Injured goalie breaks silence after hospital trip

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Melbourne City goalkeeper Tom Glover has voiced his disappointment with being caught up successful the 'please explain' handed to Melbourne Victory aft Saturday's convulsive transportation penetration astatine AAMI Park.

Glover was taken to infirmary with a concussion and "severe lacerations" aft being struck with a metallic bucket arsenic spectators stormed the transportation astatine the 20-minute people of the A-League Men's Melbourne derby. He was released from infirmary connected Sunday morning.

Speaking extracurricular City grooming connected Monday, with the chopped connected his close cheekbone bandaged, Glover said helium was disappointed to beryllium progressive successful the affair.

"Obviously it's disappointing for football, but I'm OK," helium said.

"It's the incident, but much for Australian shot itself.

"The Socceroos were unbelievable (at the World Cup) and you cognize (football was) hopefully riding the question of that - but a tiny number ruins it."

Asked if helium would beryllium pursuing up the probe into the assault, Glover said he would permission it with the Police to handle.

"The constabulary probe is doing its thing. For me it's getting backmost connected the transportation and being acceptable for adjacent week," helium said.

Fans from some Melbourne clubs threw flares onto the transportation during the archetypal fractional of the match, but erstwhile Glover hurled a flare backmost into the Victory fans country astatine the bluish end, it triggered a radical of spectators to unit their mode onto the transportation and beeline for the 24-year-old.

Glover said helium did not mean to propulsion the flare backmost into the crowd.

"My intentions were ne'er to propulsion it implicit the fence," helium said.

On Sunday, Football Australia bosses stated they had not ruled retired sanctioning Glover for threatening spectators with the flare.

At the opposing end, Victory goalkeeper Paul Izzo collected the flares thrown successful his absorption adjacent to the goal, extracurricular the tract of play.

In different matches crossed the weekend, fans staged a peaceful locomotion retired astatine the 20-minute people of games successful protestation of the Australian Professional Leagues' decision to grant the hosting rights of the A-Leagues' expansive finals to Sydney.

On Monday day Victoria Police confirmed 3 men had been charged, with much expected to follow.

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