England rugby union captain Owen Farrel He was suspended for four dates by World Rugby and will not play in the debut of the World Cup France 2023 against Los Pumas and, in addition, he will be excluded to face his pair from Japan, for the second date.
farrell He was sent off in the match in which the “Rosa” team defeated Wales (19-17). In the first instance he was booked for a dangerous tackle on traine basham.
Despite this, the new bunker rule that allows changing a yellow card into a red card without the match being interrupted, since the match referee’s warning can be modified by the referees in charge of revoking the ruling.
The world rugby He appealed the ruling of the Disciplinary Committee, which at first had decided to only admonish him and finally the English player was sanctioned with four games.
At an initial Disciplinary Committee hearing, it was decided that farrell was not penalized. The world rugby filed an appeal against the Committee’s decision to downgrade the red card to yellow, requesting that the red card be kept.
The Appeals Committee met and unanimously determined, at the original hearing, that the Disciplinary Committee should have considered the player’s attempt to involve his opponent in the tackle, as this point did not appear in the original decision.
Consequently, the Appeals Committee considered that the Disciplinary Committee’s decision to downgrade the red card to yellow had been wrong, leading to the appeal by World Rugby and the confirmation of the red card.
In this way, the Committee applied World Rugby’s mandatory minimum entry point for foul play that results in hitting an opponent with the head (six matches), but after the player accepted the illegal play, the sanction was lowered. to four meetings.
Consequently, farrell He was not present in England’s defeat last Saturday against Ireland (10-29) and he will not be in the next friendly against Fiji on Saturday.
Finally, the sanction imposed will be fulfilled with the two World Cup matches between England and Argentina (9/9) and Fiji (9/17.
Source: Ambito
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