{"id":388837,"date":"2026-01-25T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388837\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:37:08","slug":"livingston-to-report-aberdeen-over-alleged-racial-abuse-of-jeremy-bokila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388837\/","title":{"rendered":"Livingston to report Aberdeen over alleged racial abuse of Jeremy Bokila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Livingston will contact the Scottish FA to report Aberdeen over an alleged racial comment made to striker Jeremy Bokila.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following Livingston&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c77kz2drgx4t\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-2 defeat by Aberdeen<\/a> at Pittodrie on Saturday, manager David Martindale said 37-year-old Bokila was in tears in the changing room after a comment made to him on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood the alleged comment was of a racial nature and came amid a second-half melee that resulted in Bokila being sent off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the match, Martindale said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a 37-year-old striker in there crying, so I&#8217;ll need to go and try and get to the bottom of that one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, Aberdeen say: &#8220;The club is aware of an allegation that racist language was used during today&#8217;s match with Livingston FC at Pittodrie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The player concerned has been informed of the allegation and vehemently denies it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Aberdeen FC condemns any and all forms of discrimination and we will co-operate fully with all relevant authorities during any investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While this process is ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Livingston will contact the Scottish FA to report Aberdeen over an alleged racial comment made to striker Jeremy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-388837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}