Marler gets two-game ban
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ENGLAND prop Joe Marler was banned for two matches on Tuesday and ordered by rugby’s governing body to pay 20,000 pounds (US$28,300) to an equality charity for using a racial slur toward an opponent during a Six Nations match.
World Rugby charged Marler with misconduct retrospectively after both England’s Rugby Football Union and Six Nations Rugby took no further action against him for calling Wales prop Samson Lee a “Gypsy boy” in England’s 25-21 win on March 12. A three-man judicial committee in London said Marler’s remark was “unsporting and discriminatory”, and brought the game into disrepute. Marler accepted the charge and said he would abide by any World Rugby sanction. He apologized to Lee during halftime of the game. The ban covers two games for Marler’s English club, Harlequins, and he is free to play again on April 18.
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