Published on Friday 27 January 2012 00:46
HIBERNIAN winger Ivan Sproule has been handed a two-match suspended ban by the Scottish Football Association for comments made about referee Craig Thomson following the 1-0 defeat by Aberdeen at Pittodrie last December.
Sproule described Thomson’s handling of the Scottish Premier League encounter as “one of the poorest refereeing performances I’ve seen in a long time” and “a shambles”.
In advocating the official’s demotion to the First Division, Sproule also branded the decision to award the Dons a match-winning penalty against him for a challenge on Peter Pawlett as “ridiculous”.
Sproule’s ban will come in to force if he again breaches rule 68 – which covers the criticism of match officials – before 17 December, 2012.
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