{"id":1667,"date":"2014-02-10T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2014-02-10T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:39:02","slug":"chelsea-manager-tell-fa-to-ban-manchester-citys-yahaya-toure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/chelsea-manager-tell-fa-to-ban-manchester-citys-yahaya-toure\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Manager Tells FA To Ban Manchester City&#8217;s Yahaya Toure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho seems to derive pleasure in attacking tittle rivals Manchester City as he is calling on the English football governing body to ban City&#8217;s Ivory Coast midfielder Yahaya Toure following an incident during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"description\">The incident happened during City&#8217;s visit to Joseph Yobo&#8217;s new club Norwich on Saturday when Toure appeared to kick Ricky van Wolfswinkel during the Premier League encounter.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"description\">A visibly upset Mourinho said during an interview that the FA would be sending a wrong message if the Manchester City player is not punished.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"description\">&#8220;If he is not suspended the message is clear &#8211; you can do what you want,&#8221; said Mourinho. &#8220;If the FA defends football he has to be suspended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"description\">Meanwhile, the Football Association has not received referee John Moss&#8217;s match report.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"description\">If found guilty, Toure could face a three-match ban for the incident.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"description\">The game ended 0-0 at Carrow Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho seems to derive pleasure in attacking tittle rivals Manchester City as he is calling on the English football governing body to ban City&#8217;s Ivory Coast midfielder Yahaya Toure following an incident during the weekend. The incident happened during City&#8217;s visit to Joseph Yobo&#8217;s new club Norwich on Saturday when Toure appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}