WIEN
- The Austrian Bundesliga Football Federation Disciplinary Committee has obliged Wien SK Rapid sports director Lothar Matthà us to pay a fine of 30 000 shillings (4300 marks) for multiple spillover from a coaching zone during the match against SV Austria Salzburg. It is worth mentioning that after the unfortunate for the champion year 1990, when the referee of the match dispatched Matthà us to the tribune because of the verbal squabble with the linesman,
Salzburg`s managers blamed the Rapid instructor in racism. On the Salzburg bench it could be heard how Matthà us squabbled the Honduras legionary of Salzburg as "swarthy pig". However, during the Disciplinary Committee meeting these charges were not confirmed.
"I consider my behavior non-sportingly, for which I was justly fined. The verdict made by the Committee also confirms my innocence,"- said the German record-holder international after the meeting.
