{"id":7961,"date":"2025-04-10T13:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7961\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:15:12","slug":"rangers-star-vaclav-cerny-learns-his-fate-over-watergate-bust-up-with-celtic-fans-as-sfa-decide-on-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7961\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers star Vaclav Cerny learns his fate over watergate bust-up with Celtic fans as SFA decide on punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VACLAV CERNY has DODGED a suspension over the so-called watergate scandal that occurred during last month&#8217;s Old Firm derby.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/team\/14923\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rangers<\/a> star was caught squirting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/team\/14914\/celtic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a> fans with water as he and his team mates celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/who\/hamza-igamane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamza Igamane<\/a>&#8216;s winning goal at Parkhead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screengrab of a man in a suit holding a soccer ball at a Celtic v Rangers game.\" height=\"543\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/screengrab-taken-sky-sports-coverage-980321313_269773.jpg\" data-caption=\"The SFA have made a decision on Vaclav Cerny's conduct against Celtic\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/screengrab-taken-sky-sports-coverage-980321313_269773.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>The SFA have made a decision on Vaclav Cerny&#8217;s conduct against Celtic<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/14502789\/rangers-nedim-bajrami-vaclav-cerny-spraying-water-celtic-fans\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cerny and Nedim Bajrami were spotted aiming water bottles at Hoops supporters<\/a> housed in the front rows of the main stand.<\/p>\n<p>The scenes provoked fury in the crowd and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/14497796\/unseen-moment-rangers-staff-member-celtic-fans-cerny-water\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gers staffers and ground security had to step in to try and calm things down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some were so angry they some members of the crowd\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/14497295\/rangers-cerny-sprays-celtic-fans-water-old-firm\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PUNCHED the away side&#8217;s dugout shelter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With no sort of precedence to go on, the SFA allowed police to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/14502424\/rangers-vaclav-cerny-water-celtic-police-probe\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take a look into the incident first<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more Rangers stories<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/14573939\/police-verdict-rangers-vaclav-cerny-watergate-celtic-probe\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cops decided there was no action to take<\/a> after launching an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>And now the SFA have acted by issuing a formal warning to Cerny over the incident and his future conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Cerny and Gers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/14504430\/rangers-vaclav-cerny-sfa-sweat-ban-celtic-fans\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sweating over a potential ban<\/a> but the player will instead be free to continue playing for the remainder of the season as normal &#8211; providing he does not step out of line again.<\/p>\n<p>The soaking scandal was one of the main talking points from the derby clash &#8211; despite all the action on the park itself.<\/p>\n<p>The Light Blues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/14482927\/celtic-vs-rangers-barry-ferguson-unrecognisable-clement\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won 3-2 on the day<\/a> after seeing Celts battle back to 2-2 in the second half, as the visitors surrendered a two-goal lead.<\/p>\n<p>Gers boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/who\/barry-ferguson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barry Ferguson<\/a>, who said he initially didn&#8217;t see what happened, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/14554268\/rangers-manager-barry-ferguson-vaclav-cerny-water-celtic\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defended Cerny&#8217;s actions<\/a> and described him as someone who became &#8220;over excited&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers manager Barry Ferguson breaks his silence on the row over Vaclav Cerny&#8217;s &#8216;water spraying&#8217; Old Firm celebration controversy<\/p>\n<p>He said:\u00a0&#8220;The reaction was, he&#8217;s excited because his teammate&#8217;s just scored what was to be the winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would have a problem if my players and my staff sat in their\u00a0seat\u00a0and never said a word or done anything. I want to see players and staff celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do we play\u00a0football? We play football to\u00a0win\u00a0games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when we win games I want to see my players and my staff celebrating alongside our supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes you get a wee bit over excited, I&#8217;ve no issues with that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I said, Vaclav was just over excited when his teammate Hamza scored a goal to get us a three points where we&#8217;ve not been able to do that for five years which is a long, long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/football\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VACLAV CERNY has DODGED a suspension over the so-called watergate scandal that occurred during last month&#8217;s Old Firm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[2353,94,5074,1638,189,2351,79,16,15,5073],"class_list":{"0":"post-7961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-celtic","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-rangers","11":"tag-scottish-premiership","12":"tag-section-sportfootball","13":"tag-section-sportfootballscottish-premiership","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-vaclav-cerny"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114313856735315420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}