club has told him not to talk to the media after he angered Warburton by calling the ban "strange" in a radio interview. It is understood the altercation was not the first time he has argued with his teammates.
Managerial qualifications enhanced. One or two heavy bribes and some tax evasion, and he'll be England management material
Strange this attention comes just as he's releases his book. I suspect he knows exactly what he's doing, not sure he gives a toss about the football now.
Rangers bad boy Joey Barton charged with betting on 44 football matches Midfielder Joey Barton is alleged to have gambled on 44 football matches The Rangers man is said to have done so between July 1 and September 15 The SFA has a strict no-betting policy and if guilty Barton could face a ban He is serving a club-imposed three-week ban after a training altercation Sportsmail's chief sports reporter Matt Lawton spoke to Barton last month Rangers midfielder Joey Barton has landed himself in hot water again after being charged with betting on 44 football matches. The 34-year-old former Manchester City and Newcastle United player is alleged to have gambled on the games between July 1 and September 15 this year. Barton, who joined his Glasgow club on a free transfer this summer, has until Wednesday, October 12 to respond to the charge with a hearing set for Thursday, October 27. please log in to view this image Rangers midfielder Joey Barton has been charged with betting on 44 football matches please log in to view this image Barton spoke to Sportsmail's chief sports reporter Matt Lawton last month: Read it HERE EXTRACT FROM BARTON'S NEW BOOK, 'NO NONSENSE' 'He (Barton's cellmate, Billy) urged me to find my place in the system, which I duly discovered scanning the racing page. I had a eureka moment studying the form, and realised the prison lacked a bookie. I borrowed Billy's chocolate stash to establish a float, gave us insurance by skimming the original odds, and recorded all bets in a notebook. Before long we were an illegitimate version of Cadbury World. 'I diversified, using my inside knowledge to create a range of markets for that summer's European Championships in Austria and Switzerland. It didn't matter that England had failed to qualify. I offered odds on opening goalscorer, number of cards, timing of goals and the final result. When confectionery supplies ran low, we accepted toiletries, bedding and food privileges as stakes. 'The screws inevitably discovered our scam, but were sanguine about its success, since they trusted us to prevent inmates getting too deep into debt.' It emerged last month that Barton was under investigation by the Scottish Football Association and Gambling Commission after claims he had bet on Celtic to suffer a heavy defeat to Barcelona in their opening Champions League match. The statement from the SFA revealed that the allegations against Barton run far deeper. Joey Barton: I’d make a far better England boss than Sam... 'Disciplinary Rule 31: In that between 1st July and 15th September 2016, both dates inclusive, you placed 44 bets upon football matches, and accordingly gambled upon football matches in contravention of Disciplinary Rule 31,' the SFA statement read. The SFA has a strict no-betting policy on football games and if found guilty Barton could face a ban. please log in to view this image Barton stretches during Rangers training last month - he is no stranger to controversy SFA RULES ON BETTING 26.1: A club, official, team official or other member of team staff, player, referee or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA shall not gamble in any way on a football match. Any such club or person found guilty of gambling of any description on football shall be deemed guilty of misconduct and shall be liable to such sanctions in respect thereof as are prescribed within the Judicial Panel Protocol. He is currently serving a club-imposed three-week ban after a training ground altercation. In September, Barton was forced to apologise 'unreservedly' for making 'inappropriate' comments after being banished from Rangers' training ground following an internal dispute. The combative player is understood to have been sent home following an altercation with team-mate Andy Halliday, and told to stay away. He is due to return to training at Rangers on Monday. Sportsmail understands the confrontation was the third incident Barton has been involved in since joining the club in May. please log in to view this image Barton complains to the referee during Rangers' game with Annan Athletic earlier this term Two former Rangers players are among those to have been punished for breaching the SFA's blanket ban on football betting. Goalkeeper Steve Simonsen missed one game after betting on 55 matches and Ian Black earlier served a three-match suspension for gambling on 140 matches, including several he played in. The midfielder scored in a 4-2 victory over East Stirlingshire after predicting the Gers would draw in an accumulator. But the SFA charge leaves Barton even more vulnerable after his club suspension cast major doubt on whether he would play for Rangers again. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3823595/Rangers-bad-boy-Joey-Barton-charged-betting-44-football-matches.html#ixzz4MEhcpKLm Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Rather than chastise him, why not acknowledge him, and ...... give him a Lifetime Achievement Award for being a Career Dickhead!
He seemed to be turning it around at Burnley, manager had him playing well and fitting in with the team. Seems to have gone crazy since he went up in Scotland . Must be the weather ...
Lovely and sunny up here today! The media are loving it up here, headlinr news, especially as it's during an international break and there's no old firm.bitching going on
Deluded player but I like his off field activities and agree with him on a lot of things What we are talking about is his reputation In football it's been a lot better at Burnley and can't argue his work ethic but his albility is poor IMO It's not the footballer I like but as a person he says a lot of good things I am very pleased he isn't at our club so it is now just a laughable news story and what reputation did he ever have anyway after his thug days People don't change so why question it I say Really crap player on the ball and he is a ball watcher that runs a lot Worse corner kicks at LR I have ever seen and by his own admission to me many times he jokes he has no idea where they are going
On the lighter side:- please log in to view this image Barton charged for repeatedly betting that matches would be interrupted by two men in horse costume Rangers midfielder in hot water for more illicit gambling, reports Back of the Net. Rangers star Joey Barton has been charged by the Scottish Football Association for placing 44 separate bets that football matches would be interrupted by a pantomime horse. Barton, formerly of Manchester City, QPR and the Sorbonne, is accused of breaching SFA rules by wagering 44 times between July and September this year that two people dressed as a single horse would successfully evade pitchside security at football matches all over the UK. The 33-year-old midfielder stood to win a substantial sum of money had two or more individuals – one acting as the horse’s back legs, and the other as its front legs and head – entered the pitch and charged around wildly for several minutes, causing play to be suspended while stewards attempted to bring the costumed intruders under control. Finer details “ He’d come in here every Saturday morning looking confident, and then he’d come in again on Wednesday looking sad but determined and double his stake, sometimes adding a detail like the colour of the horse - Bookie Barton is also understood to have bet ‘each way’ that the back and front halves of the horse would separate, and that each half would continue to be chased around the pitch by security personnel, their mazy running causing the hapless stewards to run into one another at the very moment they seemed poised to bring them down. Then, according to the fine print of Barton’s bet, the two halves would reunite before charging down the tunnel together, ditching the costume and escaping into the sunset on a moped while the furious chief steward shook a fist impotently at their exhaust fumes. A spokesman for Glaswegian bookmakers Knack of the Bet said: “A match being suspended because of two men in a pantomime horse costume is not a bet we see very often, to be honest, but Mr Barton seemed incredibly confident it would happen just as he described, right down to the make of the moped and its cylindrical capacity. please log in to view this image “He’d come in here every Saturday morning looking confident, and then he’d come in again on Wednesday looking sad but determined and double his stake, sometimes adding a detail like the colour of the horse or the girth of the chief steward. “He was absolutely sure that sooner or later, a football match somewhere would be interrupted by two men, or women, pretending to be a disruptive horse, and he was prepared to put his career on the line for it.” Appropriate behaviour An SFA spokesman said: “Gambling on men in horse costumes interrupting football matches is in clear contravention of Disciplinary Rule 31a, which specifies that players may only bet on matches being interrupted by several children standing on one another’s shoulders pretending to be a tall man in an overcoat. “This has happened three times so far this season, which is about average for this time of year, but we acknowledge that this is a continuing problem in Scottish football and we are taking steps to stamp it out.” Please note: This fictional news story is not real. Obviously Read more at http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...ted-two-men-horse-costume#y7y12CL08w2PXGoB.99
Joey now had his suspension increased by another week, looks like he's on his way out of Rangers. I wouldn't be surprised to see him return to Burnley...
I think you may find that his suspension from the SFA would stop that happening before January at the earliest! He could be given seperate suspensions for EACH bet that he placed. That could then be nearly four years worth! They couldn't reduce the tariff much for good behaviour after all!
They reckon Rangers are going to pay £2m to pay up his contract as they can't find legitimate reasons to sack him. Where will they get £2m from? The chances of Her Majesty's Government collecting taxes from Servco again this year will be considerably reduced if they have to pay him off. Before he moved there, he boldly claimed he would prove himself to be the best player in Scotland. After his performance in the first old firm game, Scottish Football will miss having a good laugh at his over estimated opinion of himself.
