{"id":3606,"date":"2026-10-29T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/fa-rejects-arsenal-appeal-over-dowmans-three-match-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:03:21","slug":"fa-rejects-arsenal-appeal-over-dowmans-three-match-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/fa-rejects-arsenal-appeal-over-dowmans-three-match-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"FA rejects Arsenal appeal over Dowman\u2019s three-match ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52.083732057416\">\n<p>The Football Association has dismissed Arsenal\u2019s appeal against the sending-off of teenage midfielder Max Dowman and his subsequent three-match suspension.\n<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal disclosed this in a statement published on its website on Thursday, quoting the FA as saying an independent Regulatory Commission had rejected the club\u2019s claims of wrongful dismissal and excessive punishment.\n<\/p>\n<p>Dowman was sent off during Arsenal\u2019s EFL Cup match against Fleetwood Town on Tuesday, October 27, and will serve a three-match suspension.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn independent Regulatory Commission has dismissed claims of both wrongful dismissal and excessive punishment for Max Dowman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Arsenal player was sent off during their EFL Cup game against Fleetwood Town on Tuesday 27 October and will be suspended for three matches,\u201d the FA statement read. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The commission\u2019s written reasons for dismissing the claims will be published in due course, according to the FA.\n<\/p>\n<p>The teenager will now miss three domestic matches against Liverpool, Hull and Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>The club has not announced any further action following the ruling.\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#4d39252828292439223f0d3d38232e25232a632e2220\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"e2968a8787868b968d90a292978c818a8c85cc818d8f\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Football Association has dismissed Arsenal\u2019s appeal against the sending-off of teenage midfielder Max Dowman and his subsequent three-match suspension. Arsenal disclosed this in a statement published on its website&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}