Wayne Hennessey spared the punishment, on the other hand his ignorance was on display…
The welsh landsholdsmålmand getting in trouble even when he returned in January was caught up in something that could resemble a nazi salute in a picture, as teammate Max Meyer had put up on Instagram.
The 32-year-old Crystal Palace keeper was charged by the English football association (the FA), but has now been acquitted with the votes 2-1.
the FA took the matter very seriously and set up a commission, which has conducted several hearings of evidence.
the Commission’s report has now been published, and it is not flattering reading for Wayne Hennessey.
Crystal Palace keeper Wayne Hennessey has denied making a Nazi salute in a photo posted by team-mate Max Meyer.https://t.co/1j94I6MkCM pic.twitter.com/EB1auVhOhd
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) 7. January 2019
the Keeper was caught with a stretched right arm, while his left hand was across his mouth.
His explanation was that he ‘waved and shouted to the person who took the picture’ in order to catch his attention, and he had put his hand up to his mouth for the better to be heard in the noisy restaurant.
Hennessey told the commission that he did not know what a nazi salute was, and the explanation bought two of the three members.
– Although it is regrettable that anyone should be so ignorant about such an important part of our own and the history of the world, we do not feel that he is not telling the truth.
– Everything, what will we say (at the risk of sounding patronising) is that hr. Hennessey would do well to familiarize themselves with the events that continue to have great importance for those who live in a free country, writes the commission, according to The Guardian in the report.
With the votes 2-1 was the Crystal Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey cleared. Photo: Paul Childs/Ritzau Scanpix
It is concluded that Hennessey showed ’a very significant – one might even say regrettable – ignorance about everything that has with Hitler, fascism and the nazi regime to do so’.
It was during a holdmiddag at the Bagatelle Restaurant in London that Hennesey was trapped in a posture that led the mind back in the 30’s and 40’s Germany.
the Club launched an internal investigation and chose to acquit Hennessey on the basis of the goalie’s own explanation that it was an innocent gesture that was aimed to attract the photographer’s attention.
the Same decision the commission reached forward to, but one member considered, however, that the only plausible explanation was that it was a nazi salute.
Luckily for Hennessey certain majority, and the commission report concludes that the keeper is ’a good person, who has neither the tendency to discriminate or make offensive or inappropriate things’.
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