Former Lincoln City player Harry Toffolo given suspended five-month ban after admitting to 375 betting breaches
He now plays for Nottingham Forest in the Premier League
Former Lincoln City player Harry Toffolo has been given a suspended five-month ban due to betting breaches. The defender admitted to 375 breaches of betting rules in total.
The 28-year-old signed for Lincoln in 2018 on a two-year deal. He played 72 games in total for the Imps and scored four goals during his time at the club.
Toffolo joined Nottingham Forest in July 2022 where he currently plays as a full back. The club is yet to release a statement regarding Toffolo’s betting breaches.
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Clamour For Tickets Means Something is Going Well
How do you know when your football club is doing well? Is it by the league table? Is it performances and results on the pitch? Is it the bank balance?
Nope, it’s none of these things. You know your club is doing well when they get a big cup draw, and social media is awash with a willy-waving contest to see who the biggest fans are. That’s how you know. In that respect, Lincoln City are as big right now as at any point since Danny Cowley left, because the battle for the biggest fan has got underway as West Ham tickets have sold out.
Were you at Notts County and Sheffield United? No? But you do have a West Ham ticket? Bandwaggoner. But wait, you went to those games but didn’t do Shrewsbury away in the cup two years ago? Does that make you better or worse than someone who was at the first Milk Cup game against West Ham in the eighties? Hang on though – you didn’t make that game, but your first game was in 1973? Does longevity trump regular attendance now? What if you have been going since 1987, but have gone to every game? Are you better than someone who started going in 1954, hasn’t been for a few years but, in a shocking instance of coincidence, suddenly feel the West Ham game is the one to get you back into the club?
It’s all rubbish really. You can’t measure how much of a fan someone is. There’s no such thing as a bandwaggoner, not really. It stands to reason there would be higher demand for West Ham tickets because, in the scheme of things, they’re as big a club as almost any we could have drawn. Arguably, only the two Manchester teams, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Spurs would have been a bigger draw. Why? Because for many West Ham represents East London, they represent something traditional and grounded about football. They’re the working-class team, even if they have a fan-unfriendly new stadium. Hell, even I watched their European final last season and felt their win was something worth raising a glass to. If Liverpool, Man Utd, or one of the others are in a European final, I usually do something else. Anything else.
