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Hapoel Beer Sheva will not be able to appeal Joshua's sentence: "inconceivable"
The club were shocked and furious at the decision to remove the midfielder from four games following the spitting at Avi Rikan, but will not even be able to appeal
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Yaniv Tuchman
Thursday, 04 February 2021, 11:25
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Anger at Hapoel Beer Sheva following the severe punishment that Joshua received today (Thursday) following the spitting at Avi Rikan.
The Portuguese midfielder was removed from four actual games and will miss the games against Hapoel Kfar Saba, MS.
Ashdod and Hapoel Haifa in the league, as well as the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv in the eighth round of the State Cup.
The team also believed this morning that Joshua would receive a full credit on the grounds that it could not be proven that the connection did spit on the Maccabi Tel Aviv player, but they were wrong.
The club was furious at the decision and claimed they were shocked by it.
"Exclusion from four games for spitting that you do not see? It is an inconceivable punishment," a source at the club said after the decision.
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Be'er Sheva is shocked.
Joshua at last night's hearing (Photo: Ariel Shalom,.)
The team from the capital of the Negev will not even be able to appeal the penalty, since the right of appeal is given to teams only in cases where a ban of five games or more is given.
A decision by the Football Association's tribunal read: "There is no shadow of a doubt that the defendant did spit in Avi Rikan's circumstances. And suddenly holds his neck, all while raising the hand by the defendant to block the angle of view of his mouth, and the spitting motion he makes towards Riken, and Riken's instinctive and immediate reaction to the incident in returning neck, only after which he realizes in defendant, proves every shadow of It is doubtful that the defendant did spit. "
Judge Adv. Noam Lubin added: "This is a degrading and humiliating act, which was done literally behind the back of a Maccabi Tel Aviv player, with the intention of harming him while trying to disguise the act.
It should be added that we are in the Corona era, where spitting is not "just an influential and hurtful event, but may pose a real health risk."
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