{"id":12800,"date":"2024-01-26T01:09:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/leicester-tigers-womens-coach-luke-stratford-banned-for-seven-weeks-for-verbal-abuse\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:09:06","slug":"leicester-tigers-womens-coach-luke-stratford-banned-for-seven-weeks-for-verbal-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/leicester-tigers-womens-coach-luke-stratford-banned-for-seven-weeks-for-verbal-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester Tigers women’s coach Luke Stratford banned for seven weeks for verbal abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Leicester Tigers are bottom of the Women’s Premiership Rugby table with just one win from eight games in their first top-flight season so far<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leicester Tigers forwards coach Luke Stratford has been suspended for seven weeks for verbally abusing a match official during their Women’s Premiership Rugby defeat by Bristol.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He was cited for using an expletive and calling fourth official Adam White “a joke” during the match on 13 January. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A disciplinary panel found him guilty of “conduct prejudicial to the interests of the game”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sanctions for abuse of match officials has recently <\/span>been increased in England.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Rugby Football Union said the seven-week suspension followed their decision to give players and coaches longer bans for such behaviour at all levels of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stratford is said to have acknowledged official White’s report on the incident and “fully accepted” his behaviour was “inappropriate and unacceptable”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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