I've had a number of other non-sports issues come up today, so hopefully I can reduce stress by catching up on a story I've been following a bit.
A number of the first-knockout-phase Champions' League and Europa League matches were marred by incident - and March 19 was the date for a hearing on a number of the more egregious counts.
New incident: Dynamo Kiev has been charged again, this time for racist conduct (again) in a match where they were partially-closed-doored for conduct in their home match in the Round of 32 -- this one was their home match in the Round of 16.
Be interesting to see if they are allowed to continue, and under what conditions. That hearing is March 26th.
New incident: Barcelona, illicit banner in their home match. That one will go all the way to May for their hearing.
Decisions:
The direct red card for Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris St. Germain) will only cost him one match instead of the standard three.
Serge Aurier (Paris St. Germain) will sit THREE matches for insulting comments on social media.
(You'd think, in this day and age, most organized sports teams would just ban their players off of social media and be done with it...)
No word from UEFA on Feyenoord, Celtic, Bayer Leverkusen, or Dinamo Moskva.
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