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Good news for Maccabi Tel Aviv: the team's appeal for the reduction of the point awarded to them was accepted by the Supreme Court of the Football Association.
The meaning: a point was returned to the Yellows, who increased the gap at the top to two points over Maccabi Haifa, from which a point was deducted by the court.
As a reminder, the court of the Football Association punished Maccabi Tel Aviv by deducting a point for the events of the derby and the throwing of flares onto the field, which allegedly injured a player.
Maccabi Tel Aviv claimed that the fireworks that were fired towards the grass in the derby did not hit Derrick Lucassen and did not harm him, and the player submitted a statement to that effect at the early hearing.
The court offered the parties to reach a compromise, and convert the point reduction into a fine ("a suspended sentence instead of an actual reduction"), but the association's plaintiff refused, and the court was required to issue a verdict.
During the hearing, Maccabi Tel Aviv claimed that the procedure was wrong.
After getting the points back, the Yellows have 56 points at the top of the Premier League, with the courts having a decisive influence on whether Maccabi Tel Aviv is in first place and not Maccabi Haifa.
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The appeal and its results are significant for the continuation of the legislation regarding the punishments for groups.
The teams that wanted to stop with the radius penalties and the games without an audience, entered the fumble of dropping points, and if Maccabi Tel Aviv's appeal was not accepted and the dropping of points for the teams would continue, the teams would have to recalculate the route and work to tighten the time regulations so as not to reach a situation where in each round a team could absorb League point drop penalty.
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