{"id":177424,"date":"2025-12-06T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177424\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:18:07","slug":"littlejohn-handed-five-game-ban-for-violent-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177424\/","title":{"rendered":"Littlejohn handed five-game ban for violent conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republic of Ireland international midfielder Ruesha Littlejohn has been handed a five-match ban after being sent off for for grappling with Leicester&#8217;s Hannah Cain.<\/p>\n<p>The Crystal Palace player was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/1125\/1545785-littlejohn-waits-to-learn-punishment-after-seeing-red\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shown a straight red card<\/a> following the incident during the second half of their side&#8217;s 3-0 win in their Women\u2019s League Cup tie on 23 November.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old received a straight red card for grabbing Cain in a headlock and wrestling her opponent to the ground, which led to other players becoming involved in pushing and shoving at Meadow Lane.<\/p>\n<p>While the standard punishment for violent conduct is a three-match suspension, the FA claimed the incident warranted a longer sanction, which the player contested.<\/p>\n<p>However, an independent regulatory commission upheld the claim, set aside the standard punishment and imposed the five-match suspension following a hearing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/1128\/1546361-ward-hits-out-at-disgraceful-abuse-of-littlejohn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to the media last week<\/a>, Littlejohn said that while she hadn&#8217;t contacted Cain in the aftermath, she acknowledged her over-the-top reaction during the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I regret letting my emotions spill over on the pitch,&#8221; she told RT\u00c9 Sport. &#8220;I&#8217;m probably quite an emotional person and player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gutted that that spilled into the game. That&#8217;s not who I want to be on the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland international midfielder Ruesha Littlejohn has been handed a five-match ban after being sent off for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-177424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}