PSL DC Lock Chiefs out
PSL DC Lock Chiefs out

Posted in News on Oct 10, 2006.

A special sitting of the Premier Soccer League Disciplinary Committee ruled on Tuesday evening that Kaizer Chiefs, will have to play their league game against Moroka Swallows scheduled for Saturday 11 November behind closed doors.



This decision was reached after the PSL DC viewed incidents at the end of the Kaizer Chiefs – Wits University match, at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on the 20th September. When unruly fans hurled objects at players as well as referee Jerome Damon, and delayed the official’s departure from the field at the end of the game.



The DC also ruled that in addition to supporters being barred entry from the game on the 11th November; a television black out of the match will also be enforced.



Furthermore pertaining to incidents of crowd misbehaviour during the SAA Supa8 Semi Final, between Kaizer Chiefs and Moroka Swallows on the 24th September at the ABSA Stadium in Durban.



Coupled with the incidents at the end of the game against Bidvest Wits on the 20th September 2006, the club has been handed a R250 000 fine suspended for a year.



In addition the league will set up a special commission of enquiry to research the incidents during and the Bidvest Wits and SAA Supa8 game against Moroka Swallows and will make their findings public once they have completed their research.



Kaizer Chiefs have also given the league an assurance that they will use video and photographic evidence to identify those responsible for causing damage to the FNB Stadium on the 20th September, and bring them to book.



A process which the club has already begun as a number of the perpetrators have been identified, through video and photographic evidence handed to the club, due legal process will be followed against those identified.

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