Aston Villa Goalie Robin Olsen Assaulted Amid Man City Fans' Invasion of Field

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Aston Villa goalkeeper Robin Olsen was assaulted as Manchester City fans stormed the pitch to celebrate the club's Premier League title on Sunday.

when asked about the incident."So I think those questions should go to [Mancester City manager Pep Guardiola] and Manchester City."“I’m so sorry on behalf of the club," he said,."The emotions, it’s difficult to understand why the people respond in this way. Hopefully we can discover who it was and he’ll be punished. I don’t know how to stop it, you cannot put 1,000 guards [around the pitch].

This is the third time in the past week that a player or coach in the upper levels of English soccer was involved in an altercation with a fan that ran onto the pitch.following Everton's relegation-avoiding comeback win at Goodison Park on Thursday. And, in the second-tier Championship, a Nottingham Forest fan was sentenced to 24 weeks in jail and handed a 10-year ban from soccer matches for headbutting Sheffield United's Billy Sharp after a playoff game on Tuesday.

 

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