Non-League Paper

BETTING BAN IS WAKE-UP CALL!

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
8 March 2020

By David Richardson
GREAT Wakering Rovers manager Steve Butterworth has been suspended from all football and football-related activity for four months after breaching FA betting rules.
Butterworth has become the latest Non-League participant to be caught out after placing 1,541 bets on football matches between August 3, 2014 to May 29, 2019.
The FA’s stance on betting is: “This simple and straightforward message when it comes to football is that ‘all bets are off’. This extends to bets on any match or competition, events within a match, manager markets or players tra...

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