Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/pqS0mLFA to probe Crystal Palace keeper Wayne Hennessey’s ‘Nazi salute’. The FA launched an inquiry on Monday into Crystal Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey’s apparent Nazi salute on a team night out.
The Wales No 1 appeared to make the controversial gesture in a photo posted on social media by German team-mate Max Meyer.
Other members of the Palace squad can be seen in the shot, taken at a dinner on Saturday night after the FA Cup third-round victory at home to Grimsby.
Meyer posted the picture on an Instagram story, which disappear after 24 hours.
Hennessey, 31, denied on Monday he was making a Nazi salute, insisting he was merely waving and shouting at the picture-taker.
However, the FA are looking into the matter and Hennessey could be charged by English football’s governing body.
Even though the incident occurred away from the field, disciplinary chiefs can still take action against Hennessey. Palace refused to comment on Monday but they are likely to open their own investigation.
Denying the accusations, Hennessey posted on his Twitter account: ‘Yesterday evening I had a meal with my team-mates and we had a group photograph.
‘I waved and shouted at the person taking the picture to get on with it and at the same time put my hand over my mouth to make the sound carry.
‘It’s been brought to my attention that, frozen in a moment by the camera, this looks like I am making a completely inappropriate type of salute.
‘I can assure everyone I would never do that and any resemblance to that kind of gesture is absolutely coincidental.’