Football manager who gambled nearly £1MILLION secretly LET OFF by FA as Ivan Toney serves eight-month ban

A football manager who allegedly gambled nearly £1MILLION has secretly been let off by the FA, according to reports.

The unnamed head coach, who allegedly placed bets on football, admitted to being a gambling addict in evidence presented to a court last year in which two ex-footballers were accused of blackmailing him.

The coach has been let off by the FA despite placing bets on footballGetty

According to The Athletic, he had eight betting accounts.

SunSport has contacted the FA for comment.

The majority of the bets were placed on horse racing, although the court also heard he had broken FA rules by gambling on football.

But he was let off with a warning as no further action was taken.

Earlier this year, Brentford striker Ivan Toney was banned from football for eight months for breaching betting rules.

And Nottingham Forest defender Harry Toffolo was handed a suspended five-month ban on Wednesday after also breaching betting regulations.

However, no such punishment was handed out to the unnamed manager.

A court was made to conceal the manager’s identity when the two players in question, Alan Rogers and Steven Jennings, were set to go on trial in 2022.

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They had plead not guilty to the charges and they were dropped when the unnamed manager changed his mind and did not want to proceed with the trial.

The court heard the manager gambled £879,000 across a two-year period, losing £270,000.

One of his court letters explaining his desire to abandon the trial led to a judge being “concerned about his welfare”.

The manager is no longer with the club where his gambling led to an FA investigation.

The case was complicated by the manager receiving anonymity, with one person with knowledge of the FA processes understood to have been doubtful the governing body would be willing to “grapple with the issue” by punishing him.