A suburban Perth football club has been suspended from its league for two years after a "severe breach" of integrity standards, following an end-of-season costume stunt that left City of Stirling workers distressed.

Osborne Park Football Club will be unable to compete for two seasons, the Perth Football League announced today.

Players from the club held a "silly Sunday" celebration in August, with one player's costume depicting the late physicist Dr Hawking, who suffered from motor neuron disease and spent much of his life in a wheelchair.

City of Stirling Mayor Mark Irwin claimed the costume involved "a gaming chair set-up, with screens … with images photocopied depicting child pornography".

Mr Irwin said city staff attended the clubrooms, in Robinson Reserve in Tuart Hill, for an ins

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