{"id":69705,"date":"2026-03-22T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/union-fan-groups-criticize-clubs-response-to-suspension-of-sporting-director-ernst-tanner\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:57:23","slug":"union-fan-groups-criticize-clubs-response-to-suspension-of-sporting-director-ernst-tanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/union-fan-groups-criticize-clubs-response-to-suspension-of-sporting-director-ernst-tanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Union fan groups criticize club\u2019s response to suspension of sporting director Ernst Tanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Tanner suspended over misconduct allegations<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sons of Ben want further explanation of situation<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amid the worst start to a season in team history, the Philadelphia Union\u2019s largest supporters group has criticized the club\u2019s response to the suspension of its sporting director, Ernst Tanner. Tanner, who was the subject of a league investigation into wide-ranging, alleged misconduct, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/16\/mls-suspends-ernst-tanner-philadelphia-union-misconduct-investigation\">was suspended by Major League Soccer<\/a> without pay last week; the suspension runs through 1 June.<\/p>\n<p>The Union released a boilerplate statement after the suspension was announced, with Tanner apologizing to the club and its supporters for the situation\u2019s \u201cimpact.\u201d Tanner did not address any of the allegations made against him or offer an apology to any specific person. He has denied the allegations throughout.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/22\/union-fan-groups-response-ernst-tanner-suspension\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanner suspended over misconduct allegations Sons of Ben want further explanation of situation Amid the worst start to a season in team history, the Philadelphia Union\u2019s largest supporters group has criticized the club\u2019s response to the suspension of its sporting director, Ernst Tanner. Tanner, who was the subject of a league investigation into wide-ranging, alleged &#8230; <a title=\"Union fan groups criticize club\u2019s response to suspension of sporting director Ernst Tanner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/union-fan-groups-criticize-clubs-response-to-suspension-of-sporting-director-ernst-tanner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Union fan groups criticize club\u2019s response to suspension of sporting director Ernst Tanner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}