{"id":228234,"date":"2025-06-02T17:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=228234"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:20:57","slug":"hooligan-behaviour-called-out-as-flares-before-a-league-grand-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=228234","title":{"rendered":"Hooligan behaviour called out as flares before A-League grand final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victoria Police have called out the hooligan behaviour of some football fans on the streets of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> before last night&#8217;s A-League grand final clash between rival clubs, Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities said an officer had been assaulted \ufeffand taken to hospital with minor injuries, while others had flares thrown at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Police are disappointed with the behaviour of some of the crowd in Swan Street, Richmond, prior to last night&#8217;s A-League grand final,&#8221; a statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In what should have been an exciting and vibrant night for our Melbourne soccer community, we saw a number of flares being thrown towards police members and amongst the crowd as supporters gathered in Swan Street before making their way to AAMI Park.&#8221;\ufeff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have said there is an ongoing investigation into the incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of the night, four penalty notices for possess lit firework and one penalty notice for riotous behaviour were issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of the night, four penalty notices for possess lit firework and one penalty notice for riotous behaviour were issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":228235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[16909,993,16908,8],"class_list":["post-228234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-a-league","tag-melbourne","tag-soccer","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228236,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228234\/revisions\/228236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}