FIFA reveals harsher punishment for racist behaviour
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Saturday, 13 July, 2019, 02:35
FIFA wants teams to automatically forfeit matches if their supporters are found to be guilty of racist and other discriminatory behaviour, world football’s governing body has announced. “Unless there are exceptional circumstances, if a match is abandoned by the referee because of racist and/or discriminatory conduct, the match shall be declared forfeited,” FIFA say in their new Disciplinary Code launched on Thursday. The measure can be applied after the referee has applied the “three-step procedure” for such incidents, which includes requesting a public announcement to call for any such behaviour to cease, suspending the match until it stops, and finally, abandoning the match altogether. |
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