David Moyes has received a one-match touchline ban and been fined £8,000 by the Football Association after accepting a misconduct charge. It means the Sunderland manager will watch his struggling team’s Premier League game at Bournemouth on Saturday from the stands.
Moyes was charged last week after he was sent off in the closing minutes of Sunderland’s EFL Cup defeat at Southampton for swearing at the fourth official, James Adcock.
The Scot was outraged that the referee, Chris Kavanagh, had turned down his side’s appeals for a late penalty and dashed out of his technical area to protest before becoming further annoyed by Adcock’s attempt to turn him round.
Initially Moyes seemed in two minds as to whether he would accept the FA’s set sanction of a one-match touchline ban and an £8,000 fine, or plead his case for leniency before the ruling body and risk more severe punishment, namely a two-match ban and £12,000 fine.
Having resolved to accept the charge he will watch his bottom-placed team – who have only two points from their opening 10 fixtures; the worst start in Premier League history – attempt to win their first League game of the season from the posh seats at the Vitality Stadium but will be free to patrol the Stadium of Light technical area when Hull City visit Wearside in the subsequent fixture.
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