Already Mikel has requested a personal hearing having been charged with misconduct for allegedly using threatening or abusive words and/or behavior “in or around the match officials’ changing room” following the defeat to Manchester United.
If the charge is upheld he will face a ban of a minimum of three matches and if the mitigating circumstances are rejected, that could stretch to five an FA official hinted.
The Football Association last week dismissed the Chelsea’s complaint that referee Mark Clattenburg had racially abused Mikel John Obi during the defeat by Manchester United on 28 October.
Chelsea, while backing their midfielder Ramires over claims he heard Clattenburg refer to Mikel as “a monkey” during the 3 2 loss, accepted the governing body’s decision that there was no case for the referee to answer and had been discussing making a gesture of reconciliation towards the official, who always denied wrongdoing.
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