Already booted from its Tuart Hill clubhouse, the Osborne Park Football Club has now been suspended from the Perth Football League as the fallout from a controversial “Silly Sunday” costume continues.

The City of Stirling made the rare move to evict the club from its headquarters last month after a player dressed as the late physicist Stephen Hawking for its end-of-season celebrations.

An Osborne Park Football Club player dressed as Stephen Hawking.

The player’s outfit included a wheelchair and mocked-up electronic communication system, including a fake pornography site which insinuated Hawking was viewing child exploitation material.

Stirling Mayor Mark Irwin said the club had “a pattern of poor form and poor behaviour”, and said city employees who discovered the outfit while cleaning

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