Wales prop Tomas Francis handed eight-week ban for Dan Cole incident

• Francis ‘recklessly made contact’ with eye or eye area of Cole • Prop to miss Exeter’s regular season run-in and European quarter-finalThe Exeter and Wales prop Tomas Francis has been banned for eight weeks after he was adjudged to have recklessly made contact with the eye area of Dan Cole during his side’s defeat by England on Saturday.Francis, whose ban was reduced from 12 weeks by an independent Six Nations disciplinary committee in London, will miss Wales’s final Six Nations match against Italy on Saturday as well as Exeter’s remaining Premiership matches and their European Champions Cup…

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