FA: Spitting Manchester United star Jonny Evans 'simply disgusting'

THE Football Association have ruled that Jonny Evans' spitting antics with Papiss Cisse during Manchester United's clash against Newcastle were 'simply disgusting'.

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Jonny Evans and Papiss Cisse have both received lengthy bans for their actions

The Northern Ireland international and Cisse were both charged following the Red Devils' 1-0 win at St James' Park on March 4 after spitting at each other, with referee Anthony Taylor missing the incident.

The Senegalese striker and Evans received seven and six-match bans respectively for their actions, and in a written statement, the FA explained why they found the United defender guilty despite his pleas of innocence.

It read: "It is clear that Mr Evans is looking directly and indeed aggressively at Mr Cisse. His lips are 'pursed' and he is close to Mr Cisse.

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The video clips clearly show that he failed in his duty of care

FA statement

"If he was, as alleged to be the case, a person who 'habitually spits', the commission were concerned as to why he did not turn his head away from Mr Cisse when so spitting.

"If that had been a family member or indeed another team member or his manager in front and below him would he still have carried out the same manoeuvre?

"Mr Evans had (and has) a duty of care, if spitting for whatever reason, not to direct the same in the general direction of an opponent, or indeed anyone else. The video clips clearly show that he failed in his duty of care.

"There may, in some quarters, be substantial sympathy for Mr Evans, but the video evidence shows that he did what he did, and the ordinary man in the street will find his action to be simply disgusting and should not be allowed in any walk of life, let alone on any football field."

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