Leeds United defender Liam Cooper will serve a six match ban.
Leeds United’s Liam Cooper
Leeds United defender, Liam Cooper, has been handed a six-match ban by the FA, as confirmed by the Football Association on their official website.
Cooper will serve the punishment with immediate effect, following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing.
He was charged with violent conduct after Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Reading.
Cooper appeared to have stamped on the head of Reece Oxford, on loan from West Ham, in the 74th minute of the match.
The incident went unpunished as the match referee, Keith Stroud, couldn’t spot it at the time. However, after seeing video footages, the 25-year-old has been found guilty of misconduct and now will have to face a lengthy ban.
The FA claimed that standard punishment for the misconduct would have been clearly insufficient in his case.
He receives a total suspension of six matches and that includes the standard one match ban for it was his second dismissal this season.
The lengthy ban means Cooper will return for Leeds in their last game of the season against Wigan.
Football fans took to social networking site, Twitter, to express their opinion. Here are some of the tweets:
Leeds’ Liam Cooper has a header saved by Cambridge United’s Will Norris
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