Bassett plans to organise an awareness campaign for other players to educate them about the betting regulations at that level of football.
The player has been charged with breaching the FA’s E8 rule, which prohibits all footballers from betting on the sport in any form.
He is hardly the first to find themselves in this situation in recent years – a number of notable players at much larger teams, like Newcastle United, Brentford and Nottingham Forest, have been charged with breaching the rule over the past couple of years.
What is significant though is that unlike these clubs, Lewes FC is notable for being vocally opposed to betting’s visibility in football, and is highlighting the incident as an example of the risks of the gambling-football relationship.
The Sussex club has been a partner of gambling reform advocacy group and charity Gambling With L..
