Raz Amir
Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv players face off (Lilach Weiss-Rosenberg)
Another bizarre case courtesy of the Football Association’s court and the prosecutor, attorney Nir Rashef, after Maccabi Tel Aviv found out today that they are being prosecuted for inappropriate behavior on behalf of the team’s players after they sang “Come on, home” at the end of the 1:2 victory in the youth derby over Hapoel Tel Spring.
The big surprise was that the prosecution is described as “following the singing, a skirmish started on the spot”, when in practice Hapoel Tel Aviv is not being prosecuted at all for the fact that its players attacked the Maccabi Tel Aviv players and were the ones who ran towards their bench and started pushing and trying to hit some of the players with their fists .
The only thing for which Hapoel Tel Aviv stands trial for the events of the youth derby is the section of chants of racism following the grunts in the direction of Abdullah Dau, the defender from the Ivory Coast of Maccabi Tel Aviv, which were noted in the report of the judge and the observer.
Regarding the punishments, the court of the association determined that based on the undisclosed judge’s report, the Reds were convicted of racist chants. Taking into account the suspended sentence pending against the group and applied, the group was sentenced to a fine of NIS 7,000.
The judge Adv Israel Shimoni He added, in what could be interpreted as a criticism of the association’s prosecutor for not prosecuting the Reds due to the attack: “I would add that it is appropriate to consider the prosecution of the Hapoel Tel Aviv players in view of the alleged aggression of its players towards the Maccabi players at the end.”
The punishment of Maccabi Tel Aviv
“Inappropriate behavior regarding the defiant calls at the end towards the opposing players, AR led to the recent outbursts. In this regard, I would like to point out that the disproportionate outburst of the Hapoel players towards the Maccabi players, as can be seen in the video, does not absolve Maccabi Tel Aviv from responsibility for the defiant act itself.” The prescribed fine is 1,000 NIS.
