England international and Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli has been handed a £50,000 fine, banned for premier league restart against Manchester United and must attend an educational course after being found guilty of an “aggravated breach” of Rule E3, which included a reference to race and/or colour and/or ethnic origin and/or nationality .
Dele Alli said he was “betrayed” by a friend who sold a private Snapchat video of him mocking coronavirus – an act that has landed him a one-match ban.
Alli will miss his side’s first Premier League game of the restart against Manchester United next week after the FA finally delivered its ruling on a case that has been ongoing since February.
The 24-year-old posted a video of himself wearing a mask in an airport lounge on February 6 before zooming in on an Asian man, with the caption “Corona whattttt, please listen with volume”.
Dele Alli has been suspended for one match with immediate effect, fined £50,000 and must undertake a face-to-face education course following a breach of FA Rule E3.
The video was promptly deleted and Alli posted an apology, but not before one of the 160 recipients on his close friends list on Snapchat had copied it and sold it to a national newspaper.
Alli insisted at Monday’s hearing, although the video did not pick up the Asian man coughing, that is the reason he zoomed in on him rather than because of his race.
But the three-man regulatory commission ruled that Alli was making an obvious connection between an Asian man and the virus, which at the time had not spread to Europe or become a global pandemic.
The FA’s written reasons for the decision read: “The player explained that he decided to delete the video before he boarded his flight to Dubai.
“It was the following day that he became aware that he had, in his words, been “betrayed” by someone on his Snapchat group and the post had been given to the media
“An apology was made in which the player detailed that he had ‘let himself down’, but it was the player’s evidence to the commission that he did not regard the content of the video to be of a kind to ‘cross the line’ into conduct answerable under Rule E3, in particular as the video, in his opinion, “had nothing to do with the ethnicity of the man”.
Coronavirus started in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. It was allergely discovered on the 10th of December, 2019.
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