The whole Tonali thing rubbed me up the wrong way because of how Newcastle handled it, sure they have to support their player etc but these are grown adults, very wealthy adults at that and they’re not stupid.
They’re very well aware of the rules and know gambling within the sport is illegal, so I find it hard to sympathise with players like Tonali and his cabal. You’ve done an illegal thing and there are consequences for it… that’s it really.
What made me laugh was Newcastle/the player angling it as an addiction problem - which it may be in some cases like Ivan Toney’s, but the majority of players get by fine without gambling as far as we know. There are rules for a reason, you already live privileges lives, why put your career or the games integrity at risk?
Addiction or not, you’re betting within something that you either have insider info (he may know something about a team / player we don’t) or you directly control (when he plays).
As someone paid millions & know how privileged you are why not get help. Why not ask? Why not go straight to a lawyer the first time? It’s impossible to think you wouldn’t be caught so why not go & get help?
These people have every thing in their life taken care of, literally have special people from the club to go set up their house bills or exclusive helpers that do their shopping. HOW would they not have someone that can help if they were actually addicted to gambling?
Boggles my mind that they do it again and again, then get caught then say ‘oh I’m addicted’ like they just realised.
sounds like such a boring existence if you ask me. I’d probably gamble too.