WATCH: New vision of AFL official punching player behind play
As the future of one AFL senior official hangs in the balance, new footage of him being involved in another brutal on-field attack has emerged.
Ali Fahour's violent history in local football has come to light in a separate piece of vision from earlier this season, following an on-field king hit caught on tape this past weekend.
The recently surfaced video shows the AFL's diversity manager strike an opponent behind the play, an offence he received a three-match suspension for.
He will face the AFL tribunal again on Wednesday night, this time for his much publicised "coward punch" on young father Dale Saddlington during a match on Saturday.
Pending the outcome of the hearing, Fahour could be sacked, sued or charged.
If a player accumulates a total of 16 weeks of suspension over their career it leads to a lifetime ban and Fahour is already on seven.
However his amateur playing career is not top of the agenda at the moment but it could become an important factor.
If Fahour is deemed unsafe to play local football, there are serious questions about how he could continue in an executive level job with the AFL.
On Tuesday, Ben Davis from Radio 4BC told Sunrise he doesn’t know why the matter is being put before the AFL tribunal first, insisting Fahour should be sacked immediately.
“I don't know why they even need a tribunal, the vision’s there, we know exactly what happened,” Davis told Sunrise host Sam Armytage.
“He cannot hold the job that he holds now, that is one thing for certain.
“As a manager of a program in the AFL, his presence is now going to overshadow that program... there needs to be consequences for actions.”
The AFL will make no comment until after the tribunal hearing, but chief executive Gillon McLachlan and other executives are known to be furious at Fahour.
The tribunal will gather on Wednesday night to decide Fahour's immediate playing future.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said seeing the AFL Diversity Manager punching another player in the head in a local footy game is "totally unacceptable".
AFL employee Ali Fahour was caught on video punching another player during a suburban football game on Saturday.
"That sort of the behaviour is totally unacceptable, in footy, everywhere really," Premier Daniel Andrews told reporters on Tuesday.
"There's no acceptable place, on the football field or off for that sort of conduct.
"I think most fair minded Victorians know there's no place in our game or in our community for that sort of behaviour."
