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Former Celtic striker agrees move to Australian third tier

Leigh Griffiths is linking up with Mandurah City.

FORMER CELTIC striker Leigh Griffiths has agreed to join Australian semi-professional side Mandurah City.

The club say the 31-year-old will play in their last two home games of the season.

Mandurah play in the Football West State League Division 1, which is among a group of 11 regional divisions in the third tier of football in Australia.

The club, based about an hour from Perth, are managed by former Raith Rovers, Partick Thistle and St Mirren forward John Baird.

Griffiths was recently training with Livingston to keep fit after leaving Falkirk at the end of last season.

The Scotland international signed a new contract with Celtic on 1 July last year but never featured under Ange Postecoglou and had an underwhelming loan spell with Dundee before joining Falkirk in January, hitting a total of five goals throughout the campaign.

Griffiths scored 123 goals in 261 appearances for Celtic but off-field issues relating to his mental health, which led to him spending six months out of the game in 2018-19, impacted the latter stages of his Parkhead career.

The former Livingston, Wolves and Hibernian forward won the last of his 22 Scotland caps in November 2020 and was left out of the squad for the European Championship finals the following summer.

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    Sep 26th 2012, 9:37 PM

    Must be something in it there is a lot of managers before saying stuff about Fergie the bully of refs just look at Howard Webb why it it’s only when someone says something said about united the FA come done hard is it because there chairman sits on the FA board I wonder ?

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    Sep 26th 2012, 9:57 PM

    What?

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    Sep 26th 2012, 11:40 PM

    David Gill was voted on the FA board by the premier league chairmen… As was David Dein, former Arsenal chairman, who Gill replaced, don’t be so ambiguous with your facts

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    Sep 27th 2012, 12:17 AM

    Just another bitter Abu, learn your facts before you make stupid statements

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    Sep 27th 2012, 6:58 AM

    A lot of manure supporters on here

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    Sep 27th 2012, 8:46 AM

    Learn my facts why is the chairman not on the board

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    Sep 27th 2012, 8:48 AM

    What?

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    Sep 27th 2012, 8:49 AM

    Seriously Gavin get a clue

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    Sep 27th 2012, 8:51 AM

    Start thinking the manure way u mean no thanks

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    Sep 27th 2012, 9:19 AM

    Gavin please stop using the term manure, it derives from a particularly nasty Munich chant originating from Leeds fans, David Gill sits on the board, as Dein did previously, as the Premier Leagues representative, he has no control or leverage over the disciplinary procedure, if he did do you think Sir Alex would have had a touch line ban in each of the last two years, or Rooney have been rightly made an example of after his foul mouthed tirade down the camera after the West Ham game the year before last.

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