Hypocritical anti-Semites.

[Supersub6]

Ivan Toney wears a Brentford shirt with Hollywood Bets emblazoned across his chest, yet the hypocrites in the FA/EPL alliance ban him for eight months for betting.

Alan Pace said he would not endorse betting until the W88 chequebook comes out.

The hypocrisy is nauseating.

Interesting BT, it didn't stop you going to watch our matches in the Sky Bet Championship last season and you were only too happy that we won it. Is that not hypocrisy in your book?

[Balanbam00]

BT: ''I once "knew" a lass from up Trawden way, she had that 69er malarkey well sorted!''

Ah! that explains it ,since we Rishton lads had the B'burn Mecca, well conquered, You 'had ' to find other places far away!

[Balanbam00]

.....and sometimes, when we 'coasted' the Burnley 'Mecca too!''

[Supersub6]

BT: ''I once "knew" a lass from up Trawden way, she had that 69er malarkey well sorted!''

Ah! that explains it ,since we Rishton lads had the B'burn Mecca, well conquered, You 'had ' to find other places far away!

.....and sometimes, when we 'coasted' the Burnley 'Mecca too!''

Joined by some of the lads from Ossie and Accy!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Interesting BT, it didn't stop you going to watch our matches in the Sky Bet Championship last season and you were only too happy that we won it. Is that not hypocrisy in your book?

We were sponsored by a footy shirt company last season Supersub6 but that's of no consequence to the ALK stance that they were disgruntled with the betting sponsorship when they took over.

Big money talks, the hypocrisy belongs to the owners of Burnley Football Club, not me.

[Swissclaret]

Ivan Toney wears a Brentford shirt with Hollywood Bets emblazoned across his chest, yet the hypocrites in the FA/EPL alliance ban him for eight months for betting.

Alan Pace said he would not endorse betting until the W88 chequebook comes out.

The hypocrisy is nauseating.

I think you are misrepresenting the case with Ivan Toney.

It is part of the rules that a professional footballer cannot bet on football matches. As far as I am aware Toney could bet on the horses, cricket, darts you name it.

The FA/PL is enforcing that rule - not simply that he placed bets. It was the same with our Joey and others. Peter Swan was the first, I recall.

I do not think it is hypocrisy on the part of the FA/PL in enforcing a rule that all professionals sign up to. They know the rules.

Whether or not football should be associated with gambling is another matter - but, then, why single out football? Ban gambling being associated with horse racing? I believe that, in their time, jockeys have been found to be betting on races and have been banned.

[Supersub6]

We were sponsored by a footy shirt company last season Supersub6 but that's of no consequence to the ALK stance that they were disgruntled with the betting sponsorship when they took over.

Big money talks, the hypocrisy belongs to the owners of Burnley Football Club, not me.

I thought that you had stated that you were a churchgoing man in previous posts and ...............

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I thought that you had stated that you were a churchgoing man in previous posts and ...............

Our local C of E vicar is often seen reading the Racing Post but he does not own Burnley Football Club nor does he claim that shirt sponsorship by betting companies is immoral.

[outwoodclaret]

On this issue (about the dangers of gambling addictions) and the failure to control advertising gambling on football shirts and elsewhere I find myself in agreement with you BT. Why you needed to try and work in the number 88 and anti-semitism into the same thread I just don’t know. 88 is considered a very lucky number in some cultures without any sinister meaning. It’s lucky in China apparently and they are friends of the Russians who want a buffer zone against NATO so maybe we should send them some old “buffers”.

[army88]

I remember Alan Pace saying betting and football are incongruent.

Then someone pulls out their chequebook.

Sponsorship deals I would imagine aren’t ten a penny and money ( the root of all evil ) is required by the wagon load to maintain our presence in the Premiership and make yours and my experience better.

I’d agree to a point if we had several suitors ( non gambling ) offering the same financial package in sponsorship on shirts.

But I’m fairly sure we chose the most lucrative to Burnley FC , morals out the window - just logic