FA fines Cardiff City £15,000 for homophobic chant v Chelsea

FA fines Cardiff City £15,000 for homophobic chant v Chelsea

The Football Association has fined Cardiff City £15,000 after the membership’s followers aimed homophobic chants at Chelsea.

Premier League facet Chelsea beat League One Cardiff 3-1 in an EFL Cup quarter-final at Cardiff City Stadium on 16 December.

Cardiff say they’ve additionally been issued with an “action plan” by the FA for the abusive, offensive, homophobic and discriminatory chant in the course of the second minute of the fixture.

A membership spokesman stated that whereas Cardiff acknowledge the cost and settle for the incident occurred, they are going to be lodging an attraction in opposition to what they consider to be an “excessive” positive imposed.

The Welsh membership say they may current proof that they took all affordable measures to coach and inform and acted instantly on the night time with elimination of people and massive display messaging.

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