{"id":14829,"date":"2017-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/afl-great-involved-in-incident-at-junior-footy-match\/"},"modified":"2017-06-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T00:00:00","slug":"afl-great-involved-in-incident-at-junior-footy-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/afl-great-involved-in-incident-at-junior-footy-match\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL great involved in incident at junior footy match"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>UPDATE, 11.07am &#8212; Archer makes statement.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>North Melbourne has released a statement from Glenn Archer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI would like to apologise unreservedly for my involvement in what transpired at a junior football match in Heidelberg on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJumping the fence to defend a player was inappropriate and unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident that occurred several minutes later with the opposition team\u2019s runner was also unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to reinforce that under no circumstances should spectators or parents intervene in any on-field matters with players or officials, at any level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI regret my initial decision to enter the field of play and acknowledge it was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will fully cooperate with the Yarra Junior Football League if it investigates the matter further.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>EARLIER&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>North Melbourne premiership champ Glenn Archer has been accused of assaulting a runner at a junior footy match in Melbourne on Sunday.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3aw.com.au\/ex-afl-player-allegedly-caught-up-junior-football-match-incident\/\">3AW reports that Archer<\/a> has confirmed he was involved after police were alerted to an incident at an oval at about 3.55pm.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTwo-time North Melbourne premiership player Glenn Archer admits he was involved in some \u2018push and shove\u2019 at an under-15 match at Heidelberg on Sunday,\u201d 3AW reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he says no punches were thrown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former North Melbourne defender, who is now on the Kangaroos&nbsp;board, confirmed to Ross and John he left the scene before police were called.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/adelaide-crows-under-the-pump-following-hawthorn-loss\"><strong>CROWS UNDER THE PUMP FOLLOWING HAWTHORN LOSS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/fitzy-drops-the-brutal-truth-about-the-adelaide-crows\"><strong>FITZY DROPS THE BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT THE ADELAIDE CROWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE, 11.07am &#8212; Archer makes statement. North Melbourne has released a statement from Glenn Archer: \u201cI would like to apologise unreservedly for my involvement in what transpired at a junior football match in Heidelberg on Sunday. \u201cJumping the fence to defend a player was inappropriate and unacceptable. \u201cThe incident that occurred several minutes later with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-14829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AFL great involved in incident at junior footy match - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/afl-great-involved-in-incident-at-junior-footy-match\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFL great involved in incident at junior footy match\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UPDATE, 11.07am &#8212; Archer makes statement. 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