CELTIC STAR LEIGH Griffiths has been fined £2,500 and given a suspended two-match ban for singing an offensive song about former Hearts player Rudi Skacel, who is a Czech national.
The ex-Hibs player was filmed singing “Rudi Skacel is a f**king refugee” in a pub full of other Hibs fans and had admitted an SFA charge of “not acting in the best interests of Association Football by singing in public a song of an offensive and insulting nature”.
The incident occurred in April of last year before Griffiths himself attended an Edinburgh derby between fierce rivals Hearts and Hibs at Tynecastle.
He has been given 30 days to pay his fine and has been warned that a two-game penalty will be triggered if he steps out of line again before the end of the season.
Celtic fined Griffiths four weeks wages over the incident and the player apologised for his wrongdoing. In a statement issued via the club, he said:
“I made a mistake, I wrongly became involved in this incident and did not fully consider my actions. I apologise unreservedly for this.
“I am pleased that the judge felt no further action was required. However this is a matter which I have absolutely learned from.”
Got em all right, im off to celebrate by getting a life
Taibi and I got 5/10 , I thought that might give me Paul Jones or ed de goy .. someone middle of the road , not that clown anyway… To sum up , a tad harsh ..
I am Peter schmeicel
Fabian Bartez, “good but not the best” , haha, pretty accurate there!
9/10. Agonised for ages over the Selhurst park question and then chose the wrong one.
That question was one of the only ones I got right lol. Milwall would never share a ground with Palace, would be like a south east WWIII.
Wouldn’t matter who Milwall were sharing a ground with….they’d start a war with anyone…
Tbf to the actual club, they’ve tried to stamp the rough element out of the game. They also do massive work for charities and advocacy to keep vital services at Lewisham Hospital. Having been to the New Den, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought, I guess it isn’t fair to tarnish the whole club with one brush. But they hate Palace, lol.
I stood in the away section at the old den in New Cross once, it was a cage thankfully cause we were battered with bricks and bottles for the entire game. Scary stuff.
Jaysus. 10/10. But if the quiz was the other way around – e.g. ‘where do the club who used to play at Ayresome Park now play?’ – then I’d be struggling to get two or three. Must really be showing my age.
6/10 with 3 of them guesses
100% I watch/have watched way to much football :L