1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: Is there a risk that we are not just fostering 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: football fans but also a bit of hurligan culture in 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: New Zealand? Did you see this? At the weekend? Orkanley 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Sea fans and fans of the Western Sydney Wanderers threw 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: cans at each other after the game and during the game, 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: and there were children in the stands. A forty six 7 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: year old has been arrested for an alleged assault, which 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: resulted in an Australian man requiring facial surgery. Several children 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: were reported to have been just meters from some of 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: the beer cans that were thrown. Nick Becker is the 11 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: AUK and f CEO with me tonight. 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 2: Hi Nick Eden Ryan, how are you? Yeah? 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: Good? Thank you? So is this all getting out of 14 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: control or is this a one off? How do you 15 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: say it? 16 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 2: I think it's definitely a one off. 17 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 3: You know, we're obviously extremely disappointed about what happened, but 18 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 3: then we do see it as a very isolated incident. 19 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 3: You know, we've had up until yesterday, well sorry Saturday, 20 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 3: we had eleven games, over two hundred thousand Orkan f 21 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 3: C fans through the door and no one's like this. 22 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 3: So unfortunate that incredibly unfortunately it happened, and certainly we're 23 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 3: going to take the appropriate actions to get the person 24 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 3: banned who was involved in the in the fight that 25 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 3: ended up with the gentleman guinea of broken jaw. But 26 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 3: we're incredibly disappointed with that going on. But it's certainly 27 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 3: not reflective of what happens at our home games. 28 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 1: And from where from the stadium yep, So. 29 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 2: He'll be banned. So he's been arrested the police. 30 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 3: It's at least for prosecution deside of what they want 31 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 3: to do and then but we've already agreed with the 32 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 3: stadium that he'll have a two year banning from the stadium. 33 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: And is this a key with is this an auklative 34 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: C fan? 35 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 3: As we understand it, it was an incident involved one 36 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 3: of the away fans and one of the home fans. 37 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 2: Correct. We don't have any details on the guy. 38 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: Right, so you don't know whether he's one of your 39 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: fans or whether he's one of theirs. Because the guy 40 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: was hurt was Australian, right, so you kin't of assume, correct. 41 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 3: So I know there's definitely it was definitely a home 42 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 3: and away fan incident. 43 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: Right, so it was it was an Auckland f C 44 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: fan salts in Australian. 45 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, but we don't call them an organ f C fan. 46 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 3: Was that's certainly not what we're about. You know, we're 47 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 3: a club that has you know, we're proudly built up a. 48 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 2: Very family friendly environment. 49 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 3: We've we've got a great set of hardcore fans known 50 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 3: as the port who I think do everyone in football and. 51 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 2: Everyone in Auckland proud. And it's certainly not one of them. 52 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 3: It's not someone that they would associate with, and it's 53 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 3: definitely not someone that we want involved now. 54 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,839 Speaker 1: Just a loser who went too far? And what absolutely 55 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: so what about what about the cans? Because I saw 56 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: I watched a video and I saw kids sitting there 57 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: and someone's throwing cans and I'm thinking, you know what 58 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: a dropcake? But are you allowed cans in the in 59 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: the stadium? 60 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 2: There's very good question. 61 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 3: I believe you can buy an open can from from 62 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 3: the concessions. But yeah, that sort of behavior is really 63 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 3: disappointing and and it's sort of it's one that will 64 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 3: certainly review and reconsider where we put when there's large 65 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 3: groups of of traveling fans. Certainly ones that come from 66 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 3: a club that has had a reputation for some anti 67 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 3: social baby from their fan group. We will look to 68 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 3: kind of really lock that down a lot more than 69 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 3: we did on Saturday, and I guess we take that 70 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 3: as a huge learning and to move forward. 71 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: All right, Nick, nice to have you on the program. 72 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 1: That's Nick Becker from Auckland FC. He's the chief executive. 73 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 2: For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive. Listen live to 74 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: news talks. 75 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast 76 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.