{"id":9756,"date":"2026-03-05T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9756"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:58:51","slug":"man-utd-jack-fletcher-banned-for-six-matches-for-homophobic-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9756","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd: Jack Fletcher banned for six matches for homophobic slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its written reasons, the FA said Fletcher made his comment to an opponent who had made remarks about him and his family throughout the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fletcher&#8217;s twin brother, Tyler, was also playing, while Darren was in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fletcher, who made his Premier League debut against Aston Villa in December and has made three appearances for United&#8217;s first team, told the FA he had been thrown to the floor and his Achilles had been stamped on by the same opponent earlier in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United said they have been working with Fletcher to &#8220;strengthen his understanding of discriminatory language and why it is harmful&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said he will continue to take part in club diversity programmes in addition to the training he has been told to do by the FA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United&#8217;s official LGBTQ+ fans group Rainbow Devils said it welcomed Fletcher&#8217;s apology and that &#8220;homophobic language has no place in football or society regardless of intention or connotation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Words matter and words hurt,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its written reasons, the FA said Fletcher made his comment to an opponent who had made remarks about him and his family throughout the match. Fletcher&#8217;s twin brother, Tyler, was also playing, while Darren was in the crowd. Fletcher, who made his Premier League debut against Aston Villa in December and has made three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}