United Soccer League has suspended Orange County Blues midfielder Richard Chaplow two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for verbally abusing LA Galaxy's Robbie Rogers with homophobic language, the league announced on Wednesday.
While it does not specifically refer to the incident by name, USL's release acknowledged that the 31-year-old Chaplow, a former England U-21 international and longtime player England's top three tiers of soccer, was disciplined "for offensive and abusive language directed at another player during his team’s game against the LA Galaxy II on Aug. 20."
Rogers, who was playing for Galaxy II while working his way back from an injury, claimed that a Blues player called him "queer" repeatedly during the last 15 minutes of their match in an extensive Facebook post.