Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford is facing a ban.
The fallout from Leeds United’s bizarre clash with Aston Villa continues, as striker Patrick Bamford is now facing a ban for simulation.
Leeds’ home game with Villa was billed as a big game, but Leeds’ automatic promotion hopes were over and Villa had already secured a playoff spot.
That made the game a little underwhelming until the latter stages, when all hell broke lose after a challenge from Liam Cooper on Villa striker Jonathan Kodjia.
As Kodjia lay injured, Leeds seemed to be playing the ball out of play, but instead went forward to score through Mateusz Klich in a hugely controversial goal.
In the ensuing melee, Villa winger Anwar El Ghazi was sent off for allegedly striking Leeds hitman Bamford, though footage quickly showed there was no contact.
That incident added even more drama, and has been discussed just as much as Marcelo Bielsa’s decision to allow Villa to score an equaliser from kick off through Albert Adomah.
El Ghazi has had any suspension rescinded, meaning he will be available for the playoffs, but Bamford has been charged with ‘successful deception of a match official’, and could face a two- game ban.
That description has not gone down well with pundit, former Villa striker and boyhood Villa fan Stan Collymore, who has taken to Twitter to suggest that the terms are ‘fluffy’, when Bamford should be embarrassed by his actions by being branded as a cheat instead.
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