{"id":24986,"date":"2026-01-24T20:42:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/livingston-to-report-aberdeen-over-alleged-racial-abuse-of-bokila\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:42:58","slug":"livingston-to-report-aberdeen-over-alleged-racial-abuse-of-bokila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/livingston-to-report-aberdeen-over-alleged-racial-abuse-of-bokila\/","title":{"rendered":"Livingston to report Aberdeen over alleged racial abuse of Bokila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Livingston will contact the Scottish FA to report Aberdeen over an alleged racial comment made to striker Jeremy Bokila.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following Livingston&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c77kz2drgx4t\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">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\">BBC Scotland has approached Aberdeen for comment.<\/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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c3wzl2lvzq5o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Livingston will contact the Scottish FA to report Aberdeen over an alleged racial comment made to striker Jeremy Bokila. Following Livingston&#8217;s 6-2 defeat by Aberdeen 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. It is understood the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24988,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986\/revisions\/24988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}