Dele Alli to miss Spurs game at home to Manchester United

Tottenham’s Dele Alli has been given a one-match suspension and fined £50,000 for an offensive social media post, the Football Association has announced.
Alli posted a video on Snapchat in early February, before the pandemic took hold in the UK, making fun of an Asian man in an airport before promptly deleting the post and apologising.

He will miss Tottenham’s game at home to Manchester United a week on Friday and must also attend a face-to-face education course.

An FA statement said: “The Tottenham Hotspur FC player denied that a social media post breached FA Rule E3(1), as it was insulting and/or improper and/or brought the game into disrepute, and constituted an ‘Aggravated Breach’, which is defined in FA Rule E3(2), as it included a reference, whether express or implied, to race and/or colour and/or ethnic origin and/or nationality. However, it was subsequently found proven by an independent Regulatory Commission.”