Berliner Tageblatt - Wasps' Umaga gets four-game ban for Toulouse red card

NYSE - LSE
BCC 3.88% 142.595 $
CMSD 0.12% 25.01 $
BCE -0.42% 35.46 $
RIO 3.57% 65.24 $
RBGPF 5.79% 60.5 $
NGG -2.09% 68.615 $
SCS -6.97% 13.19 $
CMSC -0.18% 25.01 $
RYCEF 5.35% 6.92 $
RELX 1.26% 47.975 $
JRI -0.41% 13.385 $
VOD -1.78% 10.051 $
GSK -1.16% 41.945 $
AZN 0.52% 78.99 $
BP 2.22% 33.165 $
BTI -0.76% 37.595 $
Wasps' Umaga gets four-game ban for Toulouse red card
Wasps' Umaga gets four-game ban for Toulouse red card / Photo: ©

Wasps' Umaga gets four-game ban for Toulouse red card

Jacob Umaga was banned for four weeks on Wednesday following his sending-off against Toulouse in a blow to Wasps' hopes of advancing to the knockout stages of the European Champions Cup.

Text size:

Umaga, who plays at fly-half as well as full-back, saw red for the second time in successive matches following a dangerous tackle on scrum-half Martin Page Relo in the first half of the match on Saturday.

Wasps still beat five-times champions and reigning title-holders Toulouse 30-22 in Coventry.

An independent disciplinary hearing ruled that Umaga, capped once by England, had made contact with Relo's head and banned the 23-year-old nephew of former All Blacks captain Tana Umaga for four games, starting with Sunday's match away to Irish giants Munster.

London Irish hooker Agustin Creevy, Argentina's record cap-holder, has been suspended for three weeks for striking with the head in Saturday's Challenge Cup win over Edinburgh.

J.Horn--BTB