Hearts to appeal against £100,000 SFA fine
The punishment was administered by the old Disciplinary Committee and is clearly a massive area of conflict for new SFA President Campbell Oglivie who is a Hearts director.
Following Tuesday’s vote at the AGM of the SFA the Disciplinary procedures and punishments for next season will be changed.
The Edinburgh side have been ordered to pay £60,000 straight away with a further £40,000 of the fine suspended after having their didsciplinary record investigated for the seventh season running!.
In a statement issued tonight Hearts said: “The appeal will be based on the fact that Jim Jefferies’ side improved its discipline significantly in season 2010-11, its red card count slashed to just five compared to ten during the previous campaign.
“The club strongly believes that the heavy fine – £40,000 of which is suspended – grossly misrepresents the improvements made, with Hearts’ final season disciplinary co-efficient of 7.54 well below the previous season’s co-efficient of 8.33.
“Hearts will also use in its defence the fact that the difference between the average co-efficient across the league and its final co-efficient has reduced substantially from 2.94 in season 2009-10 to 1.63 last season, demonstrating a further trend of improvement.”
Thirty clubs were fined by the SFA with the highest punishments handed out to Stirling Albion who were hit with a £3,000 fine with Dundee and Montrose each getting fined £2,000.
There is still no word of what punishment Hearts will receive after a supporter attacked Neil Lennon at Tynecastle.
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