Any ideas who the other two might be??
Rumour has it that a certain Swan who had a shocker in the GF might be the next one put on a plane early...
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=157741
Irish bar staff accuse two other Aussies
Wednesday Nov 1 19:54 AEDT
The AFL's international embarrassment over the Brendan Fevola scandal has deepened, with allegations two other players as well as the disgraced Carlton star threatened staff at an Irish nightclub.
And Fevola questioned the AFL's decision to boot him out of Australia's International Rules series in Ireland after he allegedly assaulted a barman while drunk in Galway on Sunday night.
The barman who accuses Fevola of assault on Wednesday claimed the AFL star:
* Jumped him while carrying a bottle in his hand, before another staff member prised the bottle from the intoxicated Carlton forward;
* Punched him and had to be restrained repeatedly by other Australian team members;
* Was one of three Australian players who threatened junior bar staff;
* Should have criminal charges laid against him and should not have been allowed to leave Ireland.
"I feared for my face - I thought he was going to hit me in the face with the bottle," the barman, who wanted to be known only as Paul, told Melbourne radio station SEN.
"It was one punch ... it kind of clipped my cheek. If he'd have hit me properly, I wouldn't be talking to you now."
Fevola, now in Europe, has denied hitting the barman but admits putting him in a headlock.
Fevola risked further AFL sanctions by questioning the disciplinary committee's decision to send him home, and expressed surprise at the furore his actions had caused.
"I thought it was pretty harsh. They have to look like they're doing something, I suppose," Fevola told the Nine Network.
"I just can't believe that I'm not playing for my country and I've let them down and obviously my country as well, so it was pretty shattering."
In a new twist, the barman dragged two other unnamed Australian players into the row, saying they and Fevola made threats to junior bar staff before the Carlton star allegedly assaulted him.
But the barman stressed neither of the other two players was involved in the physical altercation.
"They threatened my junior bar staff. I made the decision to refuse them drinks, and they got very aggressive, threatening me," Paul said.
"I warned them if they didn't calm down then I'd have to call the police.
"They went on ... a lot of `F' words towards us and I said `okay, I'm going to have to call the police'.
"As I left the bar ... this Brendan guy followed me out and as I was on the phone to the police, he jumped me in reception and grabbed me in a headlock, and he had a bottle in his hand.
"The rest of the team came running out and they grabbed him and pulled him off me."
The barman said Fevola made further attempts to attack him and had to be repeatedly held back by teammates.
The incident involving the barman was captured on closed circuit television footage, which police are using in their investigations.
Asked if he wanted to press charges, Paul said: "I will indeed, yes."
But he said police had been unable to tell him whether charges would proceed.
"If it was anybody else that made that assault they would have to appear in court either on the Monday or the Wednesday and he's been allowed just to leave the country, which I don't understand."
It is believed the CCTV footage was shown to Australian team officials, including coach Kevin Sheedy and AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson.
Both were part of the disciplinary committee which banished Fevola.
Fevola is now somewhere in Europe - with his wife Alex saying he was likely to wait for the storm surrounding the incident to blow over before returning to Australia.
Carlton, which starts pre-season training next week, said it would wait until Fevola returned home before deciding whether to further punish him.
The incident almost certainly destroys Fevola's ambition to be Carlton captain next year.
Fevola's ejection adds a new element of farce to the AFL's recent attempts to take the game internationally.
Last month's exhibition match in London between Geelong and Port Adelaide was marred by several streakers, with the game eventually cut short.
And the opening International Rules Test in Ireland featured several wildly-dressed pitch invaders and a post-siren stampede by hundreds of fans which led to Australian criticism of Irish security standards.
