Chris Sutton

jeopardising your career, your contract, even your family’s future by sticking a bet on when you know it is not allowed?

If you choose to do it, you run the risk of being caught and looking for others to blame is just not on.

Listening to some boys saying that betting is rife within the game just now beggars belief.

Not that these guys are wrong but that people are flaunting the rules despite all the warnings being so clear.

I’ve heard bookmakers should be taking a closer look at themselves. Listen, bookies invite footballers to jollies at the horse racing or the dogs. They give them bet vouchers to use for a bit of fun. It happens.

They take bets. That’s their business. Spare me the stuff about players being put in a tough position and being tempted by the advertising and marketing of bookies around the game.

If a bookie has an advert at half-time on a live game, so what? You don’t have to bet. I’d imagine if an advert for Domestos comes on, they don’t run upstairs and start cleaning the toilet.

You can’t point fingers at bookmakers for doing their jobs and saying it’s their fault players are in this mess.

It’s like someone drink-driving, getting caught by the police and then blaming a brewery because they make and sell beer.

No one makes you drink it. No one makes you bet.

I see Fraser Wishy-Washart coming out this week and talking about some sort of amnesty for those who may have broken the