Oh dear, Arsenal have confirmed they are investigating whether academy coach Mark Arber may have

[Nicosia Gooner]

broken FA rules by betting on the signing of Mesut Ozil.

What a ****!

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Pat Vegas]

is to award the signed player to the club who finished one place below the offending team the previous season.

:-(

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Pat Vegas]

[Luis Anaconda]

to an entirely different, much more serious case

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2413585/Ar senal-probe-Academy-coach-Mark-Arber-bet-arrival-Mesut-Ozil. html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2413585/Arsenal-probe-Academy-coach-Mark-Arber-bet-arrival-Mesut-Ozil.html)

For those who don't want to click, the important paragraph below:

Heys admitted to 735 breaches of the FA's betting rules at a hearing in August and received a 21-month ban, as well as a £1,000 fine, though he intends to appeal the punishment.
The former Accrington managing director admitted he had made more than 200 bets on matches involving the club and had bet on them to lose on 37 occasions.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Are these ludicrous rules such that his Arsenal based saturday bets were all also illegal?

[Luis Anaconda]

I have no idea

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[The Tony]

Sounds like a disgruntled bookmaker trying to get out of not paying out on bet so decided to try and get him sacked instead.

[Nicosia Gooner]

job

[Luis Anaconda]

If bookmakers are stupid enough to offer them, they have to live with the consequences

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

f**k only knows how they caught him all the same.

[The Tony]

Since when do bookmakers tell the FA what to do so they can avoid paying out on bets?

Your anger shouldn't be at the coach but the bookmaker trying to get one of our coaches in trouble.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

betting on matches. I can't see any rule in their list that he has broken?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

http://eircomsports.eircom.net/News/news/soccer/other/arsena l-probe-betting-tweet.aspx (http://eircomsports.eircom.net/News/news/soccer/other/arsenal-probe-betting-tweet.aspx)


All very silly really.

[Luis Anaconda]

not like insider trading really

[Pat Vegas]

[Mc Gooner]

[eastgermanautos]

[Stroller]

[PSRB]

when BiL stayed at Everton

[Nicosia Gooner]