Pie eating goalkeeper

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I find this quite bizarre, just because a bookie takes a bet (that the goalie had nothing to do with) the keeper is charged with improper conduct?!?! Surely NOT being able to eat a pie would have infringed his human rights? :rofl:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40607213
 
The bookie had made a book on this event during the week of the match, therefore when this fella eat the pie it has left the FA no choice. As this was a bizarre event to have a market on and then the main man obliges it does leave the door open for accusations. Much the same if a book was formed on Mcilroy taking 13 on the 1st next week and he obliges questions would be asked
 
anotherdouble said:
The bookie had made a book on this event during the week of the match, therefore when this fella eat the pie it has left the FA no choice. As this was a bizarre event to have a market on and then the main man obliges it does leave the door open for accusations. Much the same if a book was formed on Mcilroy taking 13 on the 1st next week and he obliges questions would be asked
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Not the same at all.
Mcilroy doing that would be like deliberately scoring an own goal.
If the bookies are daft enough to put up such a silly bet they deserve to be stung.
 
The guy was an eejit, and was forced to resign from the job he loved. Is that not punishment enough for an act of stupidity that even the bookie is not complaining anout?
 
Bookie should have had £5 max bet on the market


Absolute stupid putting on a bet like this, so this guy can't eat a pie then?
 
murphthemog said:
The guy was an eejit, and was forced to resign from the job he loved. Is that not punishment enough for an act of stupidity that even the bookie is not complaining anout?
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The story I was told was that it was all a publicity stunt by the bookie which is why they are not complaining.

They run a book on the big guy eating a pie (not your normal betting market)

The big guy, after all other subs are used so cannot play in the game, is handed a pie (he didn't leave the bench so didn't buy it)

The bookie gets loads of free advertising and pictures in the media

The guy get publicity but probably doesn't realise that it going to cause such an uproar.

The bookies would have only had a small limit on the bet as its a novelty bet so losses are likely to mitigated.
 
To be honest I don't know why bookies are allowed to make these stupid betting markets, Bet on the result or the goal scorer, fair enough but all the periphery bets seem ridiculous to me.
 
No one comes out of this with much dignity really. Daft thing for the keeper to do, daft bet to offer and daft of football to be seemingly so reliant on betting firms adverts and sponsorship of football teams shirts. Apparently half of the premier league teams last year had an on line casino or betting firm on their shirts, You dance with the devil....
 
It was the Amber Scum he played for. They should be kicked out of the Conference, banned from football from five years, their ground demolished and sold for housing development. Then burn all their merchandise and round up any of their fans and deport them.

Not that I've got any kind of bias against them .... heaven forbid.
 
Pathetic Shark said:
It was the Amber Scum he played for. They should be kicked out of the Conference, banned from football from five years, their ground demolished and sold for housing development. Then burn all their merchandise and round up any of their fans and deport them.

Not that I've got any kind of bias against them .... heaven forbid.
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Deport them to where, they live here…… oh, sorry, wrong thread…… :whistle:
 
I have a feeling some were his mates. At the end of the day this was a bit of fun, the guy was a character at his club. The bookie got a load of publicity, the whole point of offering such an obviously stupid bet, that far out weighed the payouts. The FA should have given a verbal warning to both the player and highlight the stupidity of offering such bets. What has happened since is totally out of proportion.
 
He knew it was live on TV, he knew it's against the rules, his mates colluded with him to win a few pounds, he's totally responsible.

I get it might be a laugh, but he knew what he was doing, no harm done eh, what if Pickford agrees with a few mates to guarantee a corner to the opposition in the first 10mins of a match? No harm done, just a few mates making a few quid.

You can't do it under the FA Rules and his stupidity was there for the world to see.
 
I get your point Paul, le Tissier actually did that but one of his team mates kept the ball in so messed it up. I tend to see this as more innocent, perhaps wrongly, as it did not happen on the pitch, it was not football related, it didn't impact on the result. He ate a pie / pastie.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I get your point Paul, le Tissier actually did that but one of his team mates kept the ball in so messed it up. I tend to see this as more innocent, perhaps wrongly, as it did not happen on the pitch, it was not football related, it didn't impact on the result. He ate a pie / pastie.
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On the face of it it's harmless fun, except he knew his mates would benefit from it and he knew the FA rules about gambling.
 
pauldj42 said:
He knew it was live on TV, he knew it's against the rules, his mates colluded with him to win a few pounds, he's totally responsible.

I get it might be a laugh, but he knew what he was doing, no harm done eh, what if Pickford agrees with a few mates to guarantee a corner to the opposition in the first 10mins of a match? No harm done, just a few mates making a few quid.

You can't do it under the FA Rules and his stupidity was there for the world to see.
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Lord Tyrion said:
I get your point Paul, le Tissier actually did that but one of his team mates kept the ball in so messed it up. I tend to see this as more innocent, perhaps wrongly, as it did not happen on the pitch, it was not football related, it didn't impact on the result. He ate a pie / pastie.
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I'm with Lord Tyrion on this one. Personally think that the FA would be better employed blocking bookmakers from making such stupid bets. Yes, I know they probably don't have the power to do that and it's never going to happen, but if they are stupid enough to offer the bet and they get taken then more fool them.
 
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