{"id":845,"date":"2025-12-05T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:11:25","slug":"hannibal-mejbri-burnley-midfielder-given-four-match-ban-and-15000-fine-for-spitting-at-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Hannibal Mejbri: Burnley midfielder given four-match ban and \u00a315,000 fine for spitting at fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Burnley midfielder Hannibal Mejbri has been handed a four-match ban and given a \u00a315,000 fine after spitting at Leeds United fans in October.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mejbri, 22, admitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cd7rwy9w8ryo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the misconduct charge<\/a> from the Football Association and will not be able to return until his club&#8217;s Premier League home match against Newcastle United on 30 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident occurred in the 67th minute of Burnley&#8217;s 2-0 win over Leeds on 18 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvg7e5pl8j1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">looked into the matter<\/a> after a complaint was made by a Leeds fan in the away section of the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In announcing Mejbri&#8217;s sanction, an FA statement said: &#8220;It was alleged that the player acted in breach of the laws of the game and\/or in an improper manner and\/or used abusive and\/or indecent behaviour by spitting at or in the direction of Leeds United supporters around the 67th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hannibal Mejbri subsequently admitted the charge, and the Regulatory Commission imposed a four-match ban and \u00a315,000 fine following a hearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cq5q3jdn6w4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnley midfielder Hannibal Me&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}