They need to ban ALL gambling adverts before, after and during games. Sick of seeing it.

How can a headline story on perils of gambling have only adverts for betting 🤷🏼‍♂️

I love the fact if I wasn't running a plugin, every time i watched a vid on YT about Tonali I'd get blasted with bloody gambling ads.

The bottom line here is the FA upheld Tonali's ban, if he was only banned from Italian football and Europe that would be one thing but the FA upheld his gambling ban in English competition so charging him again for the same offences committed before the ban is unfair.

Martin should be the Arch Bishop of the PFA

Jims attitude on this really shocks me. If you changed gambling for alcohol he would be significantly more understanding. Poor from him really.

Martin's the only one of the three talking sense here. How's Tonali a recidivist? These bets were before his original ban. It's part of what he was already banned for. The only difference is the final 50 bets happened in England instead of Italy.

Toney got 8 months for 232 offences, by that token Tonali should get 7 weeks for 50 offences.

There will be other footballers out there looking over their shoulder that haven't been caught yet.

50 addional offences in 2 months? That is an addiction problem!!!

A bit rich from Talksport....they encourage and promote gambling.....they can offer gambling helplines and help websites but its extremely hypocritical of them. They tempt people into gambling and they point the finger of blame and condemnation at men who fall for their adverts and talk of betting.

Getting addicted to gambling is so dangerous.

Cantona kicked a fan , regardless of the circumstance , but none the less was banned 6 month. Terry racism accusations 6 game ban . Tonali could potentially be out a year and a half. Doesn’t add up really

Looking at the FA only - if they are to be considered separate incidents from the Italian penalties - then Toney was given 8 months for over 200 offences then by that math Tonali should get 2 months for his 50 beaches. Then the FA shouldn't wait for the Italian ban to be over before applying their own sanction so Tonali's additional ban from the FA should start immediately and run concurrently with the Italian ban.

Harry Tofollo bet against his own team and claimed mental health issues, and managed to get a reduced ban. Tonali has already been given a 10 month ban and is receiving help. What is the purpose of giving out bans? He's already getting help. As far as I am aware, he hasn't been match fixing. Jim and Simon are going on like he murdered someone. Players get less for racism.

Addicted or not, betting on yourself or the team you play for to lose is so much worse than general betting.

Firstly, as far as we're aware, for all these newly charged offences happened while he was in the UK, he has NOT bet on any games since he was caught and charged in October... meaning any punishment other than a fine should run concurrently with the ban that's already running. Secondly, as we once had with brewing companies and alcoholic beverages, the game is saturated with big money sponsorship deals, on shirts, billboards, and the endless advertisements during every single match in the UK. He deserved to be punished, as did Toney, but we don't even seem to be acknowledging the hipocrasy in all of this. If gambling is so abhorrent, then why aren't we pushing tooth and nail to eradicate it and the companies involved from the sport in general?

Why can't they find away to punish Tonali without punishing Newcastle United? He should be punished in his pocket but left to play for the team. Now the team is paying for the mistake of a player.

Jim doesn’t play with a full deck of cards

Keown always defends the player, ALWAYS as he doesn't see anything from the clubs or the FANS point over view ... EVER!

Where is the investigation into Milan?..... What did they know?

Gambling is an addiction, l get that. There are literally dozens of sports to bet on. As a footballer, why risk your career and livelyhood betting on football when you know it's illegal ?

Eddie - i fail to see how Tonali has been 'honest'

Just taking a moment to appreciate how hard Milan mugged off Newcastle: effectively took their CL qualification money for Tonali then binned them out of the tournament 😂😂😂

What is the point for banning him for even longer? 10 months is more than enough it doesn't achieve anything

Surely committing the offence was the breach of contract whether or not it was explicit t in the contract.

Simon using the expression "dollars to doughnuts" is pretty ironic considering that's a gambling expression lol

It's funny that Simon says that he has no skin in the game on this issue whilst his podcast is sponsored by Betfred

No way the club should still be paying him. That should be part of the consequence. As it is, he's getting financial reward for doing nothing.

Footballers are allowed to bet but not on football, so the addiction argument is somewhat flawed. Players must be punished for gambling on football and for every infringement, or we could end up with a systemic issue where match fixing is a reality in the EPL. Look at Serie A only a few years ago.

The Hyprocrisy in football is shocking. Allow betting companies to advertise non stop, have programs sponsored by betting companies and then complain when people bet.

Tonali has been silent since his charge/ban while Toney has claimed that he was hard done by and that’s the difference. We should support those with addiction issues but there should always be consequences for their actions, like you would with any other employer outside of high profile sports clubs. Personally I don’t see the worth in banning him further unless he carried on gambling after he was accused/charged.

Fine him 8 weeks wages he won't do it again

'He has suffered enough ' 😂😂😂😂

Tonali told Newcastle he wouldn’t take wages during his ban if they took him up on it iv no idea

Martin writing his weekly shopping list by the looks of it

and yet they allow betting companies to sponsor and be involved at almost every level

The offenses were before the ban and he was open in the investigation. The FA has known about this... at most give him a ban that serves out concurrently with his current ban.

I may be very biased but IF he has cut out the gambling and has obviously had a significant punishment, I don't quite see the point of punishing him further if the problem has effectively already been resolved and these charges are from BEFORE the initial judgement. That is the point here right? To excise/ extirpate the actual problem here- pure punishment has no point to it. That said, I am annoyed that he's come to the club for big money and stupidly broke the rules as a Newcastle player. Tonali's suspension was also the catalyst that destroyed our season- had he been available the injuries wouldn't have hit nearly as hard.

I'd like to know his strike rate prior to any judgment.

I wanted to know when he was told he was he was under investigation by the Italian FA, it was the 12th October 2023 and had to leave the Italy Squad training camp. The last betting breach reported by the England FA was October 12th 2023 according to everything I can find online. There’s a few individuals declaring he was betting after the Italy betting Investigation was declared. I want to know whether they’ve found different or they’ve not checked the facts.

I see no issue betting on your own team to win but there is an issue to bet on yourself to score first

Part of me feels that there should be some form of punishment but at the same point he clearly has an addiction problem which needs to be dealt with.

I wonder what are they checking for all the time on their desk??

Would love to hear Simon Jordan ‘discuss’ this with Paul Merson. Jordan wouldn’t know what hit him. Addiction to gambling is as bad as addiction to alcohol, drugs or anything else.

Whilst I think breaking rules requires punishment, it's important to consider the effect of a playing ban. I'd argue that an extension of the current ban would damage Newcastle disproportionately compared to Tonali. I think the FA would be better served by forcing Tonali to do community work, both in and out of football, to raise awareness of gambling and the dangers involved. This takes up Tonali's personal time (which may still affect his performance for Newcastle) but saves Newcastle from having 50 million pounds worth of player on their balance sheet that can't contribute. My understanding is that he's already required to have done such work as part of his current punishment, so it seems a more reasonable avenue to pursue. That being said, if the intention is to improve how clubs monitor their players relating to gambling or behaviour more widely, then extending the ban would potentially be the better punishment as an incentive for Newcastle and other clubs to ensure their players don't fall foul of the same issues.

Tonali has clearly put himself in an invidious position and dollars for donuts suggests he will get a longer ban

I support Newcastle and he's been flagrantly breaking the rules, him and Milan knew what he had coming and he continued his behaviour.

These 50 charges where before he got banned not after? Surley this 50 is within his first punishment. Wild wanting to ban him more

The Tonali deal will be ashworths legacy at Newcastle.

How does it make sense that the 2nd time he commits the offence he gets a suspended smaller sentence? If its a suspended sentence it should be double what the original sentence was. Still the sentence shouldn't be suspended. Had this happened while he was suspended or before he got suspended?

Imagine watching a game in the future with tonali playing and thinking this is probably a legitimate game.

These 'new offences' are in continuation from his original offences the only difference is he moved country. Its not as if he got charged and then decided to gamble again after that. He has already missed the whole season so what good would it be to extend it beyond this even further? It would be different if he had started gambling again after being charged

Sentences often run concurrently in criminal law. The FA have to go through due process as these 50 offences occurred under their jurisdiction. Any punish should run concurrently. Tonali did notify the FA of these offences.

Unfortunately it's new offences, that he cooperated should add leniency but does require an additional consequence. If someone was found to have additional speeding offences after having their license suspended, there would be additional consequences for actions not yet punished. He may be suffering but he has done this to himself. There are many people suffering the consequences of other people's actions that don't get the support Tonali is getting.

Big up Dan Ashworth 😂😂😂😂

Shock horror ..man utd fan against Tonali being allowed to play!! 🙄

Sounds like addiction and I don't think impartiality comes into it

A financial punishment ie 1 year salary, would suffice in the Tonali situation

What happened to Grobelar !?

as a manchester united supporter and from solely a football pov, I am grateful his absence for the toon army has hampered them and thus benefited us. but from a human pov it is a desperately sad story, gambling is one of if not the most destructive addictions in society and I genuinely hope he overcomes these demons

Tonali never wanted to leave Milan. Milan sold him because of the gambling issues. Newcastle bought a car with a flat tyre.

There must have been medical and phsycological rehab sessions to be had while serving his ban

Heated

A longer ban means he has more time to get more help.

money laundering at best football money equals mafia money 💰.

When will the day come that Martin agrees on anything

It is always took into consideration tho he shouldn’t be extended

When Sandro came to Newcastle his addition would not of stopped so he was still gambling when he was at Newcastle,but then when he got found out in Italy he then came out and admitted to the fa that he had gambled while he was at our club and told the fa what he had gambled on,so I would like to think that he has done his time and any ban from the fa should run concurrent along side his ban fromi Italy,but they could have further6 months suspended because if he is found once to be gambling on anything that 6 months would come into play

Why don't they fine players for indescretions like they do in the NRL?.. Nothing hurts players more than paying fines from their own pockets

He’s received a ban & is getting the help he needs & focusing on a comeback & taking positive steps , these bets took place before he come to Newcastle , punishing him & Newcastle further only sets him back .

It makes little logical sense for it to be “extended” (as in a further ban tagged on the end of his existing one) it should only really be extended by a new concurrent ban slightly overlapping his current ban Tonali went to the English FA when the Italy proceedings were starting and disclosed this information, the FA have only just reached their verdict It would make very little sense for the FA not to hand out immediate punishment and instead delay it and tag it on the end of a ban that was from another organisation and an investigation the FA were not part of. There’s not justifiable motivation to reach a verdict and then wait 5 months to give out the punishment, the punishment if there is one should run alongside the one from the Italian investigation, the only real way and “extended” ban makes sense is if he has 5 months left on the existing ban and the FA want to hand him an immediate 6 or 7 month ban for the 50 breaches here, in which case it would be an additional month or two

Addiction is tough...What I don't get is why bet on football? Sooooo many other sports he could have bet on and never get banned.

What are the odds?

what did fa do too merson and other players gillespie and many more nothing done to them

explain then why do mps still get paid when found guilty of wrong doing like false claims

AC Milan would been rueing selling him to a club like Newcastle. This is the current state of high end Italian clubs. Selling top players to Premier League outlets. In retrospective Milan must be so relived. They bagged £52,000,000 for the sale & don’t have to deal with an ultra toxic issue.

As someone who has a brother who has a gambling addiction for these to say that the guy knew the rules and should have not bet is ridiculous. Addiction is an illness and needs to be accepted as that in sport like in any other walk of life, I guarantee the player will be hurting and will be humiliated for himself and family. Sadly in the future he will have set backs just like alcoholism and drug addiction, the man needs help not punishment after punishment, that doesn’t work.

But if i may ask after being banned meaning doing nothing with competitions for a specified period of time, they're supposed to monitor him from the time of his resumption,hope am not wrong here

10 month ban is already ridiculous, other players have had less bans for actual crimes. Its over move on nobody wins from adding another few month on when its already been 10 months.

" A heinous crime " it's good to hear Simon Jordan starting to chill a little .

Trying to say Ashworth is to blame or he should have asked around is grasping at straws for someone to blame.

Our society is very incoherent, we talk about mental health and addiction out of one side of our mouths whilst we're bombarded, literally bombarded, with gambling adverts 24/7. Adverts on the billboards, radio, in stadiums, in programmes, on shirts, it's non-stop.

The FA are a joke. Gambling companies are everywhere in football and now they want to clamp down on betting. Where’s man city with their 115 charges

People really do underestimate gambling addiction - he needs help more than anything, bans won’t stop him. He’s human at the end of the day and gambling addiction can be just as crippling as alcohol and drug addiction - really hope he gets healthy and back on the pitch soon

I've never bet on anything so this is a new area for me. Is having so much money a part of it? I feel for anyone who has an addiction. We are all human.

I don’t feel that I know all the facts yet. On one hand Newcastle said he fully cooperated with the Italian investigation so must have disclosed betting in the Premiership. This wasn’t a new period of abuse after previous punishment was initiated so why would the FA get involved now instead of earlier? If he didn’t admit the Premiership bets then he could be punished again but it’s taken a ridiculous amount of time to get here.

what about the Huddersfield lad 484 bets 4 month ban 3200 fine why the difference

52 Million Spent On Him WOW

The problem with this, it’s not all that black and white (pun not intended), you can have a game riddled with gambling that’s on almost every advert, on shirts, in stadiums, in build up adverts on the telly etc etc and then punish anyone from within who has an addiction? The issue is that the two are undeniably related. How much longer can you go on punishing individuals when the soul of football itself is infected with betting to its very core? And I’m not saying Tonali didnt/doesn’t deserve a punishment, but at some point there has to be a cut off. The lads an addict, he needs and is getting the necessary support. Isn’t a year long ban not enough?

Toneys had zonali to be back by april at 10/1

WOW Simon and Jim betting on if NUFC are paying him.....Waging is another word for betting.

Jim acting like he does not understand addiction. "He should have thought of that!" Funny huh?

One thing: PIF definitely has more legal power than the FA. Does the FA want this fight? I don't want to see the PIF destroy the FA. Or do I?

It's a 10 month football ban, not 6 as as Simon has suggested as there is the European championships that he will miss. I think a 10 month ban in a career as short as a footballer is appropriate. If he does it again throw the book at him.

agree with martin but if shown tonali betted on toon games this season he was involved in is definitely a different more serious matter

Any new penalty should now be a fine only on the player

So Tonali gets a longer ban than karate kicking a fan in the stands??

Why?why?I don't understand, he is getting loads of money on week,why bedding?

Same opinion as Toney. Permanently ban them from the sport. I have to same opinion of anyone caught gambling IMO especially when its to do with actions within the players control