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Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been suspended from all football-related activity for eight months with immediate effect.

Toney, capped once by England, admitted 232 breaches of the Football Association's betting rules, the governing body has announced.

Toney was charged by the FA in November for 262 alleged breaches of betting rules over a four-year period and has now discovered his punishment.

Bees forward Toney, 27, will be banned until January 16th and has been fined £50,000.

"Ivan Toney has been suspended from all football and football-related activity with immediate effect for eight months, which runs up to and including 16 January 2024, fined £50,000 and warned as to his future conduct for breaches of The FA's Betting Rules," an FA statement read.

"The Brentford FC forward was charged with 262 breaches of FA Rule E8 in total between 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021. The FA subsequently withdrew 30 of these breaches and he admitted to the remaining 232.