FOOTBALL – Premier League players found guilty of discrimination offences will face a minimum 10-match ban under strengthened English FA sanction guidelines for aggravated breaches, the governing body said yesterday.
“Enhanced measures are necessary to tackle this abhorrent conduct, and our updated sanction guidelines will now require Regulatory Commissions to impose a standard suspension of at least 10 matches in these circumstances,” the FA said in a statement.
An aggravated breach covers misconduct involving an explicit or implied reference to a person’s ethnicity, colour, race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
The FA’s recommended match suspensions for players, managers and technical-area occupants found guilty of aggravated breaches had previously ranged from six to 12 games.
Under the revised guidelines, longer bans may be imposed where significant aggravating factors exist.
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