UEFA probes handling of Toure incident at CSKA
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UEFA President Michel Platini yesterday ordered an investigation after a Champions League referee failed to follow guidelines and stop a match to warn Russian fans about racist abuse.
UEFA said its protocol for match officials to handle racism incidents “was not applied” during the CSKA Moscow-Manchester City match on Wednesday.
“This protocol empowers the referee to stop the match and ask for a public address system announcement to be made urging spectators to stop such racist conduct,” UEFA said in a statement.
Platini’s request puts 33-year-old Romanian referee Ovidiu Hategan under scrutiny as well as the Russian club.
UEFA has opened a disciplinary case against CSKA, prompted by complaints by City and midfielder Yaya Toure, who is black. Toure said he told Hategan during play about monkey noises being targeted at City’s black players by home fans.
Hategan did not stop play and ask stadium officials to broadcast a warning, the first step of UEFA’s guidelines to deal with racist abuse in stadiums.
If abuse continues, the second step in UEFA’s protocol empowers referees to suspend a match and take teams off the pitch. The third step is abandoning the match.
UEFA said it will publish its investigation findings after the disciplinary case next Wednesday.
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