{"id":809031,"date":"2026-07-18T22:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/809031\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:29:19","slug":"how-ivan-toney-got-past-betting-ban-to-start-for-england-in-world-cup-3rd-place-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/809031\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ivan Toney got past betting ban to start for England in World Cup 3rd-place match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems unlikely Ivan Toney will take this for granted.<\/p>\n<p>The striker is starting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> third-place match for England, and while the English squad will be disappointed to be playing in the match, it&#8217;s a chance for Toney to start over a resting Harry Kane.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t always seem like he&#8217;d get back to this point.<\/p>\n<p>He received a suspension in May of 2023 for 232 breaches of the Football Association&#8217;s betting rules following a 20-goal season for Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Thomas Tuchel had called up Toney multiple times since his return from that ban.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/football\/news\/lionel-messi-right-foot-makes-own-magic-help-argentina-stun-england-world-cup-semifinal\/e982a8dc885ee06c4abe053c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lionel Messi&#8217;s right foot makes its own magic in Argentina stunner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toney was in the squad for the 2024 European Championships, when he assisted on a Harry Kane winner in extra time in the Round of 16. He also made his penalty when England advanced past Switzerland in a shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Toney has been playing in the Saudi Pro League, and scoring goals there. That&#8217;s what earned him the call-up from Thomas Tuchel for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>England doesn&#8217;t really have obvious secondary striker options beyond Kane, and so Kane was the man in all the matches before England took a semifinal loss.<\/p>\n<p>But now, Toney gets a chance. It may not be glamorous, but it&#8217;s notable anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not he gets a goal, he returned to start in the World Cup. That&#8217;s quite the comeback.<\/p>\n<p>More FIFA World Cup news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems unlikely Ivan Toney will take this for granted. The striker is starting the World Cup third-place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-809031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}