Disciplinary Updates

Fast Track Notice of Complaint | Calum Butcher, Player, Dundee United FC

Player: Calum Butcher, Dundee United FC

Match: Dundee United FC v Celtic FC

Date: Sunday, 5 December 2021

Competition: SPFL Premiership

Disciplinary Rule allegedly breached: Disciplinary Rule 200: Where it is established that a player has committed any one or more of the following sending off offences during a match:

(A1) Serious foul play (as described from time to time in the Laws of the Game), but only where the acts and/or omissions constituting the sending off offence:
(i) were committed intentionally; and/or
(ii) fell significantly below the standard of conduct expected of a Player in the prevailing circumstances; and
(iii) in the case of each of (i) and/or (ii) above, demonstrate a culpable disregard by the Player for the consequences which might result from such acts and/or omissions.
(A2) Violent conduct (as described from time to time in the Laws of the Game)
(A3) Biting or spitting at someone,

and, in the case of each or any of A1, A2 and/or A3, where the player was not dismissed by the referee as a result of the alleged act/acts referred to within the Fast Track Notice of Complaint.

Any Fast Track Notice of Complaint alleging a breach of this Rule shall be Determined by a Fast Track Tribunal subject to the provisions of Section 13.

Fast Track Tribunal Hearing: Thursday, 9 December 2021

Disciplinary Tribunal Update | Aidan McAdams, Player, Ayr United FC  

Alleged Party in Breach: Aidan McAdams, Player, Ayr United FC

Date: 26 October 2021

Competition: Scottish Championshi

Match: Ayr United FC v Kilmarnock FC

Disciplinary Rules allegedly breached:

Disciplinary Rule 77 - A recognised football body, club, official, Team Official, other member of Team Staff, player, match official or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA shall, at all times, act in the best interests of Association Football. Furthermore such person or body shall not act in any manner which is improper or use any one, or a combination of, violent Conduct, serious foul play, threatening, abusive, indecent or insulting words or behaviour.

Principal hearing date: Thursday 2 December 2021

Outcome: Suspension of 2 matches immediate

Notice of Complaint | Stephen Glass, Team Staff, Aberdeen FC

Alleged Party in Breach: Stephen Glass, Team Staff, Aberdeen FC

Date: 20 November 2021

Competition: Scottish Premiership

Match: Dundee United FC v Aberdeen FC

Disciplinary Rules allegedly breached:

Disciplinary Rule 203 – No member of Team Staff shall commit Misconduct at a match

Principal hearing date: Thursday 16 December 2021

Fixed Suspension of 1 match offered

NOTICE OF CLAIM | CHRISTIAN DOIDGE, PLAYER, HIBERNIAN FC

Player: Christian Doidge, Hibernian FC

Match: Ross County FC v Hibernian FC on 24 November 2021

Competition: Scottish Premiership

Offence: A2 – Violent Conduct

Claim: Wrongful Dismissal

Fast Track Tribunal Hearing: Friday 26 November 2021

Outcome: Claim Dismissed

Notice of Complaint | John Needham, Chairman, St. Mirren FC  

Alleged Party in Breach: John Needham, Chairman, St. Mirren FC

Disciplinary Rules allegedly breached:

Disciplinary Rule 71 - No recognised football body, club, official, Team Official or other member of Team Staff, player, match official, or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA shall bring the game into disrepute.

Disciplinary Rule 73 - No recognised football body, club, official, Team Official or other member of Team Staff, player, match official or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA shall in an interview, a ‘blog’ on the internet, on a social networking or microblogging site, or in any other manner calculated or likely to lead to publicity, make comment(s) of a discriminatory or offensive nature based on, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability, or that endorse or encourage foul play or violent Conduct or are otherwise offensive. There shall be a presumption that any material published in such a manner was published in the name of and/or with the authority of the person or body bearing to have published the material.

Disciplinary Rule 77 - A recognised football body, club, official, Team Official, other member of Team Staff, player, match official or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA shall, at all times, act in the best interests of Association Football. Furthermore such person or body shall not act in any manner which is improper or use any one, or a combination of, violent Conduct, serious foul play, threatening, abusive, indecent or insulting words or behaviour.

Principal hearing date: Thursday 2 December 2021

Outcome: £6000 fine applied as follows: £5000 immediate, £1000 suspended until the end of Season 2021/22 should there be a further breach of Disciplinary Rules 71/73/77 in this time period.