{"id":471138,"date":"2023-11-27T08:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471138"},"modified":"2023-11-27T08:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:27:02","slug":"lewis-dunk-receives-2-game-ban-after-lashing-out-at-referee","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lewis-dunk-receives-2-game-ban-after-lashing-out-at-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Dunk receives 2-game ban after lashing out at referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Dunk has been handed a two-game ban by the Premier League FA for lashing out at referee Anthony Taylor during his team 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lewis Dunk is the first player to be sent off for abusing a referee while on the pitch during a game since Alan Smith for Newcastle United in 2008!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCFootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zil03U8bZM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zil03U8bZM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1729111577738002811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dunk initially received a yellow card for questioning Taylor&#8217;s decision to reward Forest a penalty, but moments later the defender was dismissed after saying something to the match official.<\/p>\n<p>Sources indicate that the 32-year-old must have said something &#8216;offensive, insulting or abusive language&#8217;, which is later punished by a two-match ban.<\/p>\n<p>Dunk becomes the first player in the Premier League to be dismissed for that offence since Alan Smith in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>It means, the Brighton&#8217;s captain will miss their trip to Chelsea on December 3 and the home game against Brentford 3 days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Dunk has been handed a two-game ban by the Premier League FA for lashing out at referee Anthony Taylor during his team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":471139,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18821],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18822,22192],"acf":{"announce":"The Brighton's captain will miss the next 2 games","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471140,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471138\/revisions\/471140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471138"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471138"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}