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November 21 – Simply 48 hours after the English Soccer Affiliation introduced that Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur would serve a seven-match home ban for feedback made about his teammate Son Heung-min, the North London outfit has appealed towards the size of the ban.
If the attraction is unsuccessful, the 27-year-old Uruguay worldwide will miss six Premier League fixtures and a Carabao Cup quarter-final towards Manchester United.
Bentancur was charged with misconduct in September, three months after he’d given a tv interview in his house nation the place he was requested to offer a shirt belonging to a Spurs participant. “Sonny’s?” he replied. “It could possibly be Sonny’s cousin too as all of them look the identical.”
Bentancur subsequently apologised to Son on Instagram and the Spurs captain accepted that apology on the identical platform. “I’ve spoken with Lolo [Bentancur]. He made a mistake, he is aware of this and has apologised,” Son stated.
“Lolo wouldn’t imply to ever deliberately say one thing offensive. We’re brothers and nothing has modified in any respect. We’re previous this, we’re united and we will likely be again collectively in pre-season to combat for our membership as one.”
Spurs stated: “Whereas we settle for the responsible discovering towards Rodrigo by the impartial regulatory fee, we consider the following sanction is extreme. Rodrigo will stay suspended from home competitions whereas the attraction is heard, and the membership will make no additional remark throughout this time”.
The usual ban for this breach of misconduct has been established as six matches. The Spurs attraction will likely be hoping to get at the very least a one-match discount within the suspension. Bentancur’s ban begins with Saturday night’s journey to Manchester Metropolis, a membership that Tottenham have had nice success towards during the last 5 years. Bentancur was additionally hit arduous within the pocket because the FA fined him £100,000.
Most not too long ago, Edinson Cavani was sanctioned for utilizing the time period ‘negrito’ in an Instagram publish, whereas Bernardo Silva acquired a one-match ban and a £50,000 wonderful for a social media publish evaluating Benjamin Mendy to a ‘conguito’.
Beforehand, Luis Suarez acquired an eight-match suspension in 2011 for utilizing racist language in the direction of Manchester United’s Patrice Evra, and former England captain, John Terry was given a four-game ban in 2012 after being discovered responsible of utilizing racist language in the direction of QPR’s Anton Ferdinand.
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