CITY'S appeal against Romain Vincelot's three-game ban has been rejected.

The club were not disputing referee Darren Drysdale's decision to dismiss the skipper in Tuesday's Carabao Cup defeat to Doncaster.

But they were hoping to have the three-game suspension - the standard punishment for an automatic red card - reduced.

An appeal was put in before today's 1pm deadline, but they found out this afternoon that it had been turned down.

Vincelot would have missed Saturday's trip to Gillingham either way.

Stuart McCall said: "It wasn't malicious, just slightly late. I don't dispute it's a red card but is that comparable to somebody doing something nasty? I don't think it is."