Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Newcastle’s Jonjo Shelvey pleads not guilty to FA charge of using racist language

• Shelvey alleged to have directed abusive language at Wolves’ Romain Saïss
• Midfielder faces minimum five-match ban if found guilty of misconduct

Newcastle United’s Jonjo Shelvey has pleaded not guilty to a charge from the Football Association of using abusive language towards an opponent that included reference to ethnicity, race or nationality and requested a personal hearing.

The misconduct charge from the governing body relates to an incident which allegedly occurred during Newcastle’s 2-0 Championship defeat by Wolverhampton Wanderers at St James’ Park in September.

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