Emmanuel Monthe has been suspended for Walsall FC’s next seven matches, fined £1,200 and ordered to complete a mandatory education programme for a breach of FA Rule E3.2 that occurred while he was playing for Tranmere Rovers FC in an EFL League Two match against Forest Green Rovers FC on Saturday 1 May 2021.
The FA charged the defender for allegedly using abusive and/or insulting words towards a Forest Green Rovers FC player in the ninth minute of this match, which is contrary to FA Rule E3.1, and also alleged that this constitutes an “aggravated breach”, as defined in FA Rule E3.2, because it included a reference to sexual orientation.
Emmanuel Monthe denied the charge but an independent Regulatory Commission found it to be proven and imposed these sanctions during a subsequent hearing. The written reasons for these decisions will be published in due course.
Personally I’d have to hear a statement from the player, showing genuine regret and remorse (and not just a “sorry to those who feel offended” cookie cutter) before I feel comfortable seeing him in a Walsall shirt again.
Proven guilty , we’re having to pay his wages whilst he sits 7 matches out for being a homophonic twonk. Sack him off now as a club players like this should have nothing to do with our team.
Finish a blokes career with a bad tackle and you get a 3 game ban. Use inappropriate language and you get a 7 game ban and a hefty fine. Something wrong here in my view.
I am not defending what he did just comparing the sentence.When I was a lad and bullied at school I was told just get on with your life.You are better than him. I was and am. Sometimes you just have to rise above such things and get on with life.
But we don’t know what prompted Monthe to say what he said do we? If these rules had been in place in earlier decades some of our heroes would hardly have had careers.Verbals have always gone on in football as well as physical challenges.
