London - Newcastle United striker Papiss Cisse will face a severe punishment after accepting an FA charge of spitting at Manchester United defender Jonny Evans in Wednesday's Premier League match.
"Both ourselves and Papiss agree this kind of behaviour is not acceptable," Newcastle managing director Lee Charnley said in a statement on Thursday.
The precise sanction the FA will hand out is not yet known but media reports said the Senegalese international faced a lengthy ban. Evans has also been charged for spitting at Cisse but he denies any wrongdoing.