Australia football violence: 'My heart sank after highs of World Cup'
Australian football has been dove into disturbance this week following brutality at a derby match between two of its greatest clubs. Melbourne City goalkeeper Thomas Glover was left with blood spilling down his face after he was supposedly hit with a metal pail during a pitch intrusion by fans on Saturday. In a couple of turbulent minutes, the warm shine cast by Australia's brave World Cup crusade - in which the Socceroos arrived at the last 16 - had blurred. "It was simply nauseating. I was shocked," Francis Awaritefe, the seat of Expert Footballers Australia, told the BBC. "My heart sank on the grounds that after the highs of the World Cup where the Australian group performed so well and united the country, it was very miserable." What had begun as a dissent by fans against a choice to fix custom and move to Sydney the excellent finals of the public people's rivalries slipped into an uncontrolled scuffle at AAMI Park as Melbourne Triumph took on rivals Me...