It has been determined that Brentford striker Ivan Toney has a gambling problem.

Following the footballer's conviction for breaking betting regulations, this news broke. 

In the beginning, Toney was going to get a 15-month penalty from the FA for trying to hide his betting habits. After a psychiatry specialist testified before the FA's regulatory commission, demonstrating Toney's gambling addiction, the sentence was lowered to eight months.

Recent FA betting regulation violations resulted in the striker's 232nd conviction. 

Toney has confessed to the FA that he lied to them multiple times by removing important texts and providing fake evidence. 

Gareth Southgate, manager of the England national team, expressed his disapproval of Toney's sentence earlier this week, calling it: "Not how the best rehabilitation programmes work."

Toney has come clean about his decision to no longer gamble on football, though he continues to wager on other sports. 

The bets that Toney made have been further detailed. It was discovered that over the course of seven matches, Toney had wagered thirteen times on his own team's defeat. It should be mentioned, though, that Toney sat out all of these matches.

In addition to betting on football games, Toney has been discovered to have wagered a lot on his own club to win.

His participation in the matchday team would not have been widely known at the time he gambled on himself to score in games.

Reportedly, Toney is hell-bent on beating his addiction before being cleared to play football again in January 2024.