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OM consider appealing ban

Ligue 1 giants Olympique Marseille are considering an after being hit with a one-match stadium ban by the Ligue de Football Professionnel Disciplinary Commission.

The LFP has handed down the ban after reviewing Marseille’s game with Monaco on October 4, when fans used flares and threw missiles.

The commission cited previous offences by Marseille fans when choosing to impose a ban rather than another fine.

But that brought an angry response from OM director Antoine Veyrat.

“We are disappointed and bitter,” he said.

“We’re now waiting for notification of the exact nature of the sanction.

“Of course, the club will use all legal means at our disposal to show what action we have taken and our good faith in this affair.”

Marseille could also be facing further action with the behaviour of their fans in the match against Paris Saint Germaine last weekend also now under review.

Abhimanyu Rajput

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FA charges West Ham and Millwall over violence

West Ham and Millwall face punishment by the English Football Association after being charged with several offences following the crowd violence that marred their League Cup clash in August.

The FA have issued four charges against West Ham and three against Millwall following an investigation into the serious disturbances in and around Upton Park on August 25.

A 44-year-old man was taken to hospital with stab wounds and several others were injured, while West Ham striker Carlton Cole and Millwall’s Jason Price both suffered racist abuse during the match, which the Hammers won 3-1 after extra time.

A full range of sanctions are available including the clubs being made to play matches behind closed doors.

An FA statement said each club faces charges of; failure to ensure their supporters refrained from violent, threatening, obscene and provocative behaviour; failure to ensure their supporters refrained from racist behaviour and failure to ensure their supporters did not throw missiles, harmful or dangerous objects onto the pitch.

West Ham have also been charged with failure to ensure their supporters did not enter the field of play after fans invaded the pitch after each of their team’s goals in the victory over their London rivals.

The FA’s statement added: “The FA has liaised closely with all relevant authorities including the Metropolitan Police during the course of its investigations and has been in constant dialogue with both clubs during this time.

“Both clubs now have a period of 14 days to respond to the charges.”

LONDON (AFP)

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Man City to fight Adebayor charge

Manchester City will fight the Football Association’s improper conduct charge against Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor after his goal celebration against his former club Arsenal last weekend.

After scoring in City’s 4-2 win over the Gunners, Adebayor sprinted the length of the Eastlands pitch to the far end of the stadium where Arsenal’s supporters were massed and slid to his knees with his arms out-stretched, sparking volatile scenes as the visiting fans threw missiles at him.

However, City manager Mark Hughes confirmed on Friday that the club would be contesting the charge.

Adebayor is already starting a three-match ban after accepting a violent conduct charge for a stamp on Arsenal’s Robin van Persie.

“We have time to construct our arguments. We have a view and a period of time to make our feelings known,” Hughes said.

“It is important you do not take the emotion out of the game. It is part and parcel of what football is about and why it is such a huge sport worldwide.

“The circumstances of the game and the amount of criticism and vitriol Ade had to take was not nice. It was a difficult situation for him coming up against former team-mates.

“Some of those former team-mates felt they could not even shake his hand before the game. All these things can perhaps affect someone’s emotional state. The celebration was an outpouring of that.

“I also feel there are comparisons to be made with Ade’s celebration and the reaction of van Persie when he scored.”

MANCHESTER, England (AFP)

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Since when did football’s baying mobs occupy the moral high ground?

Many Arsenal supporters spent half of last season, and most of Saturday’s match, screaming abuse at Emmanuel Adebayor. On Saturday, he scored and dared to run the length of the pitch to celebrate in front of them.

“Outrageous” and “shocking” screamed just about everyone. Obviously he should take the blame for the visiting fans’ subsequent eruption of hatred and vitriol. It was clearly his fault that some of them threw missiles on to the pitch and he is obviously culpable for the City steward being knocked unconscious in the melee.

He got booked for his troubles – for “incitement” – and now there is talk of him being banned.

What tosh.

Crowds abusing players, whether it is the polite booing of a former member of their club or the increasingly nasty attacks of recent seasons, has always been part of the game. When a player has the temerity to reply with a “shush”, or a finger on the lips, hand cupped to ear etc those same fans appear outraged.

Look at the photographs from Saturday’s game as Adebayor slid towards the visitors’ section. The furious hatred, the hand signals, the abuse shown by some fans – ground bylaw offences by the bucketload and enough to have the perpetrators thrown out of the ground should the stewards have chosen to act.

Mitch Phillips, London

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Austria bans vuvuzelas – but not because of the noise

The Austrian professional football league on Thursday imposed a stadium ban on the long plastic trumpet, the vuvuzela, which made such a noisy impression in last month’s Confederations Cup in South Africa.

But the league said the vuvuzelas were being banned not for the deafening and tuneless din they produce but because they might be used as missiles.

“Vuvuzelas can be used as projectiles. Furthermore, they can incite aggressive behaviour amongst other fans,” Austrian league spokesman Christian Kircher said.

Newly-promoted Wiener Neustadt had been counting on handing out 150 vuvuzelas to fans to make some noise during the league’s seasonal kick-off at home on Friday against Austria Carinthia.

The trumpets caused consternation among some in South Africa for the Confed Cup, with several non-African players and coaches calling for their ban.

But the president of world football’s governing body FIFA, Sepp Blatter, has given them his blessing, blasting the detractors by telling them Africa is about dance and music and that moaning about the instrument bordered on discrimination.

VIENNA (AFP)

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UEFA reduce Drogba, Bosingwa bans on appeal

European football’s governing body UEFA on Wednesday agreed to reduce bans handed down to Chelsea striker Didier Drogba and defender Jose Bosingwa for their angry outbursts which followed the club’s Champions League exit to Barcelona in May.

Drogba was originally given a fixed four-match ban and Bosingwa a three-match ban after they made controversial comments following Chelsea’s 1-1 second leg semi-final draw with eventual champions Barcelona at Stamford Bridge.

UEFA decided to reduce both players’ suspension by one game after Chelsea appealed.

A UEFA statement on the body’s website read: “Under the UEFA Appeals Body’s verdicts, Drogba will be suspended for five UEFA club competition matches – the last two of which will be deferred for a probationary period of three years – and (he) has been fined 15,000 euros.

“Bosingwa will be suspended for three UEFA club competition matches, the last of which is deferred for a probationary period of three years, and fined 10,000 euros.”

UEFA’s initial fine of 100,000 euros for the improper conduct of their players and the throwing of missiles by their fans stands, however.

In full earshot of the television cameras Drogba ranted at Norwegian referee Tom Henning Ovrebo after Chelsea conceded a last-gasp equaliser to exit the tournament on away goals.

The Blues also felt that Ovrebo should have awarded them several penalties.

Bosingwa then described Ovrebo as a “thief” in an interview on Portuguese television.

Both players later apologised and Bosingwa withdrew his comments.

Chelsea appealed the bans in the belief that the punishments “were unnecessarily harsh given the circumstances.”

NYON, Switzerland (AFP)

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France find feet against 10-man Turkey

PARIS (AFP) – France signed off before the summer recess with a much-needed 1-0 victory over Euro 2008 semi-finalists Turkey in a rain-sodden friendly here on Friday.

Jeered throughout their 1-0 defeat to Nigeria on Tuesday, Raymond Domenech’s side responded with a more industrious display against a side reduced to 10 men for over 50 minutes following Uzulmez Ibrahim’s dismissal.

Karim Benzema’s goal from the ensuing penalty was enough to decide the match, which was held up in the closing stages when visiting fans hurled missiles onto the pitch before being placated by Turkey coach Fatih Terim.

Driving rain made for a slippery pitch and sloppy touches, despite France’s best attempts to atone for the loss against Nigeria in Saint Etienne that was marred by enthusiastic barracking from their own fans.

It took the hosts until the 32nd minute to fashion a clear sight at goal, but Nicolas Anelka shot wastefully wide of the near post after being set free by Yoann Gourcuff.

Within a minute Turkey had spurned an even more gilded chance, when Nuri Sahin sidefooted Mevlut Erding’s cut-back past the left-hand post from 15 yards.

The game turned eight minutes before half-time, Ibrahim seeing red for dragging Anelka back after the Chelsea striker exploited the defender’s weak back-header to surge past visiting goalkeeper Volkan Demirel and advance on an unguarded goal.

Benzema’s penalty found the bottom-left corner via Volkan’s right hand, but the Fenerbahce man had better luck when Benzema’s half-time replacement Andre-Pierre Gignac shot straight at him after a clever dummy from the enterprising Florent Malouda.

In-demand Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery joined the fray in the second half, and he twice drew agile saves from Volkan before home goalkeeper Hugo Lloris reacted sharply at the other end to kick away a goalbound touch from team-mate Philippe Mexes.

France finished strongly, with Volkan saving from Gourcuff, Gignac and Bacary Sagna, while Sidney Govou curled the ball against the post and Jean-Alain Boumsong had a header cleared off the line.

France are two points behind Serbia in European World Cup qualifying group seven. Their campaign resumes on August 12 with a trip to the Faroe Islands.

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Chelsea faces UEFA disciplinary on June 17

GENEVA (AFP) – UEFA said Friday that Chelsea as well as Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa will face European football’s disciplinary body on June 17 following incidents in the Champions League tie against Barcelona.

The governing body said it had started disciplinary proceedings against the London club over the “improper conduct of players and the throwing of missiles by their supporters”.

Drogba and Bosingwa also face proceedings “for being in breach of the principles of sportsmanship by insulting the referee by making offensive comments,” UEFA added in a statement.

Drogba faces potentially severe sanctions over his confrontation with Norwegian referee Tom Henning Ovrebo after Barcelona’s injury-time goal sent the London side crashing out of the Champions League semi-final last month.

His case was further aggravated by him screaming an obscenity into a television camera about the official.

UEFA examined both the referee’s and the delegate’s reports before it decided to refer the case to its Disciplinray and control Body.

The club and both players have until May 29 to file their submissions in the case.

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