CELTIC WINGER DERK BOERRIGTER accepted a two-match ban for diving last night.
Boerrigter was handed the punishment after the Scottish Football Association’s compliance officer accused him of simulation over the penalty that put Celtic 2-0 up against St Johnstone last week.
The SFA has now confirmed that Celtic and their player will not challenge the ban.
Boerrigter went down following a delay after being brushed by St Johnstone defender Dave Mackay, who was shown a straight red card by referee John Beaton.
Nir Biton converted before Celtic wrapped up a 3-0 Scottish Premiership win.
St Johnstone appealed against that decision and Mackay now looks likely to be cleared at a hearing on Thursday.
Boerrigter will miss Celtic’s league games against Inverness and Dundee but will be available to play Maribor in the Champions League this week.
Great be good to seem more of this..
the diving or the banning?
Well done SFA . They can actually lead the world now in stamping out this blight on the game, keep it up , the rest may follow.
Looked like a pen at the time but after seeing it on tv its a definate dive.. good enough for him!
Hallef***inlujah its about time commen sence broke out somewhere. Even the dogs on the street have been proposing retrospective bans for diving for years. If tgey hammer it for a month pretty soon the systematic diving will cease and this dark art will be valueless
To be fair theres been quite a few bans in the spl and lower league in recent years for diving so hopefully it’ll get the message across!
Diving is a bookable offence. So does this mean that, in future, when a player gets a yellow card for diving he will also get a 2 game suspension? Somehow I doubt it. So this guy got a suspension cause the ref f’d up….
Who is Nir Biton?