Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts has been banned for six matches for his challenge on Crystal Palace’s Jean-Philippe Mateta, after an independent regulatory commission upheld the Football Association’s claim that the usual three-game ban would be an insufficient punishment.
Mateta was left with 25 stitches in his ear as a result of the challenge from Roberts, which saw the goalkeeper sent off and the Crystal Palace chairman, Steve Parish, calling it “the most reckless challenge I’ve ever seen”. The French forward has been discharged from hospital and is “doing well” while recovering at home, according to his manager Oliver Glasner.
