Joey Barton got 18 month ban for similar breaches, reduced to 15 months on appeal. Be interesting to see what Toney gets.
Just checked - Barton was 1260 over a ten year period, Toney is 262 in just under four years. If you extrapolate it over the time frame, Barton's is roughly twice as many. The FA said at the time his suspension was the minimum possible so if you go by amount of bets ( and I don't know why you should because 262 is still a very large amount) Toney could be facing a 9 month ban.
In fairness to toney.... Barton was got rid of using this. His antics were constant and I think it was a good excuse to nail him. Toney, well he knew the rules here. Everyone does so he's dead to rights and should be a 12month ban.
Var stats are in. Apparently there were only 48 incidents requiring var this season... apparently... now its used on every goal etc so I would say its used to confirm far much amd delays the obvious bit anyway. The number they are saying is 48. They claim to have gotten 42 right. So they got 6 out of 48 wrong with the power for review. That's 12.5% wrong when given the benefit of multiple replays. Now they further admit completely missing 6 incidents that should have been reviewed. So it's not 48 it's 54 and 12 out of 54 is 22% So var only get it right 78% of the time... and that is a shocking poor figure given they are supposedly pro refs with multiple replays to review Oh and as a footnote, they won't say what they made errors on nor will they say what they missed. So as transparent as ever then. With a culture like that its no wonder they can't get it right.
48 for the season so far? That seems incredibly low. Quick calculation... Teams have played 14/15 games, times that by ten matches in each round of fixture and that's a total of 140-150 assuming there is ONLY one per match. Clearly more than one per game too
Still championship side that utd should be beating irrespective. If we got such an easy game I'd not be saying we were great if we won. It'd be expected.
