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Cunha's glasses offer helps reduce punishmentpublished at 12:54 Greenwich Mean Time

12:54 GMT

Nick MashiterBBC Sport football news reporter

Matheus Cunha's offer to pay for new glasses for a member of Ipswich's security helped save him from a longer ban and heavier fine.

The Wolves striker was suspended for two games and an £80,000 fine after clashing with a member of the Tractor Boys' security team last month.

He had been charged by the Football Association with misconduct following the altercation - where he snatched the glasses off the face of the security guard - on the pitch at the final whistle of Wolves' 2-1 defeat at Molineux.

An regulatory commission initially considered hitting the 25-year-old with a £120,000 fine and a three-game ban.

But in their written reasons the commission agreed Cunha's acceptance of the charge, his sincere personal apology and the offer to pay for new glasses were mitigating factors, reducing the fine and ban.

Cunha served the first game of his ban on Monday, sitting out Wolves' 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest.

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