Today’s News of the World proclaims that Swansea City are about to be the subject of a FAW investigation for the celebrations of Darren Pratley and Gorka Pintado in last week’s 2-2 draw with Cardiff at the Liberty<\/p>\n
The report says<\/p>\n
“The FA of Wales are set to launch an investigation into Swansea City’s controversial derby-day goal celebrations and could BAN two of their stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Darren Pratley and Gorka Pintado are in hot water for making provocative gestures following their goals in last Sunday’s fiery 2-2 draw with arch-rivals Cardiff.<\/span><\/p>\n “And the Swans pair could now be punished with a lengthy ban if brought to book.\u00a0\u00a0 Welsh football chiefs are considering looking into potentially explosive celebrations by the Liberty Stadium scorers.<\/span><\/p>\n “Pratley and Pintado made breast stroke gestures with their arms – a taunt dating back to a hooligan related incident 20 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n “Nearly 40 yobs were arrested after rival fans clashed following a Cup game in 1998.\u00a0 The brawl ended with Cardiff fans wading chest deep into the sea at Swansea Bay to escape the baying mob.<\/span><\/p>\n “An FAW insider said ‘We were aware of both goal celebration incidents taking place from the two players.<\/span><\/p>\n ‘Everyone knows the significance of the swim-away taunt and it was inappropriate and ill-judged<\/span><\/p>\n ‘One would hope that it was just over-exuberance on the part of the players but that’s still a little excuse.’<\/span>”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s News of the World proclaims that Swansea City are about to be the subject of a FAW investigation for the celebrations of Darren Pratley and Gorka Pintado in last week’s 2-2 draw with Cardiff at the Liberty The report says “The FA of Wales are set to launch an investigation into Swansea City’s controversial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}