{"id":6596,"date":"2015-02-13T14:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2015-02-13T14:55:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T14:55:27","slug":"simonsen-lying-you-wanna-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=6596","title":{"rendered":"Simonsen Lying? – You Wanna Bet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any fans of South Park out there may be familiar with the episode where Eric Cartman cheats so well at an exam that he ends up\u00a0becoming a teacher and tries to leads a bunch of\u00a0ghetto high school\u00a0kids to exam greatness. Does he try and do is this through Inspiration and Dedication?<\/p>\n

Hell No! In typical Cartman style, its all by lying and cheating.<\/p>\n

The key point\u00a0of the show \u00a0is when the Teacher “Mr Cartmanez” offers the students the exam answers and the down trodden\u00a0 but morally strong kids ask the weaselly\u00a0Cartman\u00a0“But isnt this Cheating?”. Cartman looks back at them and says “Is it Cheating when a White Man does it?”<\/p>\n

The class stare back in surprise and Cartman sums up his argument by listing\u00a0the reaction of\u00a0famous White Americans when caught acting in the incorrect manner. “Did these people put their hands up and admit to cheating?” muses Cartman, “No they did not, the White Man does not cheat!..he claims to have simply MISINTERPRETED THE RULES!”<\/p>\n

\"Mr_Cartmenez\"<\/p>\n

If you want a famous recent example of this at Home,\u00a0remember the MPs Expenses scandal. Despite being blatantlycaught fiddling their expenses and stealing (tax-payers) money, a crime you or I would be sacked and possibly prosecuted for, we\u00a0simply had\u00a0600+ cheating MPs band together and collectively say that\u00a0they\u00a0‘MISINTERPRETED THE RULES’.<\/p>\n

The outcome?<\/p>\n

A few MPs had to pay back\u00a0a little of the accumulated\u00a0cash, no MPs\u00a0were sacked\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0it was\u00a0\u00a0The Expenses Officer who was\u00a0the only one given their marching orders and duly replaced by someone chosen by the MPs themselves.<\/p>\n

And therefore it was with a wide grin on my face\u00a0yesterday\u00a0that I heard that Rangers goalkeeper Steve Simonsen (when asked about breaking strict guidelines on Footballers and Betting ) had claimed\u00a0he\u00a0simply \u00a0‘MISINTERPRETED THE RULES’\u00a0 rather than admit any wrong doing by placing bets.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/rangers-keeper-steve-simonsens-lightly-5151860<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Record Sport<\/strong> understands he told a disciplinary hearing at Hampden he believed the SFA followed the same rules as their counterparts in England when he moved north in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n

So according to The Daily Record,\u00a0Simonsen went on to suggest he believed the English rules were in play here in Scotland, as if no one had ever raised the EXACT matter of what was deemed\u00a0right and wrong in respect to players betting on football while plying their trade in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Lets have a quick check on a timeline shall we:<\/p>\n