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Published 12:09 25 Aug 2016 BST
Updated 12:09 25 Aug 2016 BST
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Rogers, one of few openly gay players currently active in football, revealed in a Facebook post that "In the heat of the last fifteen minutes of the game a player from the opposing team called me a "queer" repeatedly".
While he didn't name Chaplow specifically, the Englishman has felt compelled to issue a response in which he accepts the ban but says 'at no point in the game did I use homophobic slurs'.
'I would ask everyone to please read carefully the USL's statement and avoid misinterpreting it to what it does not say,' Chaplow writes. 'The statement clearly does not say that I directed homophobic slurs towards another player.'https://twitter.com/Rchap04/status/768609435044294656 The Orange County Blues have issued a statement of their own, in which they say a 'comprehensive investigation' was launched and there was 'no compelling evidence' proving Chaplow had used a homophobic slur. https://twitter.com/OCBluesFC/status/768591313331597313 The incident comes just days after Burnley striker Andre Gray was handed an FA charge relating to homophobic tweets posted in 2012 - something for which he has already apologised. At the time of writing, Rogers and LA Galaxy II are yet to respond to the USL statement, or the comments from Chaplow or the OC Blues. Read more:
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