its decisions. The main punishment for the three clubs was reduced to points-deduction. Željo, Hajduk, and Trešnjevka were docked 6, 5, and 5 points, respectively. All of the individual punishments for players and club management members were upheld. Aftermath As a result of having 6 points docked and missing two of their best players for most of the 1965-66 season, Željezničar spent the majority of the league campaign in a desperate fight to avoid relegation. Towards the end of the season, for the deciding league matches in Željo's survival fight, their star player Ivica Osim had his ban lifted by the FSJ ahead of its expiration. In the second last week of the season on 12 June 1966, Osim's goal at Radnički Niš in a 0–1 away win in Niš effectively kept Željo in the First League. Over the decades since, Planinić's motivation to become a whistleblower has been aggressively questioned by journalists close to the punished clubs. After he blew the whistle, the tone and framing of press write-ups referencing Planinić in various Sarajevo and Split-based print media outlets ranged from dismissing his claims outright to insults, insinuations and speculation about his decision to come forward being made out of spite, hurt ego, or personal vendetta against his club because supposedly his summer 1965 off-season contract negotiations with FK Željezničar stalled or because he had lost the starting position in Željezničar's goal to teammate Vasilije Radović. League table Results Winning squad Champions: FK VOJVODINA (coach: Branko Stanković) players (league matches/league goals): Silvester Takač (30/13) Vasa Pušibrk (30/2) Ilija Pantelić (30/0) -goalkeeper- Vladimir Savić (29/5) Žarko Nikolić (29/4) Ivan Brzić (29/0) Stevan Sekereš (29/0) Dobrivoje Trivić (28/7) Mladen Vučinić (26/0) Đorđe Pavlić (18/8) Stevan Nestički (17/0) Dimitrije Radović (16/1) Radivoj Radosav (12/4) Adolf Lambi (8/2) Veljko Aleksić (4/0) Đorđe Milić (3/1) Tonče Stamevski (3/0) Rajko Aleksić (2/0) Branislav Veljković (1/0)-goalkeeper- Anđelko Marinković (1/0) Dragan Surdučki (1/0) Source: Top scorers See also 1965–66 Yugoslav Second League 1965–66 Yugoslav Cup References External links Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables Yugoslav First League seasons Yugo 1965–66 in Yugoslav football