Leeds’ Jordan Stevens has been banned from all football-related activity for six weeks for breaking Football Association betting rules, a punishment his club has called “disproportionate”.
The midfielder, 19, admitted a charge of placing 59 bets last season, five on matches involving the Whites.
Stevens will be suspended until 10 October and has also been fined £1,200.
“We are hugely disappointed in the FA’s choice of sanction,” said Leeds chief executive Angus Kinnear. Read more