2023-08-23 02:23:22
The captain of the England rugby team, Owen Farrell, was suspended this Tuesday for four dates by World Rugby and will not play in the debut of the 2023 World Cup in France against Los Pumas. In addition, the back will be excluded to face his partner from Japan, for the second date.
Farrell was sent off in the match that 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 a yellow card to be changed into a red card without the match being interrupted, since the match referee’s warning can be changed by the referees in charge of revoking the ruling.
World Rugby appealed the decision of the Disciplinary Committee that 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 should not be sanctioned. World Rugby filed an appeal against the Committee’s decision to downgrade the red card to yellow, requesting that the red card be maintained. The Appeals Committee met on Tuesday 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 was not present in the defeat of England last Saturday against Ireland (10-29) and will not be in the next friendly against Fiji next Saturday. Finally, the sanction imposed will be fulfilled with the two World Cup matches between England and Argentina (9/9) and Fiji (9/17).
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