Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney (born 16 March 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Brentford and the England national team. He is banned from all football activities until 17 January 2024 for gambling offences. He was known as the quiet man of that famous 1968 team but, although nowhere near as recognisable as Best or Charlton and too humble to admit it himself, he was a class act and integral to the success of that team, which rose from the ashes of the Munich Air Disaster a decade earlier.

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Regional Theatre credits include: Cat in Stiles and Drewe's Honk! (original production, Watermill Theatre); The Sunshine Boys (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Chips with Everything (Leeds Playhouse); Design for Living (Harrogate Theatre); Company (Oldham Coliseum); Grease and Jesus Christ Superstar (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich) and West Side Story (Perth Playhouse). Scunthorpe battle to the top". Sporting Life. 28 January 2017. Archived from the original on 10 February 2017. Bristol City 1–3 Brentford: Stylish Bees ease past Bristol City". BBC Sport. 8 May 2021 . Retrieved 8 May 2021.

On 14 March 2023, a man who racially abused Toney on social media became the first person to be banned from every English stadium for three years. [68] On 17 May, Toney's season was ended prematurely after playing 33 league matches and scoring 20 goals, as he received an eight month ban from football from the FA for numerous breaches of their player betting rules. [69] International career On 12 August 2014, Toney scored a header in a 3–2 win away to Championship team Wolverhampton Wanderers in the first round of the League Cup. [12] His first goals of the league season arrived on 20 September; on as a substitute for Lawson D'Ath, he scored twice in a home contest against Accrington Stanley but his team nonetheless lost 5–4. [13] A week later, his header was the only goal in victory away to Morecambe. [14] Toney received the first red card of his career on 26 December in a 3–2 home defeat to Bury, being dismissed for fighting with visiting defender Hayden White. [15] After 13 goals in 60 appearances for Northampton across all competitions, Toney signed for Premier League club Newcastle United on 6 August 2015 on a long-term contract for an undisclosed fee. [17] He made his debut on 25 August in the second round of the League Cup, replacing Massadio Haïdara for the final 12 minutes of a 4–1 home win over his former team. [18] On 26 September, he played his first league match for Newcastle, as an 85th-minute substitute for Aleksandar Mitrović in a 2–2 home draw against Chelsea. [19] Loan spells

Television credits include: The Nativity and Just Good Friends (BBC); A Tale of Two Cities (PBS); Brighton Belles (LWT) and the award-winning video New Frontier (Warner Bros).

Toney became the youngest player to represent Northampton Town when he made his first-team debut in 2012, and scored 13 goals in 60 matches across all competitions before joining Newcastle United in 2015. In his first season at Newcastle, he had two successive loan spells with Barnsley, winning the 2015–16 Football League Trophy and the 2016 League One play-offs. He spent the next two years on loan in League One with Shrewsbury Town, Scunthorpe United, and Wigan Athletic. Upon leaving Bank Robbery in 2019, he joined the first UK Tour of Laura Wade’s Posh, playing Harry Villiers. Swann, Alan (12 August 2018). "ROCHDALE 1, PETERBOROUGH UNITED 4: Six goals and six points represents a great start for impressive Posh". Peterborough Telegraph . Retrieved 2 January 2019.

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Bomber’s formidable composure in front of goal was a renowned quality which earned him cult status among the Albion faithful, being named as the leading goal-scorer at The Hawthorns for five consecutive seasons from 1970/71 to 1974/75, as well as a further year as Albion’s go-to-man during the 1977/78 campaign. Another formative influence on him was the British blues harmonica player Cyril Davies (who would die in 1964 aged 31). “I used to go and see him at the Marquee Club,” said McPhee. “Somebody said something about this R&B band and they were there every Thursday and they were just magic.” Tony started his poker career on a more conservative side, as his early tournaments were mostly lower buy-ins. Three appearances and one goal in Football League Trophy, three appearances in League One play-offs

His 10 goals in the League Cup helped the Baggies lift the trophy in 1966, with a dramatic 5-3 aggregate victory over West Ham United.

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Minutes later, he turned provider to shrug off Max Kilman and lay strike partner Bryan Mbeumo's first Premier League goal on a plate. In the grip of early dementia, a frail unrecognisable figure is wheeled to the side of the Old Trafford pitch where he played hundreds of times with distinction for Manchester United. On 9 November 2015, Toney joined League One club Barnsley on a 28-day youth loan. [20] He made his debut the next day in the Northern quarter-finals of the Football League Trophy, starting in a 2–1 home win over York. [21] On 5 December, he scored his first goal for Barnsley away to Wigan Athletic in the Trophy's next round, a header in a 2–2 draw, and also converted his attempt as they won in the subsequent penalty shoot-out. [22] A week later, he scored his first league goal for the club, deciding a 3–2 win away to Colchester United with a header from Marley Watkins' cross. [23]