The Football Association (FA) has reportedly suspended Queens Park Rangers (QPR) defender Rio Ferdinand for three matches and fined him 25,000 pounds for comments he made on Twitter.
The FA has also severely warned the former England captain as to his future conduct and told him to attend an education programme arranged by them. It is believed that the misconduct charge related to a comment where Ferdinand used the word ‘sket’.
The term ‘sket’ is defined as ‘a promiscuous girl or woman’. QPR manager Harry Redknapp said that he had no inkling that his centre-back would be served with a three-match ban, The BBC reported.
Redknapp said that he would be meeting with club chief executive Philip Beard on Thursday to discuss whether the club plans to appeal.
On 1 September, Ferdinand wrote the tweet thought to have led to the charge in reply to a message sent to him suggesting his team needed a new centre-half. He was tagged in a message that said that maybe QPR would sign a good centre back as they need one.
The defender wrote back, ‘get ya mum in, plays the field well son! #sket’. ‘Sket is a Jamaican slang word.
Ferdinand, who made the last of his 81 appearances for England in June 2011, is a member of FA chairman Greg Dyke’s commission looking at how to improve English football.
The former Manchester United centre-back has sent more than 14,000 tweets since joining the social networking site in 2010, the report added.
—-ANI