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Club grilled, facing sanctions over 'criminal' invasion - CtrlF.XYZ

Club grilled, facing sanctions over 'criminal' invasion

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The Melbourne Victory person been fixed a Wednesday greeting deadline to reason wherefore they shouldn't beryllium deed with "serious sanctions" in the aftermath of Saturday night's transportation invasion astatine AAMI Park.

In a amusement origin issued to the nine connected Monday morning, Football Australia said the sanctions could see fines, the docking of contention points, oregon playing matches either down closed doors oregon astatine neutral venues.

Melbourne City goalkeeper Tom Glover, lucifer referee Alex King and a Channel 10 camera relation were each injured successful the invasion, which occurred astatine the 20-minute people of the A-League Melbourne derby betwixt the Victory and City.

In different A-League matches implicit the weekend, fans took portion successful a walkout connected the 20-minute people successful protestation of the Australian Professional Leagues' determination to participate into a three-year declaration with the New South Wales authorities to big the men's and women's expansive finals successful Sydney.

Speaking connected Nine's TODAY connected Monday morning, APL main enforcement Danny Townsend described those who took portion arsenic "criminals".

"We had 11 shot matches implicit the weekend, 10 of which allowed peaceful protests ... that's portion of the contented of football, fans person a voice," helium said.

"They did truthful successful a respectful manner. We listened and we absorbed those protests, (but the transportation invasion) was not a protest. This was criminality.

"We person to marque definite our crippled isn't utilized to camouflage criminals into the future."

APL main enforcement Danny Townsend speaks to TODAY

When asked if determination would beryllium immoderate reconsideration of the deal, Townsend said the APL would "take banal of information points", but wouldn't fto the events of Saturday nighttime "cloud judgement".

He said the penetration and the protests had to beryllium viewed separately.

"What happened connected Saturday was wholly antithetic - it was not linked astatine all. The peaceful protests crossed the different clubs were perfectly a reflection of that decision, 1 we volition enactment with those protagonist groups implicit the adjacent week to proceed to hear.

"Football fans emotion football. And what happened connected Saturday nighttime was not a reflection of radical who emotion football."

Football Australia said they would proceed to enactment with Victoria Police, and would besides find the result of the lucifer itself and the allocation of contention points.

Police person issued photos of a fig of radical who they privation to talk to.

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