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Kieran Trippier has been suspended from all football-related activity for 10 weeks and fined £ 70,000 after being found guilty of breaking the Football Association’s betting regulations. The sanction announcement follows a lengthy investigation sparked by irregular betting patterns related to the transfer of the English defender from Tottenham to Atlético de Madrid in July last year.
The FA charged Trippier with seven alleged violations of the rule that prohibits anyone within the game from transmitting information that is not publicly available for others to use for gambling. The 30-year-old has denied all allegations and has said that he himself did not place any bets or profit from bets placed by other people.
Trippier requested a personal audience, which the FA scheduled close to England’s Nations League tie at home to Denmark in October, meaning he could not be selected. An independent commission, appointed to hear the case, found him guilty of four of the alleged breaches. He fired the other three.
Trippier’s punishment follows Daniel Sturridge, former Liverpool and England striker, also for betting irregularities. Sturridge initially received a six-week suspension, with the last four weeks suspended, after being convicted of providing inside information to family and friends in connection with his move from Liverpool in 2018, but the FA successfully appealed the commission’s findings. Independent. and Sturridge received a four-month ban in March.
The FA will study the full written reasons for Trippier’s sanction when they are released in the next few days, but it is not expected to push for a harsher sentence. Trippier also has the right to appeal. His suspension runs until February 28 inclusive, which means he will miss 11 La Liga games plus at least one in the Copa del Rey and the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 at home to him. Chelsea. Atlético has not missed a minute in the League or Champions this season and their absence is going to hit them hard.
Trippier said during the international recess in November that he had tried to put the case in the back of his mind, difficult as it had been. “I am concentrating on my football and trying to give everything that I have done throughout my career,” he said. “My love has always been there [for the game] And always will be. I love going to England at every opportunity, so my thinking is just to enjoy my football. “
