{"id":27704,"date":"2025-04-25T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sam-finley-tranmere-rovers-player-gets-13-game-ban-for-homophobic-slur\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:39:19","slug":"sam-finley-tranmere-rovers-player-gets-13-game-ban-for-homophobic-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sam-finley-tranmere-rovers-player-gets-13-game-ban-for-homophobic-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Finley: Tranmere Rovers player gets 13-game ban for homophobic slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tranmere Rovers midfielder Sam Finley has been handed a 13-game ban for making a homophobic comment to an opposition player.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The midfielder, 32, admitted a Football Association charge of misconduct over a comment made to Walsall striker Jamille Matt during a League Two game in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finley has also been fined \u00a32,000 and ordered to complete an education programme following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cm2ekkpkjgxo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tranmere Rovers midfielder Sam Finley has been handed a 13-game ban for making a homophobic comment to an opposition player. The midfielder, 32, admitted a Football Association charge of misconduct over a comment made to Walsall striker Jamille Matt during a League Two game in January. Finley has also been fined \u00a32,000 and ordered to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[9735,546,9732,9736,2419,9734,945,9737,9733],"class_list":["post-27704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-13game","tag-ban","tag-finley","tag-homophobic","tag-player","tag-rovers","tag-sam","tag-slur","tag-tranmere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27706,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704\/revisions\/27706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}