Football Code Of Conduct

Give a brief overview of the FA Code of Conduct. Include:

 There are 5 main groups of codes of conduct;

• Young Players
• Adult Players
• Spectators and Parents/Carers
• Coaches, Team Managers and Club Officials
• Match Officials

The code of conduct is in place for people that play at any level of sport to ensure the safety and the respect to the players and the officials on and off the pitch. This is to make sure that they play fare and if anything happens on the pitch or if there was a discision where they needed to see on the cameras then they can look to make sure they know what actions to take next. Its not just people who play in higher levels of football or any other sport that needs the code of conduct even schools have a high respect rate for the code enforce to make sure that no one gets hurt or there is any foul play.

People at a high level of football or any sport will have to respect different levels of behavior. Depending on what they are being accused of they will have to be treated untill it is proven. If it comes back that they have been outof order then they will have to be punished for what they have done even if it minor but the exstent of the affence will judge on what they did and how there punishment will effect them and there team.

Gambling Regulations

Gambling act of 2005 this states that every place in the uk betting, bingo, casinos, gaming machines, society lotteries and remote gambling operations will have 3 objectives:

• keeping gambling crime free
• making sure that gambling is fair and open
• protecting children and vulnerable adults

This makes sure that noone under a sertan age will start playing or betting as this will be illegal and this will make sure that people from these betting sites wont take advantage of people that are younger and presurising people into making bets that wont come through. Also this goes for older people they will make sure that they dont get taken advantage of and make sure that they dont get hooked into gambling.

Every year illegal betting assoisications make millions of takes payers money and much more money is spent on tryint to prevent this from happening. But to make sure that it stays safe they off different services and have age restriction on betting sites and in some bookies in the UK.

The owner of a Belfast poker club, raided by police a year ago, has been fined £3,000 after being convicted of breaking betting and gambling laws. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6340527.stm)