Friday, 23 December 2016

FA reveal reasons for racial abuse ban for Newcastle’s Jonjo Shelvey

• Midfielder to miss five games after altercation with Wolves’ Romain Saiss
• Saiss’s team-mates said Shelvey used the word ‘Arab’, commission hears

The Newcastle United midfielder Jonjo Shelvey was accused of referring to his Wolverhampton Wanderers counterpart Romain Saiss as an “Arab cunt”, the Football Association has revealed.

Shelvey, 24, was banned this week for five games, fined £100,000 and ordered to attend a mandatory education course after an FA misconduct charge, which the England international denied, was found proven by an independent regulatory commission.

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