Friday, 2 June 2017

Aston Villa CEO Keith Wyness given three-week ban for ‘abusive’ retweet

• Keith Wyness retweeted video claiming referees had ‘disabilities’
• Aston Villa CEO unhappy at severity of punishment for ‘honest mistake’

The Aston Villa chief executive, Keith Wyness, has been fined £10,000 and suspended from all football-related activity for three weeks by the Football Association for retweeting an “abusive” social media post.

The 59-year-old shared a Twitter video of Villa being denied a penalty during the final game of the Championship season against Brighton & Hove Albion last month which carried a caption questioning whether underperforming referees had “disabilities”.

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