One-match ban imposed on Arsenal's Vieira

Patrick Vieira was today handed a one-match ban and

Patrick Vieira was today handed a one-match ban and

fined £10,000 sterling by a FA disciplinary panel.

The FA referred two incidents involving the Arsenal midfielder during a bad-tempered Premiership clash with Leeds in November to its video panel.

The panel found Vieira guilty of kicking fellow Frenchman Olivier Dacourt but cleared him of headbutting Norwegian midfielder Eirik Bakke.

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