Fulham and Northern Ireland striker David Healy will be investigated by not only his club Fulham, but also the Irish Footaball Association after his pretending to play the flute after coming on as a substitute during Fulham’s 3-1 win over Glasgow Celtic.

Although apologizing immediately after the match, Healy’s flute playing gesture riled up the 11,000 Celtic supporters in attendance due to the nature of the incident, symbolic of the flute-playing of Orange Order marchers which is highly offensive to Roman Catholics.

Paul Gascoigne pulled the flute imitation out during the famous 1998 Old Firm match at Parkhead. The gesture infuriated the Celtic home crowd as Gazza was fined 20,000 Pound and had his life threatened by the IRA.

Healy (a notorious Glasgow Rangers fan who even attended the Uefa Cup Final in Manchester as a supporter) has played just over 65 times for Northern Ireland, which falls under the Irish FA’s ruling and is the countries top scorer with 34 goals.

Via SkySports

He told Ulster Television: “I am supposed to be a role model and I can only apologise, I can guarantee from my point of view it will never happen again.”

“It was one of those regrettable incidents that somebody said something and I made a silly gesture which ultimately I regret.”

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