A spokesperson for refereeing physique PGMOL added: “We’re providing our full assist to the referee following an alleged discriminatory remark directed in the direction of him in the course of the Nationwide League match between Solihull Moors and Boston United.
“The referee will submit his match report and we are going to work carefully with the FA on this extraordinarily necessary 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 last 23 minutes to win 3-0.
Solihull Moors supervisor Chris Millington’s post-match interview implied it was one among his staff’s gamers who had been accused of creating the remark.
Chatting with the membership’s social media, he mentioned: “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 undoubtedly is not based mostly on the load of proof equipped by our gamers and the opposition gamers, who all inform a really completely 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 feel he has provide you with the unsuitable phrase,” Hurst advised the Non-League Paper. “I do not imagine that was mentioned and that is from quite a few folks on the market.”
