{"id":77168,"date":"2014-11-28T19:14:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=77168"},"modified":"2014-11-28T19:14:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:14:27","slug":"rfu-bans-two-supporters-accused-directing-homophobic-abuse-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/rfu-bans-two-supporters-accused-directing-homophobic-abuse-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"RFU bans two supporters accused of directing homophobic abuse at referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The referee Nigel Owens, right, is drenched as the heavens open during England\u2019s defeat against New Zealand. Photograph: Hugh Routledge\/Rex<\/p>\n<p>The Rugby Football Union has issued two-year Twickenham bans to two men accused of directing homophobic abuse at the referee Nigel Owens, the governing body has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The RFU launched an investigation into allegations of offensive language used against Owens, who is openly gay, made by a spectator who attended England\u2019s 24-21 defeat by New Zealand this month.<\/p>\n<p>The two supporters are banned from attending all matches at Twickenham for two years and will also pay \u00a31,000 each to a charity of Owens\u2019 choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The referee Nigel Owens, right, is drenched as the heavens open during England\u2019s defeat against New Zealand. Photograph: Hugh Routledge\/Rex The Rugby Football Union has issued two-year Twickenham bans to two men accused of directing homophobic abuse at the referee Nigel Owens, the governing body has announced. The RFU launched an investigation into allegations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15541,15538,6502,15537,15539,15540,5749,4419,15096,3877,6909],"class_list":["post-77168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-abuse","tag-accused","tag-at","tag-bans","tag-directing","tag-homophobic","tag-of","tag-referee","tag-rfu","tag-supporters","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77171,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77168\/revisions\/77171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}