Victory star Nani was surrounded by almost 20 police as he entered AAMI Stadium and officers patrolled along Olympic Boulevard before the club’s first A-League Men’s match since last Saturday night’s violent pitch invasion.
The FA asked all clubs during the week to actively encourage fans not to breach the bans or market tickets to desperate Victory fans.In the stadium, the Victory’s active end was covered in a tarp and the first five rows of seats at both ends of the ground were blocked off and covered with a crowd of a few thousands fans scattered around the stadium as kick-off approached.
Glover is expected to take his place in the side against Central Coast Mariners at AAMI Park on Tuesday night after he was concussed and suffered a cut to the head after a bucket of sand was allegedly thrown at him during the pitch invasion.with violent disorder, discharge missile, intent to cause injury, recklessly cause injury, unlawful assault, entry to sporting competition space, disrupting a match, public nuisance and riotous behaviour for the incident.
“Tommy missed the first few training sessions with a concussion but he has trained the last two sessions and he is good to go,” Vidosic said on Monday.“He had a lot of support from players and everyone around him here and he looks back to his normal self. “He trained really well and we hope everything is fine with him but we will find out a little bit more tomorrow once he starts the game.”
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