The Football Association has slammed Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi with a three-match ban.
The FA said: 'Chelsea's John Obi Mikle has been given a three-match suspension to begin with immediate effect and fined £60,000 following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing today [Thursday 6 December 2012].'
The midfielder breached FA Rule E3 after Chelsea's fixture against Manchester United on 28 October 2012.
The Nigerian star confronted the match official in his changing room at the end of the game.
The midfielder had requested a personal hearing after admitting an FA charge of using threatening and/or abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour.
The Regulatory Commission's independent chairman Christopher Quinlan QC emphasised that the Independent Regulatory Commission accepted, as did The FA, that at the time he threatened the referee the player genuinely believed that the referee had racially abused him.
But for that factor the suspension would have been significantly longer.
Subsequently The FA investigated the allegation that referee Clattenburg racially abused the player and found that there was not a case for him to answer.
Dec. 7, 2012.
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