punishment

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In February this year, Young Boys had a suspended partial home stadium closure activated for the lighting of fireworks, with a new and more substantial ground punishment placing them on probation for another two years.

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Commitment could not be questioned here, but Spurs were undone by momentary lapses that always risk the ultimate punishment against PSG.

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But there several other examples of Fifa looking kindly upon players, reducing their ban from the mandatory punishment.

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The standard punishment for a red card for violent conduct is a three-match ban, but if the FA thinks that a dismissal offence is "truly exceptional" it can seek to increase the punishment.

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"I just feel like maybe my punishment was more than it needed to be," she says.

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