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Cardiff boss Warnock welcomes Azpilicueta gesture: You should pay fine

Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock has accepted the fine he's copped after criticising ref Craig Pawson.

Relegation would be a bitter pill to swallow for ­Warnock, having been relegated from the top flight with Notts County and Sheffield United.

It would come on top of a £20,000 FA fine for comments made about the officials after a 2-1 home defeat to Chelsea.

“I'll just have to take it on the chin," he added. “The scope of things you can't say now is pretty much everything. “That's the way it's going now and the humour's gone out of the game. I'll just have to say, 'No comment' and be a boring ­person."

The only good bit of news for Warnock is two Crowd Funding appeals set up to help him pay the fine have reached £515 — Chelsea's Cesar Azpilicueta, who scored the offside goal that helped to beat Cardiff in that controversial game last month, has also pledged to chip in.

“They got ­winning bonuses which they all know they shouldn't have got," said ­Warnock. “I'm not saying it would be justice, but it would be nice of him to do it."

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