Cockerill gets four-week ban

Tigers coach suspended following abuse charge

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Cockerill gets four-week ban

Cockerill: Abused official

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Leicester head coach Richard Cockerill has been banned for four matches by a Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel.

Cockerill admitted two offences of match official abuse during Tigers' LV= Cup clash against Newport Gwent Dragons at Welford Road earlier this month.

As a result Cockerill is suspended from any involvement with the Leicester team or match officials on game days until December 23, and from coaching mini, midi and youth rugby on Sundays, also until that date.

It means the 38-year-old will have no involvement in Leicester's Premiership games against Leeds Carnegie this weekend or away to Wasps on December 6.

And he must also sit out the key back-to-back Heineken Cup clashes against powerful French side Clermont Auvergne, the club Cockerill played for after calling time on his 224-match Tigers career.

He was also handed a £2,000 fine by the three-man panel.