Swansea employee banned from football for betting

Swansea employee banned from football for betting

He Gambled £92,000

Andy Gourlay


BBC News


31 May 2024


A Swansea City employee has been suspended from football for a year after being caught making bets on his own team.
Huw Lake admitted placing almost 2,500 wagers on matches between 3 April 2018 and 24 September 2023.
The 61-year-old has been with Swansea City since 2004 and works as a player liaison officer.
He was also given a £1,500 fine in a ruling by an independent regulatory commission in March.

The FA appealed the body's original decision to ban him from all football and football-related activity for nine months, claiming that was unduly lenient.
In May an independent appeal board agreed, raising the ban to 12 months.
It heard Mr Lake made "no fewer than 2,476 football-related bets of which, most significantly and seriously, 130 were on SCFC to lose".
He gambled almost £92,000 during this time, losing just under 10% of his stakes.
Swansea City said the club "supported Huw throughout the FA’s proceedings and will continue to do so".

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To bet on his team losing is asking for trouble.

To bet on his team losing is asking for trouble.

Seems they are behind him though; another idictment of that club's low moral compass...

Rumour has it that he was trying to upgrade his caravan

Swansea employee banned from football for betting

He Gambled £92,000

Andy Gourlay


BBC News


31 May 2024


A Swansea City employee has been suspended from football for a year after being caught making bets on his own team.
Huw Lake admitted placing almost 2,500 wagers on matches between 3 April 2018 and 24 September 2023.
The 61-year-old has been with Swansea City since 2004 and works as a player liaison officer.
He was also given a £1,500 fine in a ruling by an independent regulatory commission in March.

The FA appealed the body's original decision to ban him from all football and football-related activity for nine months, claiming that was unduly lenient.
In May an independent appeal board agreed, raising the ban to 12 months.
It heard Mr Lake made "no fewer than 2,476 football-related bets of which, most significantly and seriously, 130 were on SCFC to lose".
He gambled almost £92,000 during this time, losing just under 10% of his stakes.
Swansea City said the club "supported Huw throughout the FA’s proceedings and will continue to do so".

Hopefully he lost a shed load when we stuffed them

Lakey was 1 of the ones giving a speech to their players when they beat us at home a few seasons back

I’m sure huw lake played for Swansea in the eighties when toshack was ther3 he came through there ranks if it’s the same one I actually played against him

So much for standing by their employee as they stated a few days before hand