OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 3.30pm.
ORLANDO Pirates has fined midfield star John Moeti R500 or he must sit out the rest of the premiership season without salary. Moeti failed to play in a league match two weeks ago.
Pirates’s disciplinary committee chief Cyril Kobus said Moeti was fined R20000, but R15000 of the penalty was suspended on the condition that the problem does not come up again.
Moeti is reportedly unhappy about the process and will appeal to the Premier Soccer League. He has one week to pay the R5000.
After Moeti’s pre-hearing suspension by Pirates two weeks ago, the SA Football Association withdrew him from the national squad to face Mauritius on Saturday in an African Nations’ Cup qualifying match.