Holloway punished
Blackpool boss Ian Holloway has been given a one-match touchline ban after an altercation with officials during his team's 2-1 defeat by Blackburn last month, the Football Association confirmed Monday.
Holloway was also fined 9,500 pounds for his part in a bust-up with referee Mike Dean in the tunnel at Bloomfield Road following the defeat.
Holloway, who admitted a charge of improper conduct, had raged at match officials for allowing Brett Emerton's injury-time winner which he believed was off-side as well as an apparent foul in the build-up.
"I thought the referee had a poor game and he is going to report me for what I said to him in the tunnel," Holloway said after the match.
"I can't believe what he saw. I thought there were some unbelievably strange decisions out there.
"I waited for him in the tunnel. Never mind, I have got to learn and I should know better - but it is ridiculous."
The ban rules Holloway out of this weekend's visit of Manchester City.
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