Barnet’s manager, Dean Brennan, could be banned for six matches after becoming the first EFL manager to be charged by the Football Association with making sexist comments towards a referee. Brennan has been charged with an aggravated breach of FA rule E3.1 for offensive remarks allegedly made to Kirsty Dowle during Barnet’s League Two defeat against Shrewsbury in September.
Brennan was sent off by Dowle for dissent midway through the first half, which is understood to have triggered an angry response from the manager. Dowle noted Brennan’s comments in her post-match report, triggering an FA investigation, which has concluded with the charge.
