Breaking News: ' Joey barton '
Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:12 pm
Breaking news Joey Barton suspended for 18 months and fined £30,000
Sky Sports
26/04/17
Joey Barton banned for 18 months by FA and says it effectively ends his career
Joey Barton has been suspended from all football activity for 18 months with immediate effect after he admitted a Football Association misconduct charge related to betting.
Barton is alleged to have placed 1,260 bets on football matches between March 2006 and May 2013.
The 34-year-old midfielder started his career with Manchester City and has played for Newcastle, QPR, Marseille and Rangers. He also has one full England cap.
In January, he rejoined Burnley after a successful stint with the Premier League club in 2015/16 and has played 13 league games this campaign, scoring once.
Barton is planning to appeal and has made a lengthy statement, which he has published on his website. The player said: “The decision effectively forces me into an early retirement from playing football. To be clear from the outset here this is not match fixing and at no point in any of this is my integrity in question. Having consulted with my friends and lawyers, I have decided I will be appealing against the length of the ban. I hope that I shall be afforded a fair hearing by an independent appeal panel. If I am, we are confident that the sanction will be reduced to a fair one that both reflects the offences as well as the mitigating factors and the fact that there was nothing untoward or suspicious about the bets I made.”
The player goes into details about how he grew up in an environment where betting was common and has gambled on sporting events all his life.
“Throughout my career I am someone who has made mistakes and owned up to those mistakes and tried to learn from them. I intend to do that here. I accept that this is one more mess I got into because of my own behaviour. This episode has brought home to me that just as I had to face up to the need to get help to deal with alcohol abuse, and with anger, so now I need to get help for my issues with gambling, and I will do so.
“As for the scale of my football betting, since 2004, on a Betfair account held in my own name, registered at my home address and verified by my own passport, with full transparency, I have placed over 15,000 bets across a whole range of sports. Just over 1,200 were placed on football and subject to the charges against me. The average bet was just over £150, many were for only a few pounds.
”Raised at the hearing was that between 2004 and 2011 I placed a handful of bets on my own team to lose matches. I accept of course that this is against the rules, for the obvious reason that a player with an additional financial stake in the game might seek to change the course of it for his own personal gain. However I’d like to offer some context.
“First, in every game I have played, I have given everything. I’m confident that anyone who has ever seen me play, or played with or against me, will confirm that to be the case. I am more aware than anyone that I have character issues that I struggle with, and my addictive personality is one of them, but I am a devoted and dedicated professional who has always given my all on the pitch.
“Second, on the few occasions where I placed a bet on my own team to lose, I was not involved in the match day squad for any of those games. I did not play. I was not even on the bench. I had no more ability to influence the outcome than had I been betting on darts, snooker, or a cricket match in the West Indies. I should add that on some of those occasions, my placing of the bet on my own team to lose was an expression of my anger and frustration at not being picked or being unable to play. I understand people will think that is childish and selfish and I cannot disagree with that.
“Third, I should point out that the last of these bets against my own team was six years ago [and in a reserve game], when I was going through a particularly troubled period, and when the FA were not nearly as hard on gambling as they are now.”
Barton states that he understands why the FA has rules on betting and acknowledging that he has broken them, but he also poses a difficult question for the football authorities and clubs.
“I think if the FA is truly serious about tackling the culture of gambling in football, it needs to look at its own dependence on the gambling companies, their role in football and in sports broadcasting, rather than just blaming the players who place a bet,” he writes.
“Surely they need to accept there is a huge clash between their rules and the culture that surrounds the modern game, where anyone who watches football on TV or in the stadia is bombarded by marketing, advertising and sponsorship by betting companies, and where much of the coverage now, on Sky for example, is intertwined with the broadcasters’ own gambling interests.
“That all means this is not an easy environment in which to try to stop gambling, or even to encourage people within the sport that betting is wrong.
“It is like asking a recovering alcoholic to spend all his time in a pub or a brewery. If the FA is serious about tackling gambling I would urge it to reconsider its own dependence on the gambling industry. I say that knowing that every time I pull on my team’s shirt, I am advertising a betting company [Burnley are sponsored by Dafabet].”
The midfielder has had a troubled history on and off the pitch. In December 2004 he was fined six weeks’ wages for stubbing a lit cigar in the eye of a young teammate during Manchester City’s Christmas party. In May 2007 Barton was suspended by the club after a training-ground altercation with Ousmane Dabo. He was charged with assault, and in July 2008 received a four-month suspended jail sentence. The FA also banned him for 12 matches, six of which were suspended and handed him a £25,000 fine.
Later that year he was arrested in Liverpool city centre after a late-night incident and was charged with common assault and affray, and in May 2008 was jailed for six months.
In May 2012 Barton was banned for 12 matches for violent conduct when playing for Queens Park Rangers. After receiving a red card for appearing to strike Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez, Barton then kicked Sergio Agüero and attempted to headbutt Vincent Kompany. The then QPR captain was also fined £75,000.
Sky Sports
26/04/17
Joey Barton banned for 18 months by FA and says it effectively ends his career
Joey Barton has been suspended from all football activity for 18 months with immediate effect after he admitted a Football Association misconduct charge related to betting.
Barton is alleged to have placed 1,260 bets on football matches between March 2006 and May 2013.
The 34-year-old midfielder started his career with Manchester City and has played for Newcastle, QPR, Marseille and Rangers. He also has one full England cap.
In January, he rejoined Burnley after a successful stint with the Premier League club in 2015/16 and has played 13 league games this campaign, scoring once.
Barton is planning to appeal and has made a lengthy statement, which he has published on his website. The player said: “The decision effectively forces me into an early retirement from playing football. To be clear from the outset here this is not match fixing and at no point in any of this is my integrity in question. Having consulted with my friends and lawyers, I have decided I will be appealing against the length of the ban. I hope that I shall be afforded a fair hearing by an independent appeal panel. If I am, we are confident that the sanction will be reduced to a fair one that both reflects the offences as well as the mitigating factors and the fact that there was nothing untoward or suspicious about the bets I made.”
The player goes into details about how he grew up in an environment where betting was common and has gambled on sporting events all his life.
“Throughout my career I am someone who has made mistakes and owned up to those mistakes and tried to learn from them. I intend to do that here. I accept that this is one more mess I got into because of my own behaviour. This episode has brought home to me that just as I had to face up to the need to get help to deal with alcohol abuse, and with anger, so now I need to get help for my issues with gambling, and I will do so.
“As for the scale of my football betting, since 2004, on a Betfair account held in my own name, registered at my home address and verified by my own passport, with full transparency, I have placed over 15,000 bets across a whole range of sports. Just over 1,200 were placed on football and subject to the charges against me. The average bet was just over £150, many were for only a few pounds.
”Raised at the hearing was that between 2004 and 2011 I placed a handful of bets on my own team to lose matches. I accept of course that this is against the rules, for the obvious reason that a player with an additional financial stake in the game might seek to change the course of it for his own personal gain. However I’d like to offer some context.
“First, in every game I have played, I have given everything. I’m confident that anyone who has ever seen me play, or played with or against me, will confirm that to be the case. I am more aware than anyone that I have character issues that I struggle with, and my addictive personality is one of them, but I am a devoted and dedicated professional who has always given my all on the pitch.
“Second, on the few occasions where I placed a bet on my own team to lose, I was not involved in the match day squad for any of those games. I did not play. I was not even on the bench. I had no more ability to influence the outcome than had I been betting on darts, snooker, or a cricket match in the West Indies. I should add that on some of those occasions, my placing of the bet on my own team to lose was an expression of my anger and frustration at not being picked or being unable to play. I understand people will think that is childish and selfish and I cannot disagree with that.
“Third, I should point out that the last of these bets against my own team was six years ago [and in a reserve game], when I was going through a particularly troubled period, and when the FA were not nearly as hard on gambling as they are now.”
Barton states that he understands why the FA has rules on betting and acknowledging that he has broken them, but he also poses a difficult question for the football authorities and clubs.
“I think if the FA is truly serious about tackling the culture of gambling in football, it needs to look at its own dependence on the gambling companies, their role in football and in sports broadcasting, rather than just blaming the players who place a bet,” he writes.
“Surely they need to accept there is a huge clash between their rules and the culture that surrounds the modern game, where anyone who watches football on TV or in the stadia is bombarded by marketing, advertising and sponsorship by betting companies, and where much of the coverage now, on Sky for example, is intertwined with the broadcasters’ own gambling interests.
“That all means this is not an easy environment in which to try to stop gambling, or even to encourage people within the sport that betting is wrong.
“It is like asking a recovering alcoholic to spend all his time in a pub or a brewery. If the FA is serious about tackling gambling I would urge it to reconsider its own dependence on the gambling industry. I say that knowing that every time I pull on my team’s shirt, I am advertising a betting company [Burnley are sponsored by Dafabet].”
The midfielder has had a troubled history on and off the pitch. In December 2004 he was fined six weeks’ wages for stubbing a lit cigar in the eye of a young teammate during Manchester City’s Christmas party. In May 2007 Barton was suspended by the club after a training-ground altercation with Ousmane Dabo. He was charged with assault, and in July 2008 received a four-month suspended jail sentence. The FA also banned him for 12 matches, six of which were suspended and handed him a £25,000 fine.
Later that year he was arrested in Liverpool city centre after a late-night incident and was charged with common assault and affray, and in May 2008 was jailed for six months.
In May 2012 Barton was banned for 12 matches for violent conduct when playing for Queens Park Rangers. After receiving a red card for appearing to strike Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez, Barton then kicked Sergio Agüero and attempted to headbutt Vincent Kompany. The then QPR captain was also fined £75,000.
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Re: Breaking News: ' Joey barton '
Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:14 pm
Joey Barton: "If the FA is serious about tackling gambling I would urge it to reconsider its own dependence on the gambling industry."
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Re: Breaking News: ' Joey barton '
Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:34 pm
Anyone else would not have got what Barton was given by the FA .
Plenty out there having a bet and been done - i wonder how many at FA Towers get on the " NEXT ENGLAND MANAGER "
Plenty out there having a bet and been done - i wonder how many at FA Towers get on the " NEXT ENGLAND MANAGER "
Re: Breaking News: ' Joey barton '
Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:30 pm
TopCat CCFC wrote:Anyone else would not have got what Barton was given by the FA .
Plenty out there having a bet and been done - i wonder how many at FA Towers get on the " NEXT ENGLAND MANAGER "
Tony, I agree with you wholly
Joey Barton (a man I don't particularly like and certainly don't respect) certainly broke the rules by some margin but whilst he needed to be punished for his actions, I agree that others with (shall we say) less of a reputation would not have received the same penalty
As you will likely know, there are many footballers (and other sports people) out there who have had the odd flutter and some have even had a so-called 'addiction', so Joey Barton is not alone
Have the FA made him a bit of a scapegoat by effectively ending his career? I tend to think so and (despite my dislike for the man himself) I find that more than a tad harsh, given that there was not even a hint of any wrong doing from any potential 'match-fixing'
I understand he is to appeal? Don't blame him and I hope he gets his punishment time reduced by some distance. This won't be about the £30k fine (probably less than a week's wages to him), it will be about the effective ending of his career
Re: Breaking News: ' Joey barton '
Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:28 pm
Likewise Chris - Not a fan of Barton but this has gone way over the top.
Over 1,000 bets some on games which he was not part of - Has been made to show " OTHERS " - What the FA will do.
Over 1,000 bets some on games which he was not part of - Has been made to show " OTHERS " - What the FA will do.