By Bryan Kay

A DUNDEE youth football team said to have provoked nasty scenes after a cup final defeat have been expelled from the district league set-up.

The ruling against Dundee Celtic Boys’ Club under-17s is understood to have been passed by the Scottish Youth Football Association following a recent hearing at Hampden Park.

But it has emerged the club, which belonged to the Dundee and District Youth Football Association, have since disbanded.

It was alleged a gift presentation to a retiring official was disturbed and club players threw their medals over a fence following an acrimonious end to the tie with Tayport Thistle.

The ruling effectively left the club without a future, meaning a disbandment was almost inevitable.

The incident occurred during the Bridge Cup final held at Whitton Park in April.

DDYFA president Jim Falconer said last night he was unable to comment on the outcome.

He said the club had a right of appeal over the ruling—a privilege that must be exercised by today.

The ruling also saw the club incur a three-figure fine.

The SYFA was contacted yesterday but national secretary David Little was unavailable for comment.

Dundee Celtic were originally suspended from playing while an investigation was completed into the events surrounding the fixture.

The interim ban meant the club, who were league champions, could not complete two league cup fixtures.

At the time Mr Falconer said that the league’s management committee was extremely disappointed with the behaviour of some players from the Dundee Celtic side. It was suggested they could even be stripped of their league title, but it is believed that sanction was not imposed.

The club hired solicitor George Donnelly while investigations into the incident were carried out.

He said then that the club refuted the majority of what were “unsubstantiated statements made by an anonymous source”—labelling them inaccurate and misleading.