Police investigation is ongoing, though no arrests had been reported by Sunday, while pitch invaders face possible lifetime bans
Football Australia has vowed to take strong and swift action with harsh punishments after an A-League soccer match between rivals Melbourne City and Melbourne Victory was abandoned Saturday after fans invaded the field and attacked City goalkeeper Tom Glover.
“We will be moving swiftly and we will be taking the strongest sanctions that are available,” FA chief executive James Johnson told reporters on Sunday. “This is an element that goes beyond football. It’s an element that infiltrates our game and that really try to ruin it for the two million people that love our sport.
A Victoria state police investigation is ongoing, though no arrests had been reported by Sunday, while pitch invaders face possible lifetime bans. Both sets of fans had been throwing flares on the field but the situation escalated when a flare appeared to hit a television cameraman. Glover later picked up another flare off the ground and threw it back into the stands.
“I think last night shows us that we’ve come to a point in time where what we’ve been doing probably hasn’t been as successful as we’d like and we just can’t condone what went on.
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