FA looking into Arsenal yellow card due to suspicious betting patterns

The Football Association are "looking into" a yellow card for an Arsenal player after bookmakers reported suspicious betting patterns in a Premier League match this season.

An unusually high amount of money was placed on the Arsenal player to collect a yellow card and when contacted by The Athletic a spokesperson said: "The FA is aware of the matter in question and is looking into it."

Betting on players to be carded has grown in popularity in recent years and is now offered by most bookmakers on Premier League matches, while it is possible with some firms and also on Betfair's Exchange to bet in-play on the market.

Ex-Sutton goalkeeper Wayne Shaw received a two-month ban for "intentionally influencing a football betting market" after he ate a pie, which was a novelty market offered by one bookmaker.

England international Kieran Trippier was banned for ten weeks after an independent panel found he had encouraged friends to bet on his transfer to Atletico Madrid from Tottenham in 2019 and former Three Lions forward Daniel Sturridge spent four months on the sidelines for a similar misdemeanour.

Sturridge faced various charges claiming he passed on inside information and he later said: "I feel the betting companies and the practice and process of people placing bets on players moving clubs has to be stopped."

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