{"id":34284,"date":"2016-10-25T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T07:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=34284"},"modified":"2016-10-25T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T07:28:28","slug":"epac-fc-player-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/10\/25\/epac-fc-player-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Epac FC player suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super League of Malawi (Sulom) has slapped Epac FC attacker, Kelvin Thotho, with a six-game ban for displaying an unsporting behaviour during a goal-less draw against Silver Strikers last week in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>The player confronted referee, Esther Zimba, snatched a yellow card from her to eventually earn a red card.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifa Disciplinary Code suspends your player for further four matches in addition to the red card, making it a total of a six-match suspension,\u201d reads part of the statement signed by Sulom Vice-General Secretary, Thokozani Chazema and addressed to Epac.<\/p>\n<p>Epac\u2019s General Secretary, Chiyamiko Lita, said the player was likely to face disciplinary action from the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very unfortunate for the player, but good for football. We will also take action on him because his behaviour cost us the game,\u201d Lita said.<\/p>\n<p>Thotho reserved his comment on the punishment, saying he was waiting for communication on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Thotho, who scores important goals for the Lilongwe club, might miss the rest of the season as Epac have seven games to wind up the season.<\/p>\n<p>Epac are on position 10 with 30 points from 23 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super League of Malawi (Sulom) has slapped Epac FC attacker, Kelvin Thotho, with a six-game ban for displaying an unsporting behaviour during a goal-less draw against Silver Strikers last week in Lilongwe. The player confronted referee, Esther Zimba, snatched a yellow card from her to eventually earn a red card. \u201cFifa Disciplinary Code suspends your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34289,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34284\/revisions\/34289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}