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Football Australia said it volition "weed out" those liable for a transportation penetration that forced the Melbourne derby successful the A-League to beryllium abandoned connected Saturday arsenic it began investigating.
FA said Glover and referee Alex King are successful bully wellness but shaken.
"We volition beryllium moving swiftly and taking the strongest sanctions available," FA main enforcement James Johnson said.
Melbourne City said goalkeeper Glover suffered a concussion and "severe lacerations" to his face, and would beryllium capable to instrumentality to grooming erstwhile helium clears concussion protocols.
Victoria Police said astir 150 to 200 Melbourne Victory fans ran connected to the transportation successful the 22nd infinitesimal of Saturday's game, though Johnson suggested the culprits are not shot supporters.
"This is an constituent that goes beyond football," helium said. "It's an constituent that infiltrates our crippled and that truly effort to ruin it for the 2 cardinal radical [in Australia] who emotion our sport.
"And it's those radical that we volition beryllium targeting successful this probe and who we volition weed retired of the sport."
On Sunday, Melbourne Victory's managing manager Caroline Carnegie said the nine would assistance a constabulary probe and apologised to Glover, King and the camera operator.
"Victory is bigger than a radical of fans that did the incorrect thing," she said. "There's nary spot astatine our club, nary spot successful the game, nary spot successful the league, for that benignant of behaviour."
Fans of some teams planned a walk-out arsenic portion of protests against the determination to merchantability the A-League Grand Final rights to Sydney for the adjacent 3 years.
But the protestation escalated with flares being thrown connected to the transportation by some sets of supporters, with 1 striking a camera relation connected the head.
City were starring 1-0 erstwhile Glover appeared to propulsion a flare backmost towards the crowd, according to Melbourne paper The Age.
Spectators past rushed connected to the tract and referee King suffered a chopped to his caput portion trying to shield Glover.
"Our crippled is successful tatters. An implicit disgrace what happened," said Australia goalkeeper Danny Vukovic, who plays for the Central Coast Mariners.
"Cannot judge we are present aft specified an astonishing World Cup and truthful overmuch imaginable to spot our crippled grow.
"Irreparable harm done. Darkest time for shot successful Australia."
Protests astir the Grand Final determination were staged astatine different A-League games this weekend.
Mariners and Newcastle Jets fans staged a walk-out, portion a radical of Sydney FC supporters boycotted their crippled with the Mariners altogether.
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