Midfielder Anthony Sweeney must miss tonight's game at Notts County, after Hartlepool United's appeal against his dismissal on Saturday was rejected.

Pools supplied video evidence and believed it showed the ball striking Sweeney in the face - and not with his hands, as referee Clive Penton ruled at Macclesfield on Saturday.

But an FA commission upheld the decision of the official at Moss Rose and Sweeney's one-game suspension stands.