I heard on White and Jordan this morning that isn’t even his real surname he just took it as a nickname 
Kind of like Hulk?
Or Gabriel Paulista. Definitely a Gabriel I’d prefer to forget.
And yet, still has more trophies than Harry Kane.
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Dude earns £100k in just 2 weeks after tax.
Why the fuck do you ruin your career over such silly bullshit.
Fucking idiot.
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https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1808777768651665436
Saw the rumours yesterday but didn’t think it could happen but it actually looks like it could be a thing. Can he duck the ban if he plays in Brazil? Is this a thing?
Doubt it.
If the FA ban him they’ll effectively block his registration, which ultimately rolls up to FIFA level as I understand it.
Maybe a roll of the dice from them that the ban wont be too severe or they’ll get enough from him in the short term before the ban lands for it to be worthwhile.
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That’s bollocks tbh. Presumably he’d bought a new one in the mean time and it’s their own fault if they didn’t download what they needed. Probably has an encrochat or similar one now.
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Indeed, what more would they need to check when they’d supposedly had it 2 months already? I mean that’s pure incompetence lol
If they didn’t find a smoking gun previously then that’s on them
Either way he’s an idiot for getting himself in this position
In the sense that he knew the rules, sure.
I’ve some sympathy for it generally speaking though and especially after watching Mersons short doc recently.
If a player bets on a game they’re involved in all bets are off in terms of punishment id say but just the act of betting itself…i think the punishments are very harsh there.
Do you not think players are privy to more insider or insider-ish info that they could use? I’m assuming that’s one of the reasons why players aren’t supposed to bet on games they aren’t involved with.
The whole betting industry is rigged as fuck so I don’t care about them getting ripped off.
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If the game was not impacted as a derivative, I would have been fine as well.
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Slippery slope with gambling. It’s an addiction. It’s only a matter of time before he would start betting on his own games.
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I think it is a bit of 2 things:
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it puts the game under ill-repute… you just don’t want your competitors gambling on their own sport… and there are myriad situations where it goes from “hmmm, that seems innocuous” to “that is grey as fuck” to “ummm, unambiguously bad”…
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its not easy to catch people, so when you do, you clobber them
Reality is, these rules are known, probably drilled in from an early age and in the league - there is no excuse honestly… there are an infinite number of things to gamble on besides your own sport, so i have zero sympathy tbh.
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