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FA Official Gets Short Ban After Telling Female Ref Her Place Is In The Kitchen

Mark Farrelly
By Mark Farrelly
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Today in misogyny: a county FA official across the pond has been handed a four suspension for telling a would-be female referee that 'a woman's place is in the kitchen and not on a football field.'

Lucy May, a referee development officer, inquired to Northumberland County FA vice president John Cummings about the possibility of taking charge of a match in the North East Sunday League. As if his cliched kitchen response wasn't enough, Cummings added 'you wouldn't be able to handle it.'

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He then made sure he'd ticked all the sexist boxes possible by telling her:

It's nothing against you personally but all the time I'm alive, a woman will never referee in my league.

A commission, headed by former Blackburn player turned solicitor, Stuart Ripley, found Cummings guilty of breaching FA rule relating to 'abusive and/or insulting language.' They decided that his remarks were worthy of a four month ban, a £250 and attendance at an education programme.

Cummings could appeal the band with BBC Sport revealing that he thinks he should get a more lenient ban for what he claims were comments made in jest. Well, that is, after he denied making the comments in the first place.

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