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JerusalemMan said:
I'm interested to observe how the press coverage and social media reaction to this unfolds compared with Ivan Toney's offences.
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They're not english players so it will be covered less i am guessing in the uk. But far more in italy. Talksport just spent the last half hour talking about it and gambling addiction.
 
Lilbaz said:
They're not english players so it will be covered less i am guessing in the uk. But far more in italy. Talksport just spent the last half hour talking about it and gambling addiction.
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I doubt it will be addiction in these cases. More likely organised crime.
 
Baleforce said:
The right thing?
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What is the right thing? What has howe done that is not the right thing? If you were in his position what would you do?

Personally. I might have said "it's under investigation and i don't want to say anything that might interfere with that".
 
Lilbaz said:
What is the right thing? What has howe done that is not the right thing? If you were in his position what would you do?

Personally. I might have said "it's under investigation and i don't want to say anything that might interfere with that".
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Doing exactly as you suggest, stay out of the public discourse on the issue.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Because its about 40 players. That's not addiction when 7% of the players in the league are implicated.
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Simon Jordan touched on that. Said you obviously have to be very sensitive when discussing the topic of addiction but it's no coincidence that some of these players that have been caught and claimed addiction get offered support and a reduced ban. The punishment for that Italian player could have been 2 to 4 years etc but he had it reduced due to cooperating and claiming addiction.

(Sounds insensitive when written down but you get the point he was making)
 
dingdongo said:
Simon Jordan touched on that. Said you obviously have to be very sensitive when discussing the topic of addiction but it's no coincidence that some of these players that have been caught and claimed addiction get offered support and a reduced ban. The punishment for that Italian player could have been 2 to 4 years etc but he had it reduced due to cooperating and claiming addiction.

(Sounds insensitive when written down but you get the point he was making)
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I would say it’s human nature to want to reduce your sentence by any means possible and that there may be cases where players are claiming addiction to get that reduction.
 
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