Kick It Out trustee Leroy Rosenior has
called on the Football Association to
hand out a minimum 10-game
suspension for racist abuse.
In recent seasons, John Terry and Luis
Suarez have both been involved in
high-profile cases of racial abuse but
received different punishments.
The FA handed Liverpool striker Suarez an eight-game ban for comments directed at
Manchester United's Patrice Evra in October 2011, while Chelsea captain Terry served
a four-game suspension for language aimed towards Queens Park Rangers' Anton
Ferdinand weeks later.
Rosenior believes these punishments did not send the right message and has urged
the governing body to establish a set ban for players found guilty of racist abuse to
act as a real deterrent.
"If someone is found guilty of racist abuse then the minimum is a 10-game ban - that
will send a message out to people that it is unacceptable," he told The Daily
Telegraph. "10 games is the appropriate starting point for this sort of behaviour. Four
games is not enough."
The 48-year-old also called on the FA to deal with the cases quicker to avoid them
spiralling out of control.
"Let’s be quick, investigate properly, get the facts right. If found guilty, punish them,
send out a message, educate them," he continued. "The problem with the Terry and
Suarez incidents it that they weren’t dealt with appropriately from the outset so it
snowballed and they became these massive baddies."
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