The yob footballer who was filmed hurling a chair at a lady’s face throughout a shameful Ibiza poolside brawl has accused the sufferer of taking place ‘simply’ however revealed he feels ‘horrible’ and ‘apologetic’ after ‘by accident hitting’ her.
Oldham Athletic striker Kian Harratt, 23, was seen launching the furnishings within the path of a middle-aged girl who was attempting to interrupt up a brawl between his buddies and one other group of Brit holidaymakers.
After being hit the girl collapses to the bottom holding her face whereas the opposite group fall into the pool and topless Harratt, solely recognized by MailOnline, retreats out of shot.
Because the video has been shared on-line on Sunday it has been reposted by the League Two footballer who has additionally shared numerous snaps of himself on vacation on the Spanish island.
Harrat has now damaged his silence on the fracas, alleging that he ‘by accident hit’ the girl after throwing a chair again which had first been ‘lobbed in direction of’ him.
Whereas admitting he was ‘very apologetic and ‘felt horrible’, the striker accused the girl of going ‘down a bit simple’ and stated he would have felt ‘even worse’ if he allowed his mate to ‘get badly crushed up whereas he is attempting to get pleasure from his vacation’.
Oldham’s Kian Harratt was filmed throwing a chair within the path of a lady at an Ibiza resort
The girl was left mendacity immobile on the bottom as a number of bystanders attended to her
Harratt, 23, performs for Oldham and just lately stated he was trying ahead to a ‘little celebration in Ibiza’
Harrat, who scored the profitable aim at Wembley to safe Oldham’s place in League 2 simply three weeks in the past, additionally claimed his group had merely been concerned within the brawl after responding to a ‘huge bully’ who allegedly made individuals on the pool really feel uncomfortable.
He stated tensions had risen after his eighteen-year-old good friend splashed the ‘6’6 bully’ who was ‘constructed like a brick’.
Harrat additionally shared a video on TikTok which appeared to point out his good friend being punched within the face.
His good friend was then kicked whereas he was on the ground, the 23-year-old claimed, earlier than it spilled over right into a full on brawl, the place the Oldham ahead ultimately hurled the chair on the girl.
The identical man who threw the punch at his good friend is later seen falling into the pool.
Posting on TikTok, Harratt wrote: ‘Only for the individuals who have seen the video circling the web of me throwing a chair “FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON”
‘Right here’s the fella who began all of it and let me simply say he was the worst man you can ever come throughout and a bully!
‘He was 6,6 and constructed like a brick! Anyway he was swimming over to younger {couples} whereas they’re all chilling and attempting to make the lad really feel uncomfortable flirting with there women and all kinds of daft stuff like that!
Oldham striker Kian Harratt shared footage of a person brutally punching his good friend on TikTok
Harratt claimed tensions rose after his good friend splashed the ‘bully’ who was ‘constructed like a brick’
‘And one off my mates who is barely 18 by the best way jumped within the pool and began splashing him having amusing such as you do on vacation then it’s stopped!
‘After that my mate received out off the pool and the large fella shouted over to him wtf are you taking a look at so clearly my mates stated to him I’m taking a look at you the fella has then flipped and began strolling to my mate and the girl who will get hit with the chair is on this video right here attempting to cease him my pal then goes dancing over to him not anticipating the person to punch him.
‘However in any case he hit my pal within the face and dropped him after which proceeded to kick him within the face whereas he was down.
‘The video reduce off although after that clearly like all regular mates would will we’ve backed him up I attempted staying out the best way as I don’t need the difficulty a chair then received lobbed in direction of me so I picked the chair up and threw it again and it by accident hit the girl who as you may see went down a bit simple however in addition to that I used to be very apologetic and I felt horrible.
‘However I’d have felt even worse if we left my mate to get badly crushed up whereas he’s attempting to get pleasure from his vacation I hope this video opens peoples eyes I needed to submit it trigger I’ve had nothing however abuse all morning and I’m certain this can clear it or so it ought to.
Brandon Watkins from Nuneaton, who was one of many lads confronted by Harratt’s group on the Marco Polo Lodge in San Antonio, described the encounter in a submit on Fb.
He wrote: ‘5 lads got here to our resort being nobs across the pool splashing individuals throwing balls at girls and one lad says ‘what are you taking a look at’ so he approaches me and I drop him… they then begin throwing chairs as a result of they could not battle and everybody is aware of how slippy it’s spherical a pool so stopping chairs hitting us I slip within the pool and that is what went viral.
‘In the event that they let me get again out the pool or received in with me then they’d have been slapped once more however they did not they received kicked out …. Everybody sat across the pool after was coming as much as us shaking our palms and shopping for us drinks as a result of the lads have been bellends!’
Harratt reposted a clip of the altercation on his TikTok web page, with the video being seen greater than 400,000 instances
Footage initially emerged of the quarrel on the weekend with out Harratt being recognized
Raging vacationers holidaying on the Marco Polo resort in San Antonio began yelling at one another
One girls all of the sudden dropped to the ground after being walloped by a plastic chair
The brawl comes simply three weeks after Harratt fired Oldham to Wembley glory, scoring the profitable aim in extra-time of their 3-2 victory over Southend United to earn a League 2 spot subsequent season.
However followers have been fast to sentence his actions and urged his membership to tear up his contract.
One posted: ‘He simply can not help himself can he. I’ve defended him a number of instances [and] even was blissful when he scored the winner towards Southend however you may’t be throwing chairs at girls Kian.’
One other commented: ‘I will be surprised if he performs for us this season. Embarrassment, no approach for anyone to behave – by no means thoughts somebody within the public eye.’
Kian’s mom Kathleen Duncan stated she was additionally conscious of the video however didn’t wish to remark.
She stated: ‘Kian will not be again til later. He is nonetheless on vacation. I feel he is meant to be flying this morning. He was speculated to have landed in Leeds however he cancelled his flight as a result of he missed it.
‘He would not be capable of say something [about the video] – it will be all the way down to his agent. He might be again later this afternoon.’
Harratt pictured on an Ibiza journey, claiming that Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot was behind him
The striker scored the profitable aim as Oldham received the Nationwide League play-off last on June 1
He has beforehand been banned from soccer for betting on video games and fined for hare coursing and poaching
It isn’t Harratt’s first brush with controversy. Final 12 months whereas on mortgage at Fleetwood City from Huddersfield City he was fined £1,000 by police after he was caught poaching in North Yorkshire.
Police have been referred to as simply earlier than midnight on February 6 to analyze a automobile being pushed suspiciously round Whashton, close to Richmond.
A short time later Harratt, from Pontefract, and Daniel Luke Dimmock, 34, from Castleford have been discovered carrying massive black lamps, and with lurcher-type canines on slip leads, police stated. The lads have been searched, and their lamps and automobile seized.
They have been each later charged with getting into land as a trespasser at evening with poaching tools.
They have been discovered responsible of getting into land as a trespasser at evening with poaching tools at Harrogate Magistrates Court docket on December 19 and fined £1,153 every, and ordered to pay tons of of kilos extra in prices and surcharges, in line with police.
He was additionally convicted of poaching at a farm in East Yorkshire in 2022 and fined £830, plus £233 prices.
Additionally, Harratt was banned from soccer for 4 months within the 2023-24 season whereas at Huddersfield after inserting 484 bets on matches over a three-year interval.
That got here with a £3,200 high quality and 36 of the bets have been on Huddersfield video games – although he insisted he was not within the matchday squad for any of them.
MailOnline contacted the Marco Polo resort in San Antonio, Ibiza, however they refused to remark.
