Garcia to miss final

ByReuters

Published 28/04/2006 at 13:26 GMT

Liverpool's Luis Garcia and West Ham's Hayden Mullins have lost their appeals against being sent off in a league match between the sides on Wednesday and will miss next month's FA Cup Final when the two teams meet again.

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The FA said on Friday, a disciplinary commission hearing had turned down the appeals.

The two players were shown red cards for violent conduct following an incident during the match at Upton Park.

A statement on the FA website said: "Mullins and Garcia will both serve three-match suspensions with immediate effect."

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Eight minutes from the end of Wednesday's game, which Liverpool won 2-1, Spaniard Garcia was involved in a scuffle with Mullins and the two midfielders were sent off.

Managers of both clubs had hoped for leniency because of the May 13 Cup final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

Garcia scored one of the goals in Liverpool's 2-1 defeat of Chelsea in the semi-final last Saturday.

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