{"id":464512,"date":"2026-03-08T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/464512\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:34:09","slug":"newcastle-told-to-issue-immediate-bans-as-footage-from-man-city-defeat-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/464512\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle told to issue ‘immediate bans’ as footage from Man City defeat emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newcastle have been urged to issue ‘immediate bans’ after footage prior to the Magpies’ 3-1 FA Cup defeat to Manchester City went viral on social media.<\/p>\n

Despite going 1-0 up through Harvey Barnes, Newcastle <\/a>were dumped out of another cup competition by City <\/a>after a strike from Savinho and a brilliant brace from Omar Marmoush, who has scored half of his goals in English football against the North East outfit.<\/p>\n

And while St James’ Park is deemed to be one of the best stadiums in England for its atmosphere, some pre-match scenes at the ground caused uproar on social media.<\/p>\n

City new boy Antoine Semenyo, a substitute for the fifth round clash, was filmed signing autographs ahead of the 8pm kick-off.<\/p>\n

But with City’s near-5000 strong travelling party in the top tier, Semenyo was actually signing and taking autographs with those in the home section pitchside.<\/p>\n

\"SemenyoSemenyo signed for home fans at St James’ Park. Image: Getty<\/p>\n

One individual even had a sky blue City shirt for Semenyo to sign. The video on amassed one million views on the official Emirates FA Cup page on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n

“But many fans on social media were stunned by what they were watching, particularly as Semenyo is a former Sunderland player – having played at Newcastle’s rivals on loan in 2020.<\/p>\n

In fact, plenty called for those in the video to be banned from attending games at St James’ Park in the future.<\/p>\n

One user on X wrote: “Can we please ban every single one of these people from @NUFC Where are their getting tickets from when I get none in the ballot?<\/p>\n

A second agreed and said: “@NUFC ban everyone who is in this video.”<\/p>\n

A third fumed: “That’s the home end of a Newcastle match and they’re standing there with City shirts for wanting a signature from a former Sunderland player.”<\/p>\n

A fourth demanded: “Lifelong ban from the stadium please #NUFC.”<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola hit with ban<\/p>\n

There is no word on whether the club will act on the requests from supporters but one man who will be serving a ban is City boss Pep Guardiola<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Catalan received his sixth yellow card of the season for confronting fourth official Lewis Smith after a foul on Jeremy Doku.<\/p>\n

Because of his yellow card tally, Guardiola is now required to serve a two-game touchline ban – which will see him miss the visit of West Ham United and the FA Cup quarter-final of the weekend of April 4 and 5.<\/p>\n

The suspension only applies to league and FA Cup games, meaning the Carabao Cup final against Arsenal at Wembley on March 22 is not impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle have been urged to issue ‘immediate bans’ after footage prior to the Magpies’ 3-1 FA Cup defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,399,941,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-464512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-manchester-city","tag-newcastle-united","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464512","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=464512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}