I think you're being unfair to him Marshal on that point and to be honest, given you wrote the lede it does kind of undermines the defence I made of you.  Whilst I agree with you this was a football article and its a overly broad interpretation of your ban, you need to write your own appeal per WP:GAB.  When I appealed mistakenly on your behalf I think I made the basis of a case for a block review.  You need to write an appeal for yourself in your own words.  I'd offer to help but at this point wonder if I would make it worse.  talk