Class ! 14 of the longest bans in English football

While a direct crimson card earns a participant a three-match ban, the powers that be - usually known as the FA - are capable of impose harsher penalties the place they see match. Fulham's Aleksandar Mitrovic is the most recent participant to behave completely exterior the approved pointers of the sport, after pushing referee Chris Kavanagh all via an FA Cup quarter-final tie within the path of Manchester United in March 2023.

Accused of violent and inappropriate conduct, Mitrovic later acquired an eight-match ban from an unbiased tribunal for shoving the referee, though the FA talked about it could enchantment the choice on the grounds that the punishment was not not extreme sufficient.

Either methodology, this penalty incident is method from being one in every of many worst inflicted on English soccer on condition that daybreak of time, as the next 14 avid avid gamers can attest...

14. Paolo Di Canio – 11 video video video games

As he was despatched off by Paul Alcock in Sheffield Wednesday's Premier League battle with Arsenal in 1998, Di Canio took umbrage on the referee. Instead of solemnly marching to the dressing room, the Italian shoved Alcock, subsequently receiving an 11-game ban and a £10,000 giant.

It wasn't the primary time Alcock had confronted a bodily altercation with a participant all via a sport.

In 1992, in a sport between West Brom and Exeter City, Frank Sinclair pushed and tackled Alcock after awarding City a penalty. The FA punished him with a nine-game ban.

13. Charlie Mitten – six months

While touring Colombia with Manchester United in 1950, Colombian facet Independiente Santa Fe outfitted Charlie Mitten a contract with far extra money than he was receiving from the English facet.

Mitten stayed in South America for a 12 months whereas nonetheless being registered, beneath FIFA tips, by Manchester United. Colombia was not a part of FIFA on the time, though she joined on the tip of his first 12 months all through the nation, which subsequently meant he couldn't play for Independiente Santa Fe as his registration was nonetheless with United.

Upon his return, Mitten was banned by the FA, who fined him six months' wages and banned him from collaborating in for a similar interval.

12. Joss Labadie – six months

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While collaborating in for Torquay United in 2014, Joss Labadie was handed a ten-match ban and a £2,000 giant for biting Chesterfield's Ollie Banks. It was alleged that he furthermore bit Armand Gnanduillet throughout the an similar match.

Following his earlier offences, Labadie, now at Dagenham & Redbridge in 2015, acquired a six-month soccer ban for biting the finger of Stevenage defender Ronnie Henry.

11. Rio Ferdinand – eight months

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Ferdinand was banned from collaborating in for eight months from January 2004 after failing a drug try, which means he missed Euro 2004 with England in consequence.

An unbiased tribunal discovered him accountable of misconduct after failing to cross a try in September 2003, regardless of being chosen to present a pattern to UK Sport doping officers at United's instructing flooring.

10. Mark Boschich – 9 months

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Bosnich had his contract terminated at Chelsea when he failed a cocaine try in April 2003, with the FA handing him a nine-month suspension. He rapidly retired thereafter, though he all the time maintained his innocence.

"Yes, I took remedy nonetheless solely after my occupation was over. I've no regrets. I owe completely nothing to soccer," Bosnich talked about. "At the time of my drug try in November 2002, I used to be not taking cocaine…I spoke to a girl who later admitted she slipped the medicine in her drink, I needed to take a sip from her drink.

9. Eric Cantona – 9 months

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Sent off in Manchester United's sport within the path of Crystal Palace in 1995 at Selhurst Park, Cantona walked the touchline. However, Matthew Simmons taunted the Frenchman whereas doing so, forcing Cantona to throw himself over the billboards and kung fu kicked the Palace fan.

As efficiently as being suspended from soccer for 9 months by the FA, Cantona was furthermore ordered to carry out 120 hours of group service.

8. Abel Xavier – 12 months

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Xavier turned the primary Premier League participant to be banned for taking performance-enhancing remedy in 2005, when he was convicted of taking the anabolic steroid methandrostenolone (moreover referred to as dianabol). Other avid avid gamers had been convicted of taking leisure remedy, nonetheless none had examined optimistic for PEDs till Xavier.

A Middlesbrough participant on the time, the FA initially banned him for 18 months prior to decreasing him to only one 12 months.

7. James Harris – 12 months

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The FA had 'necessary issues the tip outcomes of the match would possibly want been mounted' when it emerged Jay Harris and 4 of his Accrington Stanley team-mates had guess they'd lose in a sport within the path of Bury in 2009. Harris acquired primarily in all probability probably the most extreme punishment as in contrast alongside together with his teammates, as he was the one participant to look all through the game.

David Mannix acquired ten months, Peter Cavanagh and Robert Williams eight, and Andrew Mangan acquired a five-month ban. The FA stopped in need of accusing anybody of match fixing.

6. Billy Cook – 12 months

In April 1915 a referee despatched off Oldham Athletic defender Billy Cook in a match within the path of Middlesbrough for persistent foul play. Cook, joyful he had accomplished nothing improper, refused to go away the sphere.

Consequently, the referee needed to abandon the sport with over half-hour remaining as Cook nonetheless refused to return to the locker room. The FA then suspended him from soccer for 12 months, aggravated that the sport needed to be deserted attributable to his actions.

5. Joey Barton – 13 months

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In April 2017, the FA banned Barton from collaborating in soccer for 18 months after he admitted betting-related costs. It later emerged that he had been discovered accountable of inserting 1,260 bets on soccer matches between 2006 and 2016, a few of which he took half in.

A number of months after his preliminary ban, he was decreased by 5 months on enchantment.

However, it is actually not the one extended suspension the sooner midfielder has acquired all via his occupation.

During instructing in 2007, Barton assaulted Manchester City team-mate Ousmane Dabo, leaving him unconscious with fairly just a few blows to the best. Dabo needed to go to hospital following the accidents, which included retinal detachment. Barton acquired a four-month suspended jail sentence and was charged with violent conduct by the FA, banned for six matches with an extra six-match ban suspended for 2 years.

Then all through the closing sport of the 2011/12 season within the path of Manchester City, whereas at QPR, Barton was despatched off for violent misconduct after elbowing Carlos Tevez all through the face. He instantly kicked Sergio Aguero all through the as soon as extra and tried to headbutt Vincent Kompany.

The FA subsequently issued a 12-game ban, punishing him for all three counts of violent conduct.

4. Chris Buckley – 17 months

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Despite signing a mannequin new contract with Aston Villa, nonetheless not receiving the £250 he believed was owed to him in 1912, Chris Buckley refused to play for the Villains at first of the 1912 season/ 13.

Villa claimed he was out of contract, suspended him indefinitely and reported him to the League. The League fee determined that Buckley's requires had been unlawful and suspended him till April 1914.

3. Bradley Wood - Six years

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The FA handed former Lincoln right-back Bradley Wood a six-year ban in April 2018, after a courtroom discovered he was intentionally booked in the midst of the Imps' FA Cup wins over Ipswich Town and Burnley in the midst of the 2016/17 season.

Suspicions had been raised when the potential winnings totaled spherical £10,000. Seven individuals guess on him to be warned, two of whom had been shut mates and the others mates of these. Wood denied the costs, nonetheless admitted to 23 completely completely different betting misdemeanors.

The FA banned him for 5 years for deliberate bookings, and an extra 12 months for offenses he admitted. The 31-year-old will probably be capable of return to soccer in March 2024.

2. Enoch West - 30 years

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In 1915, West, three completely completely different Manchester United avid avid gamers and 4 Liverpool footballers had been banned for all events for match-fixing. The completely completely different seven avid avid gamers had their bans lifted as quickly as they enlisted all through the navy for World War I, in addition to West.

Refusing to enlist, his ban lasted 30 years till 1945, when he turned 59.

1. Olafur Gottskalksson - Lifetime ban

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In January 2005 doping testers arrived at Torquay United's flooring, Plainmoor, for routine participant testing. Goalkeeper Olafur Gottskalksson was chosen to present a pattern, nonetheless disappeared shortly after figuring out his cocaine habits would present up all through the outcomes.

Torquay United have launched an announcement saying the 10-time Iceland worldwide is lacking. He later revealed that he had been to Amsterdam.

"It's actually a disgrace, I noticed nothing else all through the state of affairs nonetheless to let myself go," Gottskalksson talked about later. "I went to the Netherlands. I merely obtained on the subsequent aircraft to Amsterdam and was there for per week, 10 days in full oblivion.

"I used to be reported lacking all through the papers correct proper right here at dwelling and did not uncover what I used to be doing to individuals correct proper right here at dwelling. You solely take heed to your personal bulls**t."

In June 2005, the FA launched that an unbiased disciplinary committee had banned Gottskalksson from soccer indefinitely for failing to cross this drug try. Now 55, he hasn't carried out soccer since.

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