Paulo Fonseca, the head coach of French soccer team Olympique Lyonnais, has been given a nine-month suspension after confronting a referee – a sanction the club described as “severe” and “unprecedented.

The manager's outburst at the end of Lyon's win over Brest resulted in an unprecedented ban that will keep him from the touchline through the end of November.

Lyon head coach Paulo Fonseca has been handed a 9-month ban by Ligue 1’s Disciplinary Committee yesterday after confronting Ligue 1 referee Benoît Millot. The scale of the punishment for a head