John Obi Mikel has been handed a three-match suspension and fined ?60,000 for his actions following Chelsea's defeat to Manchester United.
The midfielder entered the referee's dressing room after the 28 October clash at Stamford Bridge to confront match official Mark Clattenburg.
Mikel had been informed by team-mates that Clattenburg had used inappropriate language of a racist nature towards him during the match, allegations which later proved to be false.
The Football Association acknowledged the circumstances that led to his actions and said the levels of the ban and fine had been imposed accordingly.
A statement on the FA website read: "The Regulatory Commission's independent chairman Christopher Quinlan QC emphasised that the Independent Regulatory Commission accepted, as did The FA, that at the time he threatened the referee the player genuinely believed that the referee had racially abused him.
"But for that factor the suspension would have been significantly longer."
Mikel accepted the FA's charge of "using threatening and/or abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour in the official's changing room" and will now miss the Premier League games against Sunderland and Southampton as well as the Capital One cup quarter-final against Leeds.
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Arena Coventry Limited, who manage the Ricoh Arena on behalf of joint owners the Alan Edward Higgs Charity and Coventry City Council, yesterday issued a statutory demand for ?1.1million in unpaid rent by the club stretching back 10 months.
The Sky Blues have 21 days, until Boxing Day in effect, to pay the sum or potentially face a winding-up order.
Coventry responded yesterday with an official statement claiming their annual rate of ?1.28m is the highest in both League One and the Championship by some considerable distance, while also bemoaning the fact they do not get access to 100 per cent of match-day revenue.
Fisher was coy over how much money, if any, will be paid by December 26 and said negotiations will continue to have to play a part over the next three weeks.
But the City chief is adamant Coventry, FA Cup winners in 1987, will not go to the wall and says they will play elsewhere before that happens.
He said: "I'll tell you one thing, the club comes first. We are committed to fulfil our fixtures. This isn't about liquidation. This isn't about the club going out of existence, we need to be absolutely crystal about that.
"This is about the club setting up a sustainable business model. We will fulfil our fixtures and, by the way, we have contingencies because we are managing our risks, you have to plan. So if the Ricoh shut the doors, we will play elsewhere. If forced into a corner that's exactly what we'll do."
Fisher added: "My message to supporters is there is no liquidation scenario."
