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Fan to sue Diouf.
Fan to Sue Diouf over Spitting Incident
By Paul O’Hare, Scottish Press Association
A football fan is suing a Premiership player and his club for £50,000 after he was spat on during a European match, it emerged today.
Celtic supporter Dominic Schiavone is seeking damages from El-Hadji Diouf and Liverpool Football Club after the incident at a Uefa Cup clash last year.
His lawyers have launched an action at the Sheriff Court in Glasgow claiming the season ticket holder has been unable to return to his team’s home ground since the incident during the quarter final first leg tie on March 13.
Senegal international Diouf was fined £5,000 at Glasgow Sheriff Court last September after he pleaded guilty to assault under provocation.
The 23-year-old former African Footballer of the Year was fined two weeks’ wages and sent Celtic a £30,000 cheque for a charity of the club’s choice.
Diouf also made a public apology and was banned for two European matches.
But Uefa’s disciplinary panel also decided Diouf had been incited by supporters and fined Celtic £2,300.
It is understood Morgans, Schiavone’s solicitors, filed papers at the Sheriff Court on July 8.
The court granted the Dunfermline-based firm up to 12 months to formally serve a writ on Diouf and Liverpool FC.
If that happens, solicitors for the striker and the club will have 21 days to lodge an intention to defend.
Last September the court heard Diouf over-ran an attempt to reach the ball in the 86th minute of the match and landed in a seated area full of Celtic fans.
Procurator fiscal Elspeth Stewart said Mr Schiavone, of Glenrothes, Fife, helped get the player back up on his feet and patted him on the head while doing so.
The £10 million striker was then seen to turn around and spit at Mr Schiavone, who was 18 at the time of the incident.
The “Battle of Britain” match, which finished 1-1, was played in front of 60,000 fans and broadcast live on Channel Five.
The court heard that Diouf, whose wife gave birth the day after the game, was later substituted and interviewed by police in the dressing room.
Joe Beltrami, representing Diouf, said the star had been in shock after he fell on spectators.
He argued that the footballer had been “struck” on the head and that it was not simply a pat.
Mr Beltrami added that in Senegalese culture it was “degrading, insulting and patronising” to be touched in such a way on the back of the head as slave traders had treated slaves that way in the past.
By Paul O’Hare, Scottish Press Association
A football fan is suing a Premiership player and his club for £50,000 after he was spat on during a European match, it emerged today.
Celtic supporter Dominic Schiavone is seeking damages from El-Hadji Diouf and Liverpool Football Club after the incident at a Uefa Cup clash last year.
His lawyers have launched an action at the Sheriff Court in Glasgow claiming the season ticket holder has been unable to return to his team’s home ground since the incident during the quarter final first leg tie on March 13.
Senegal international Diouf was fined £5,000 at Glasgow Sheriff Court last September after he pleaded guilty to assault under provocation.
The 23-year-old former African Footballer of the Year was fined two weeks’ wages and sent Celtic a £30,000 cheque for a charity of the club’s choice.
Diouf also made a public apology and was banned for two European matches.
But Uefa’s disciplinary panel also decided Diouf had been incited by supporters and fined Celtic £2,300.
It is understood Morgans, Schiavone’s solicitors, filed papers at the Sheriff Court on July 8.
The court granted the Dunfermline-based firm up to 12 months to formally serve a writ on Diouf and Liverpool FC.
If that happens, solicitors for the striker and the club will have 21 days to lodge an intention to defend.
Last September the court heard Diouf over-ran an attempt to reach the ball in the 86th minute of the match and landed in a seated area full of Celtic fans.
Procurator fiscal Elspeth Stewart said Mr Schiavone, of Glenrothes, Fife, helped get the player back up on his feet and patted him on the head while doing so.
The £10 million striker was then seen to turn around and spit at Mr Schiavone, who was 18 at the time of the incident.
The “Battle of Britain” match, which finished 1-1, was played in front of 60,000 fans and broadcast live on Channel Five.
The court heard that Diouf, whose wife gave birth the day after the game, was later substituted and interviewed by police in the dressing room.
Joe Beltrami, representing Diouf, said the star had been in shock after he fell on spectators.
He argued that the footballer had been “struck” on the head and that it was not simply a pat.
Mr Beltrami added that in Senegalese culture it was “degrading, insulting and patronising” to be touched in such a way on the back of the head as slave traders had treated slaves that way in the past.
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