{"id":278341,"date":"2016-12-20T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=278341"},"modified":"2016-12-20T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T18:31:45","slug":"jamie-vardys-red-card-appeal-rejected-by-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=278341","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Vardy&#8217;s red card appeal rejected by FA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester striker Jamie Vardy will miss three matches after an appeal against his red card in Saturday&#8217;s 2-2 draw with Stoke City was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old&#8217;s wrongful dismissal claim was rejected by the Football Association and he misses games against Everton, West Ham and Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n<p>The England forward was sent off by referee Craig Pawson in the 28th minute for a tackle on Stoke&#8217;s Mame Diouf.<\/p>\n<p>Vardy made a two-footed tackle, won the ball, but clipped Diouf&#8217;s shins.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri said: &#8220;He wants to challenge and get the ball, not make a foul. He touched the ball. Maybe it was yellow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vardy misses Leicester&#8217;s next three Premier League games over the festive period, but will be available for their FA Cup third-round tie at Everton on 7 January.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester striker Jamie Vardy will miss three matches after an appeal against his red card in Saturday&#8217;s 2-2 draw with Stoke City was rejected. The 29-year-old&#8217;s wrongful dismissal claim was rejected by the Football Association and he misses games against Everton, West Ham and Middlesbrough. The England forward was sent off by referee Craig Pawson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":278342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[564,13988,12975],"class_list":["post-278341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-citi-sports","tag-fa","tag-jamie-vardy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}