Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Hapoel Beer Sheva 0:1/Sport1
A significant and fateful discussion was held at this time at the Supreme Court of the Football Association, with Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv each separately appealing the penalty of a league point reduction, which was imposed on each at the disciplinary court.
The court of the Football Association punished Maccabi Tel Aviv by deducting a point for the derby incidents and the throwing of flares onto the field, which allegedly injured a player.
Maccabi Tel Aviv claims that the fireworks that were fired towards the grass in the derby did not hit Derrick Lucassen and did not cause him any damage and the player submitted a statement to that effect at the early hearing.
Shalom Matlon, Gal Mizrahi, Daniel Asraf, the three lawyers who represent Maccabi Tel Aviv in the appeal at the association's court/Yaniv Tuchman
Advocate Boaz Shapira, representative of Hapoel Tel Aviv in the appeal at the court/Yaniv Tuchman
Hapoel Tel Aviv was punished by deducting a point in practice following the throwing of flares onto the lawn during the match against Beitar Jerusalem a few weeks ago. The Reds were also given a suspended sentence and were convicted of "fan rioting under aggravating circumstances".
The president of the new Supreme Court, Adv. Adi Zernkin, heads the panel that will hear the appeals and with him are judges Professor Miguel Deutsch and David Yahav.
Maccabi Tel Aviv is represented by attorney Shalom Matlon from the office of Moran Meiri, the club's legal advisor. Alongside attorney Matlon is partnered by attorney Yael Margalit, the club's attorney.
Attorney Gilad Bergman, the association's prosecutor/Yaniv Tuchman
Live reports from the discussion
1:40 p.m.:
Attorney Shalom Matlon, Maccabi Tel Aviv representative: "Everything related to fan riots is well known. The struggle is uncompromising and we as a club are partners in this both at the declarative level and at the operative level. Without detracting from the importance of the struggle, we think that our case is A relatively simple case in the sense that the club should not have been prosecuted in the manner presented. There was no bodily harm to Lucassen. There is no question about that. This charge should not have come to light."
The President of the New Supreme Court, Adv.
The discussion may change the legislative method.
Maccabi Tel Aviv/Ariel Shalom fans
Maccabi Tel Aviv claims that this case does not fall under the category of the three cases that are considered an offense of rioting under aggravated circumstances.
In the new hourly instructions of the regulations, there are three cases of rioting under aggravating circumstances: an event that resulted in the explosion of the game, physical harm to the player and causing damage to the player or any person on the grass and throwing pyrotechnic devices from stand to stand.
Since Lucassen claimed that he was not hurt and did not suffer any damage, Maccabi Tel Aviv believes that this is not the case for deducting a league point.
Moreover, Maccabi Tel Aviv claims that the head of the disciplinary court, attorney Israel Shimoni, ruled in a decision that they are appealing that there is no place to drop a point (unlike the judges Noam Lubin and Giura Landau) who ruled that it should be dropped, so Maccabi Tel Aviv is building on the basis of his ruling of Shimoni.
Today's appeal and its results are significant for the continuation of the legislation regarding the penalties for teams. The teams that wanted to stop the radius penalties and the games without an audience, entered the fumble of deducting points, and if Maccabi Tel Aviv's appeal is not accepted and the deducting of points for teams continues, the teams will have to recalculate a course and act to tighten the instructions of the time so as not to reach a situation where in each cycle a team may suffer a penalty of dropping a league point.
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