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Comeback king the poster boy for FA's double standards
Sunday Express
|January 21, 2024
IVAN TONEY has spent the past eight months plastering his body in tattoos to help forget his gambling ban hell.
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Yet here on his long-awaited return to action, the more significant words were not written in ink. They were emblazoned across his chest.
Welcome to English football’s stomach-churning double standards. A broken system that is happy to endorse gambling and claim its poisonous cash but fall into its murky traps and you will be hung out to dry.
“I feel like a free man,” declared a stone-faced Toney in midweek.
He has not been held captive but the heartfelt statement was a damning reflection of the crippling mental struggles he has endured on his long-winding road to liberation.
A smartly crafted 19th-minute free-kick showed Toney’s goalscoring powers have evidently not waned during his gruelling search for salvation.
This story is from the January 21, 2024 edition of Sunday Express.
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