{"id":300854,"date":"2025-12-05T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300854\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:18:07","slug":"hannibal-mejbri-burnley-midfielder-given-four-match-ban-and-15000-fine-for-spitting-at-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300854\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannibal Mejbri: Burnley midfielder given four-match ban and \u00a315,000 fine for spitting at fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mejbri, 22, admitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cd7rwy9w8ryo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvg7e5pl8j1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burnley midfielder Hannibal Mejbri has been handed a four-match ban and given a \u00a315,000 fine after spitting at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-300854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}