Melbourne City goalkeeper Tom Glover is set to get back to the field interestingly since being crushed in the face with a container during the now notorious A-Association derby against Triumph.
After Melbourne Victory fans stormed the pitch at AAMI Park on December 17, the 25-year-old suffered a serious facial laceration that required stitches and left him with a concussion.
The derby had to be called off, it was dubbed the "darkest day in Australian football," and the man who attacked Glover was one of the people charged by the police.
After being smashed in the face with a metal bucket full of sand during the violent Melbourne derby pitch invasion earlier this month, Tom Glover needed stitches and was concussed. His teammates and club officials had to get him off the field. Glover will be between the sticks for Melbourne City when they play Central Coast Mariners on Tuesday. Coach Rado Vidosic has confirmed that Glover has passed concussion protocols.
‘Tommy missed the first few training sessions (last week) because of concussion and came back and trained in the last two training sessions,’ Vidosic told News Corp.
‘He had a lot of support from the players and everyone around him here at the training sessions and he looks back to his normal (self).’
When Glover was struck by the metal bucket, which was filled with sand at the time and was meant to, ironically, distinguish flares, the scenes when he reeled away were barely believable.
The youthful goalkeeper had a flare tossed toward him, and tossed it back in the stands - provoking the generally rambunctious fans into totally turmoil, with an expected 150 individuals surging onto the pitch and tossing objects.
‘He (Glover) trained really well, and we hope that everything is fine with him, but we’ll find out a little bit more (on Tuesday night) once he starts the game,’ Vidosic said.
‘It very sad moment for everyone involved in football. You kind of only see that on the TV but to be in the front row when something like that happens, it has got even a bigger impact on people.’
While Vidosic was pleased that Glover had recovered from his stitches and concussion from the pitch invasion, he warned that it had been a very traumatic experience.
Police captured this individual, presently nicknamed 'Pail Man' after he conveyed the metal container brimming with sand onto the pitch during the derby
Football Australia (FA) and Australian Expert Associations, who runs the A-Association, have not yet declared what will befall the installation, and whether the City will be granted the success.
FA gave over the main round of approvals over the viciousness with the Triumph restricted from offering passes to home games, with just pre-tagged individuals permitted to join in. Numerous arrests have also been made by police.
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