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They are the people you hurt much more than yourself, the people you put through the emotional rollercoaster with all his betting. It is horrendous.” Kevin is so passionate about it, he spends his spare time helping others with gambling addictions and visiting football clubs to talk about the dangers that young players face. His troubles only came to a head after he had stopped playing football when an ex told him exactly what he had become.

They are betting on bookings, on throw-ins, on anything. If it had been available in my day, I would have been in jail, I have no doubt about that. Football, to me, has become an extension of the gambling industry. You only have to look at the sponsors on TV and in stadiums. I know of three SPL players who lost a quarter of a million in one weekend in a syndicate recently. People will look at Barton and think this is a guy with loads of money but nobody has a clue how much money he has. I can only hope it was a one-off. I believe it is, because these are international players. I can't accept that this is because we missed Henrik Larsson. If that is the case, this would be a one-man team and I don't think I or any of the players in the dressing-room would accept that."

Betting companies do a good service to the Scottish game with their financial input, but to ask players not to bet but be standing in a picture beside Ladbrokes and William Hill, that's where the conflict becomes difficult with regards to the players. In this action the pursuers seek to enforce certain rights which they allege arise under a Management Agreement entered into between them and the defender on 31 July 2000. In terms of the Management Agreement the defender appointed the pursuers to act on his behalf "in relation to the negotiation and/or management of any business relating in any way whatsoever" to his career and related activities as a professional football player, including:- Acts which are preparatory to the sale of a business, such as the conclusion of a contract for the publication of an advertisement in a periodical, are connected with the professional activity of the trader; although such acts may bring the running of the business to an end, they are managerial acts performed for the propose of satisfying requirements other than the family or personal requirements of the trader". Clubs don’t realise that half of their team won’t be producing the goods on a Saturday because they’re so engrossed in gambling. It’s an epidemic.

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I know the desperate stages players can reach through gambling and it’s why the SFA should deal with the problem much more sensitively. The issue which arises is whether this is a "consumer contract" for the purposes of Rule 3(4) of Schedule 8 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982. If it is, it is not disputed that this court has no jurisdiction in the present case as the defender does not have his domicile in Glasgow. Moreover, if the defender falls to be regarded as a "consumer" at the time of entering into the contract, he is entitled to the benefit of certain protections in terms of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999. Scottish football’s gambling problems are bad and getting worse, experts warned yesterday, after a top-flight coach was arrested in a match-fixing probe.

He added: “It still affects me. Even walking next to a bookies and thinking about my mum and nana just kills me. I'm so fortunate that I don't play football now, where you can bet on first corner, first shy, getting sent off. I would be very disappointed if it happened again. No matter the team system or formation we should be able to pass the ball.It comes from FIFA who want to protect their big international tournaments such as the World Cup. It is they who say they don’t want any betting on football but they don’t take too much to do with how it is governed locally. As soon as that decision was made, I just couldn’t wait to tell people. It was like a big burden had been lifted from my shoulders.” Twaddle insists if football was serious about getting tough then it wouldn’t just be high-profile culprits getting outed. THEY missed a golden chance to go to the top of the Premier League, but more than that, far more, Celtic missed Henrik Larsson.