New FA policy on bans for bad tackles

THE FA has announced that disciplinary chiefs will be able to take into account the severity of injuries caused by fouls when dealing with red card offences from now on.

Bans can now be increased – or reduced – by the regulatory commissions who will “take account of a number of important specified factors including intent, force and injury’’.

The change follows a number of serious injuries suffered by players in recent seasons where the perpetrators were red-carded and received a standard three-match ban.