Chelsea skipper John Terry has until 6pm today to decide whether to challenge the four-match ban imposed on him for racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand.
Terry and his advisers have had two weeks to study the full written reasons of the decision by an FA independent regulatory commission.
An appeal by Terry, who was also fined £220,000, would, however, come as a surprise given that the panel labelled his defence "improbable, implausible and contrived".