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Ian Black's Sentence


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I think he's been very lucky.

10 game ban 7 of which are suspended plus £7500 fine after he admitted

betting against his own team.

I'd have banned him for life for that offence.

 

 

Given the fact he plays for the rangers he'll probably still be able to play while he's banned for the three games.

 

Joke sentence.

 

He should be banned for life. Likewise any player betting against his own team. Even our ones.

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The thing is its not really the sentence that is the joke.

 

Its Scottish football per se.

 

Suddenly expecting newly enlightened authorities to do things properly and fairly, given their behaviour over the sevco debacle, is absurd.

 

It was never going to happen.

 

This is in line with the decisions made during that spell and is no surprise at all.

 

The only surprise is that folk are still surprised by these things.

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Looking at the reports about the three games he bet "against" his team I can see why the panel may have come to their decision that a ten game ban was appropriate.

The value of the stakes for his bets has been reported to have been under £50 and the bets were apparently on fixed odd coupons and accumulators.

In the two games he bet that Hearts would lose, a game against Motherwell and one of the Spurs games, he was not playing in either game and for the Spurs game Hearts had already been pumped 5-0 at home in the 1st leg. (Ironically they drew 0-0 in London so he would have lost that bet)

And in the Rangers game he bet on them to draw with East Stirling and he scored to make it 3-2 to the Huns.

 

I'm more surprised at the decision to suspend the 7 games, that's the part that I think is fishy, leaving him serving just a three game ban is overly lenient I think. When you consider what offences have carried actual three game bans.

 

Be interested to see what action The Rangers take, perfect opportunity to sack him for gross misconduct and save £7,500 per week which they must need to do.

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The thing is its not really the sentence that is the joke.

 

Its Scottish football per se.

 

Suddenly expecting newly enlightened authorities to do things properly and fairly, given their behaviour over the sevco debacle, is absurd.

 

It was never going to happen.

 

This is in line with the decisions made during that spell and is no surprise at all.

 

The only surprise is that folk are still surprised by these things.

That is true!

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I've just got hold of McCoists 10 page list of other football players that he knows have been betting on matches.

 

Here is the first page:-

 

 

Trialist A

Trialist B

Trialist C

Trialist D

Trialist E

Trialist F

Trialist G

Trialist H

Trialist I

Trialist J

Trialist K

Trialist L

Why are you not naming those on the other pages ?

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