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.
Ryan Taylor
Comeback king the poster boy for FA's double standards

BIG-MATCH VERDICT 

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.

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