(Reuters) – Former Birmingham City assistant supervisor Marcus Bignot has been handed a seven-game touchline ban for making homophobic comments about Tottenham Hotspur coach Rehanne Skinner throughout a Women’s Super League (WSL) match in February, the Football Association (FA) stated on Thursday.
The FA charged Bignot with “misconduct” and “aggravated breach” because of the homophobic nature of the comments in March however he denied the fees.
An impartial fee confirmed the FA’s preliminary expenses and ordered a compulsory face-to-face schooling programme on prime of the touchline ban, including the fees couldn’t be mitigated as Bignot had beforehand denied any wrongdoing.
“He has been discovered to have made a remark which was clearly homophobic and wholly unacceptable. It is especially vital that homophobic remark, the sort made by Mr Bignot, is punished severely,” the fee stated in an announcement.
The fee was knowledgeable that Bignot had misplaced his job at Birmingham and likewise at Guiseley AFC because of the expenses whereas his teaching position at England U-19 was suspended pending the end result of the case.
(Reporting by Silvia Recchimuzzi in Gdansk; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
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