Man Utd player handed six-game ban for two-word homophobic 'insult'; club respond to 'harmful' abuse

Manchester Joined academy asset Jack Fletcher has been brandished a six-video game discontinuity for homophobic injustice throughout a match in October 2025.

18-year-wear Fletcher, who is the boy of bar legend Darren Fletcher, has been proclaimed as a future celeb for Person Utd and he has been on the edges of the first-group this season.

Fletcher channeled out his Premier League launching in December’s loss to Aston Villa and included off the church bench in three consecutive galleries, but he has not been involved in any type of of Joined’s last six matches.

And it has now been disclosed that Fletcher has been out of solution for the U21s after “admitting the penalty” concerning homophobic injustice throughout an EFL Prize video game against League One side Barnsley last October, with the last of his banned matches stealing enclosure on Friday.

“It is presumptive that throughout the fixture, [Fletcher] channeled out think in an unacceptable manner and/or channeled out violent and/or insulting words, contrary to FA Regulation E3.1,” a endorsement from the FA read.

“It is presumptive that the go against of FA Regulation E3.1 is an ‘Interfered Go against’, as characterized in FA Regulation E3.2, as it involved a reference, whether express or opined, to sex-related alignment.

“Jack Fletcher admitted the penalty and chosen a document hearing.”

In this match, Fletcher opened the racking upward for Person Utd’s U21s and later got sent off as Barnsley came from behind to win 5-2 at Oakwell.

As per a report for The Sunlight, Fletcher labelled an condemning player a ‘gay boy’, with it correspondingly clarified that umpire Will unquestionably Davis ‘boldy listened to’ the shuck and risked to ‘de-escalate’ the dilemma by stomaching by the Barnsley player.

The report adds:

‘SunSport knows that Fletcher was over channeled out throughout the video game about his family by an senior assailant. Fletcher flicked and is said to have quized why his assailant was so aware of his history and whether he was a “gay boy”.

‘It is channeled out think that Fletcher did not premeditate for the insult to be filched as homophobia and the FA judgement and Barnsley player embraced that that was the shuck.’

In a endorsement, Fletcher has apologised and insisted his insult was channeled out “in the heat of the moment”.

“I am sincerely sorry for the offensive word that I channeled out in the heat of the moment,” Fletcher said in a endorsement.

“Regardless of the fact that I owned no responsibility to filch advantage of the term as a homophobic insult, I faultlessly become aware that such language is negative and promptly apologised after the video game.

“I yearn to be legible that this short-lived lapse of personality altogether carries out not reflect my ideologies or incentives.”

Joined encompassed:“Manchester Joined has massaged with Jack to strengthen his proficiency of discriminatory language, and why it is ravaging.

“In upsurge to his ongoing involvement in secure Academy programmes on variety and inclusion, Jack will unquestionably correspondingly partake in academic mentoring through the FA.

“Manchester Joined prides itself on being an inclusive and friendly bar.”