A spokesperson for refereeing physique PGMOL added: “We’re providing our full help to the referee following an alleged discriminatory remark directed in the direction of him throughout the Nationwide League match between Solihull Moors and Boston United.
“The referee will submit his match report and we’ll work carefully with the FA on this extraordinarily vital and regarding matter.”
Play was halted for round 20 minutes, with the rating at 0-0, earlier than the groups re-emerged to complete the match. Boston scored thrice within the closing 23 minutes to win 3-0.
Solihull Moors supervisor Chris Millington’s post-match interview implied it was one in all his group’s gamers who had been accused of creating the remark.
Talking to the membership’s social media, he stated: “There’s been an accusation made in opposition to a participant who is not ever going to be responsible of that sort of behaviour, and who positively is not based mostly on the burden of proof provided by our gamers and the opposition gamers, who all inform a really totally different story to the one which the referee believed to be true.”
Boston boss Paul Hurst, in the meantime, additionally urged the incident could have been a case of a comment being misheard.
“The assistant has heard [a player] say a phrase and I believe he has provide you with the fallacious phrase,” Hurst informed the Non-League Paper. “I do not consider that was stated and that is from quite a few individuals on the market.”
