The RFU has banned a former council member from attending rugby matches at all levels after he was found guilty of using a racial slur.
Andrew Sarek accepted that he addressed a volunteer as a “black c***” during England’s clash with Wales in August.
However, he has denied that the term was “racist” and instead insisted that his comment was simply “crass”.
Sarek had stood down as an RFU council member for Eastern Counties five or six years ago according to the judgement.
The disciplinary judgement said: “When the RFU presented Mr Sarek with the facts of the allegations, as we have set out above, he readily accepted that he had committed an offence. Plainly all sides agree that the words ‘Black C’ were used.
“We regard it is as immaterial (for our purposes) whether ‘from the NLD’ were used. It is of note that Mr Sarek did not apologise at the time. Significantly, we found that whilst Mr Sarek accepted that his words were offensive, he had no insight as to the fact that they were racist. We reject the suggestion that they were merely crass.”
