World Cup-Snubbed Ivan Toney Charged with 232 Betting Violations

English Premier League striker Ivan Toney has been supercharged past the English language Football Association with misconduct in telling to 232 alleged betting-rule violations. There’s no more suggestion the striker of all time play against his have squad or on a biz he was involved in.

The FA said Wed the infractions occurred 'tween Feb. 25, 2017, and Jan. 23, 2021. During that time, Toney played for Scunthorpe United, Wigan Athletic, Peterborough United, and Brentford.

Casino.org reported utmost week that Toney was below investigating for alleged historical gambling on matches, and that inquiries had been ongoing for several months.

Since 2014, FA rules have got prohibited players from play on association football games globally, as comfortably as on any affair related to to soccer, such as player transfers. Previously, players were simply prevented from betting on games inwards which they or their squad was flat involved.

Misses World Cup

News of the investigation couldn’t have come up at a worsened time for Toney, who had hoped to puddle the roster for England manager Gareth Southgate’s World Cup squad.

Southgate proclaimed the squad finally Thursday, simply troika years after the Toney story broke. The Brentford man was snubbed.

Many believed Toney had a strong grammatical case for inclusion. The 26-year-old has scored 10 EPL goals this time of year and has emerged o'er the past times II seasons as a powerful middle forward with a lethal finish.

Only England’s first-choice striker and captain, Harry Kane, and Manchester City’s Norseman goal monster, Erling Haaland, have scored more. And they incline to catch ameliorate table service than the Brentford man.

Toney is also an impeccable penalty taker. Of the 26 penalties he has attempted in his professional person career, he failed to nock just now in one case in 2018, spell playing for lower-league Portsmouth.

This gives him a smasher value of just over 96%, higher than anyone else who made the England squad. That includes Kane (86%), who is known to walk out a pretty sweetness dapple give up himself.

Penalty Misery

Toney could make been utile to England, a team up that has a suffering history of getting knocked out of major international tournaments on penalty shootouts.

In 2020, “the Three Lions” missed in the net of the UEFA European Championship to Italy inward a shootout. Had Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka interred their kicks, it would get been the national team’s first off major international statute title since the 1966 World Cup.

Last week, Southgate claimed to The Daily Mirror that Toney’s exclusion had zero to manage with the gaming investigation.

“I’ve non had that conversation because he wasn’t inward our squad,” Southgate said. “For us, Sep was a just opportunity to have got a look at Ivan on the preparation pitch, to study a fleck to a greater extent most him, for him to see to it how we work. We knew and had discussed with him it was a long pellet to live involved at this clip inward a World Cup.”

Many English people soccer fans finger differently.

Toney has until Nov 24 to respond to the FA misconduct charges. He faces a lengthy ban if they are proven.