Manchester City's Benjamin Mendy (left) and Bernardo Silva also played together at MonacoManchester City's Bernardo Silva has been banned for one match and fined £50,000 after an FA commission accepted he "did not intend" a tweet about team-mate Benjamin Mendy to be "racist". Silva compared Mendy to the character on a packet of Conguitos - a chocolate brand available in Spain and Portugal. "The post was on a social media platform exposed to the 600,000 followers of a high-profile and well-respected professional footballer. In addition, as Mendy evidently treated the social media post as a joke, the club feel the punishment does not fit the crime. It has also been pointed out that as recently as May, Leicester's Hamza Choudhury was only fined £5,000 for historical posts on social media that had a racial element.

Source: BBC November 13, 2019 14:07 UTC