The details of the Ivan Toney case have been made public, and they will only prompt further questions about the appropriateness of gambling ads in football. twoht
is one of sadness. Addiction is difficult to explain to anyone who’s never suffered from it. It’s not rational, as non-addicts would understand it. It can – some might say, almost certainly will – make you a worse person. It makes you act in ways that are self-defeating and outwardly selfish. And it can be extremely difficult to rein in once it starts to spiral out of control.
Football’s formal tolerance of betting by those who work in it is formally zero, but the fact that there are players and even managers struggling with addiction has been an open secret for years. But if there is a spectrum of ways in which the game’s rules over it could be broken, Toney’s erred towards the more egregious end. Betting on his team – even if he only did so when he wasn’t available for selection – and his former clubs to lose is one of the more severe offences.
But perhaps the time for forensically analysing every detail of this case is coming to an end. Maybe we should draw the lens back slightly. Ivan Toney will have known that his behaviour was against the rules. It’s difficult to imagine what the push and pull going on within the player himself might have been, between having won the lottery of life in being blessed with his ability at a time when those with it are lavishly rewarded, and having addiction threaten to sweep all of that away.
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