Another FA disciplinary panel has come under fire after a referees’ observer was banned for just 20 weeks for a string of racist and sexist remarks - at a Show Racism The Red Card session.
With just two non-white referees in the professional game, John Davies, a current member of the FA Refereeing team responsible for refereeing observations, allegedly stunned colleagues during a session on anti-discrimination by saying: “I didn’t see any issues with the slave trade” and using the word “coloured” repeatedly.
He is the THIRD FA observer in a year to have been punished for using racially offensive language.
