Not surprisingly, the House Of Pain is on Nasty Street....
A MAN attacked a bus carrying Melbourne football players from Subiaco Oval to Perth airport after the game on Sunday.
Police are investigating the apparent road rage incident which is believed to have occurred after the bus overtook a line of stationary vehicles.
Traffic at the ground was at a standstill and it is believed the team was on a tight timetable to meet its return flight.
Managing director of the bus company David Van Kuyl said a window was shattered by the force of the offender's punch.
The man who threw the punch cut his hand, spraying blood over the side of the bus.
"He came running down the side of the coach, jumped in front and punched the window," Mr Van Kuyl said.
Hope it hurt.
Hey Tony, see how restrained I am? All yesterday I was itching to mention, all casual like, the big game. But I resisted and I conquered.
What winners we west coasters are.
Now for the upstart Dockers.
Posted by: os | 08/26/2003 at 10:58 AM
The guy must have thought he saw the umpires board the bus.
Posted by: Uncreative Tim | 08/26/2003 at 03:06 PM
I'd attack a busload of Melbourne players too this year.
Posted by: Adam | 08/26/2003 at 05:25 PM
I'd be very afraid of a bloke who's hard enough to take on a bus, it wasn't Yosser Hughers by any chance ?
Posted by: Mike | 08/26/2003 at 06:00 PM
Tim, it doesn't stand to reason. An Eags supporter would have been pretty happy with the umps, his team won the game AND the free-kick count was heavily in the Eags' favour.
Nope, imo he saw it was the Dees and the 'ol red mist just took over.
Posted by: os | 08/26/2003 at 06:04 PM
And anyway, everyone likes umps. Right? Er, right?
Posted by: Gareth | 08/26/2003 at 11:52 PM
Os - Yes. Very restrained. You should be.
Unca Tim - Sunday was a very ordinary day for the Demons. 11/1 at half time. It would have been 17/4 at the end save for three in the last four minutes.
Adam - Never!
Mike - Who's Yosser Hughers? He didn't write that book about football thugs, did he? You know? That crazy guy from Carlisle and his maties?
Os - Nope. Eagles fans are becoming like Richmond fans. Angry when they lose. But even angrier when they win because they brood on all the ones they should have won.
Gaz - We love umps here. Especially Melbourne fans. We never ever ever ever get a rough deal. We especially love Umpire Dean Margetts. Who's probably related to one of the gum-nut senators. Christy-bop or Dee-dee. Or whatever they were called. Are they dead yet?
Posted by: Tony.T | 08/27/2003 at 01:14 PM
There's a nice story in John Eales' book of the last Wallaby tour South Africa.
The Wallabies had just beaten the Boks at Durban or Capetown or some such godforsaken place.
As the Wallaby coach left the stadium, a crazy yarpie burst out of the crowd, ran up to the coach, bashed the window and snarled,"you might have beaten sarth efrica, but you won't beat TRANSVAAL".
I didn't see the game, but heard it in the car and Margetts got a real bake from Wally Foreman, one of those holding/not holding decisions in the forward line. At one end someone breathed on an Eag ... free kick, goal. At the other end Neitz gets his jumper remodelled and Margetts called play on. Bloody Dee Margetts ... can you believe that woman got into the Legislative Council on preferences, but didn't even get enough primary votes to get her deposit back?
Eagles fans like Richmond fans? That cuts deep Tony, very deep.
Posted by: os | 08/28/2003 at 11:55 AM
Guess winning the game wasn't enough, huh? Well, I'd like to know what he told the Doc at emergency when he showed up to get stiched. "Oh, Doc, my girlfriend from Melbourne did it..."
Posted by: Rob de Santos | 08/28/2003 at 01:41 PM
Those Yarpies invented fat-feral.
I listened to Wally on the rayjo too. Bit disappoined he didn't fire up about one of the frees Cheater Matera got. And at one point he seemed to think the Eags were hard done by, but at least he gave Margetts a bake.
"Eagles fans like Richmond fans?" I've lived there Os. It's harsh. But fair.
And Rob, I hear his girlfriend was nearly as good looking as the bus.
Posted by: Tony.T | 08/28/2003 at 02:29 PM
You didn't live in the gentle and civilised south, you lived in Yobbostan on a road never crossed 'cept by folk who are lost. And those people support the Dockers.
Posted by: os | 08/28/2003 at 02:59 PM
True, but I also lived in Claremont. Home of the yuppie Eagles fans. Unsavoury. You shouldn't drink red wine at the football.
Posted by: Tony.T | 08/28/2003 at 03:06 PM
Tony,
So that's why he hit the bus...
OK, I take that back. The Political Correctness police will get me for that one.
Posted by: Rob de Santos | 08/30/2003 at 01:10 PM