{"id":402166,"date":"2011-04-27T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/27\/nigerias-taiwo-faces-hearing\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T15:00:26","slug":"nigerias-taiwo-faces-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/nigerias-taiwo-faces-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Taiwo faces hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/09fe84c5celebbdygty.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Nigeria and Marseille defender Taye Taiwo\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Taye Taiwo says that Marseille can win the French league<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Nigeria defender Taye Taiwo faces a French League (LFP) disciplinary hearing on 5 May for using foul language after a match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taiwo could be suspended if found guilty, while his team-mate Stephane Mbia of Cameroon has also been summoned to the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian chanted an anti-Paris St Germain song containing an expletive after their League Cup final win last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwo scored Marseille&#8217;s goal in their 1-0 defeat of Montpellier at the Stade de France.<\/p>\n<p>After the team were presented with the trophy, he took a microphone and sang, along with fans, a song aimed at arch-rivals PSG.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian defender Taiwo said on Sunday that he was sorry for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to apologise for what I have sung at the Stade de France,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All my team mates told me it was not a good thing to do and that it hurt their feelings. I now also feel bad to have done that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was euphoric, we had just won and we were singing&#8230; Once again, I apologise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His coach at Marseille, Didier Deschamps, said the player had made a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s made a huge blunder but he didn&#8217;t think it would reach such proportions &#8211; he knows it now and he&#8217;s very sorry,&#8221; the coach said.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwo could be suspended by the disciplinary commission, which would be a blow to reigning champions Marseille, who are just behind league leaders Lille in the standings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>see also<\/p>\n<hr class=\"pufff\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/09fe84c5celebbdygty.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9466995.stm\" title=\"Nigeria's Taiwo faces hearing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria&#8217;s Taiwo faces hearing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nigeria&#8217;s Taye Taiwo says that Marseille can win the French league Nigeria defender Taye Taiwo faces a French League (LFP) disciplinary hearing on 5 May for using foul language after a match. Taiwo could be suspended if found guilty, while his team-mate Stephane Mbia of Cameroon has also been summoned to the hearing. The Nigerian chanted an anti-Paris St Germain song containing an expletive after their League Cup final win last Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":402167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria&#039;s Taiwo faces hearing - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/nigerias-taiwo-faces-hearing\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria&#039;s Taiwo faces hearing - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nigeria&#039;s Taye Taiwo says that Marseille can win the French league Nigeria defender Taye Taiwo faces a French League (LFP) disciplinary hearing on 5 May for using foul language after a match. 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