Ivan Toney bet scandal sparks NINE more players to be charged as those under investigation revealed with 6,683 breaches

IVAN TONEY’S bets ­scandal has sparked the FA charging nine more players with an incredible 6,683 rule breaches.

Four of those nine are former club-mates of Toney,  who are alleged to have broken more than 2,500 rules on betting between them.

Dean Snedker, Lewis Wilson, Callum Westwood and Greg Kaziboni all play in the lower leagues now but crossed paths with Toney at his first club, League One outfit Northampton Town.

The FA’s high-profile case against the Brentford and England striker is believed to have had a domino effect in exposing other possible breaches of regulations.

Toney is serving an eight-month ban after admitting 232 offences between February 2017 and January 2021.

But SunSport can reveal that the FA has laid a total of 6,683 charges against former team-mates of Toney and players that those individuals have played with in the past or currently.

All nine players are awaiting either verdicts or punishments. Seven have admitted rule breaches.

Spalding United player Westwood has admitted 1,319 charges of betting on football between August 2016 and September 2021.
Westwood was a trainee at Northampton a few years below Toney.

Rushden and Diamonds goalkeeper Snedker came through the Northampton youth system with Toney.

Snedker is believed to have denied 503 charges of betting on football between June 2016 and June 2022.

Wilson, whose one  season at Northampton in 2012-13 overlapped with Toney, has admitted 745 counts between March 2017 and October 2022.

St Ives Town player Kaziboni came through the Northampton youth system and into the first team in the same period as Toney.

He has admitted 12 charges dating between August 2018 and November 2021.

There are a number of other betting cases with connections besides Toney.

Westwood and Kaziboni are two of five  former Rushden and Diamonds players charged, in addition to current player Snedker.

Toney’s elder cousin Nathan Hicks, now without a club after leaving Rushden, had admitted 2,753 offences between 2017 and 2022 after being charged this year.

 Hicks was previously fined £500 after admitting 162 bets between December 2014 and January 2017, while he was at Kettering Town.

Former Rushden player Ben Acquaye, now of Tamworth, has admitted 645 charges of placing bets on matches between 2018 and 2019.

The fifth ex-Rushden player to be charged is Ben Ford, who has admitted 466 offences between 2016 and 2019.

Ford, now at Newport Pagnell Town, and Wilson, formerly at the club, are two of four current or ex-NPT players facing charges.

Luke Pennell has denied 200 offences between 2015 and 2021.

James Sage, who has since joined Leighton Town, has held his hands up to a total of 40 offences between 2018 and 2021.

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