Footballers who deliberately cough towards an opponent could receive a red card under new Covid-19 guidelines published by the English Football Association
The measures, published last week, apply to the restart of grassroots football in England amid the coronavirus pandemic. Visit CNN.com/sport for more news, videos and featuresPlayers can be sent off if the referee is"certain that someone deliberately, and from close range, coughed into the face of an opponent or match official," according to the guidelines, which will come into force immediately. 'use strict';CNN.Videx=CNN.Videx || {};CNN.Videx.mobile={};CNN.INJECTOR.
Germany's Bundesliga is the first major football league to come back in the pandemic 02:39"Given the current situation relating to Covid-19, if a player deliberately coughed in the face of another player, team official or match official, this could be deemed to fall within the Law 12 sending-off offense of 'using offense, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures,'" said a spokesperson from the International Football Association Board, the sport's law-making body.
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