Nottingham Forest’s Harry Toffolo charged with 375 breaches of betting rules

The Nottingham Forest defender has a week to respond to the charges.

UK.- The English Football Association has charged Nottingham Forest defender Harry Toffolo with 375 alleged breaches of betting rules. He is alleged to have committed the breaches between January 22, 2014 and March 18, 2017.

Football Association rules prohibit players from betting or passing on information that could be used for betting. Now 27, Toffolo joined Nottingham Forest a year ago and made 19 Premier League appearances in the last season. During the period of the alleged infractions, he played for Norwich, Swindon, Rotherham, Peterborough and Scunthorpe.

Toffolo has a week to respond to the charges, which come after Brentford striker Ivan Toney was banned for eight months for 232 breaches of FA betting rules. Toney, who played for England on one occasion, was initially charged with 262 breaches of FA Rule E8. These were alleged to have taken place between February 25, 2017 and January 23, 2021.

The FA withdrew 30 of the charges, and Toney admitted the 232 that remained. He has since been diagnosed with a gambling addition. He cannot play professional football until January 2024.

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Nottingham Forest received almost £500,000 from FIFA for having players at last year’s World Cup.

The Reds had a number of representatives at the tournament in Qatar. They received a cash sum of £8,429 ($10,950) per player, per day during the competition as part of FIFA’s Club Benefits Programme.

FIFA has now published its Club Benefits Programme report, outlining how much clubs pocketed courtesy of the programme. Via the Daily Mail, it shows Forest benefitted to the tune of £0.45 million.

The Reds’ amount is some way behind the £3.54m Manchester City pocketed for having 16 players at the World Cup. Pep Guardiola’s side top the list for the amount received among Premier League teams.

In total, FIFA paid out £160.90m ($209m) to 440 clubs around the world. English clubs banked £29.03m ($37.70m) – the most from within Europe.

Compensation was also paid to all clubs for which a player had played in the two years prior to the competition. The total was worked out by the number of days each player spent at the tournament, starting from when they were released for international duty up until their final match.

Forest had 10 players at the World Cup. Brennan Johnson, Neco Williams and Wayne Hennessey represented Wales, Remo Freuler was there with Switzerland, Cheikhou Kouyate was picked for Senegal, Ethan Horvath was in the USA squad, Brandon Aguilera was in Qatar with Costa Rica, Mohamed Drager represented Tunisia, Richie Laryea went with Canada and Hwang Ui-jo travelled with South Korea.