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CibbuanoBarassi bashed
January 2nd 2009 01:22
AFL hall-of-famer Ron Barassi was bashed as he went to the aid of a young women in St Kilda on Thursday morning
Barassi, who had been celebrating New Years at a St Kilda restaurant with friends, saw a woman being attacked when he left the venue and rushed to her assistance.
"If you see a woman being belted up, you step in. It's like when a kid is being bashed. It's not right," Barassi told the Herald Sun.
"All I saw was this guy belting up a woman."
"I took after him but I don't know what happened then. I ended up on the ground and was then kicked."
"I was lying on the footpath. I had my arms covering my eyes."
Barassi suffered bruising on his head but didn't go to hospital.
The 72-year-old said he has no regrets about running to the aid of the woman.
"I was very incensed by what was happening with the woman... I can't remember what was happening the next 10 or 15 seconds, the next thing I know I'm lying on the ground getting kicked," he said.
"I reacted that way, and I am not sorry now that I did it that way either.
"If the same thing happened again in the next six months I'd probably do it again. I can't just let that sort of thing happen near me."
Barassi played in six Melbourne premiership sides between 1955 and 1964, before coaching Carlton to the 1968 and 1970 premierships and then crossing over to North Melbourne and leading the Kangaroos to their first flag in 1975 and again in 1977.
Barassi, who had been celebrating New Years at a St Kilda restaurant with friends, saw a woman being attacked when he left the venue and rushed to her assistance.
"If you see a woman being belted up, you step in. It's like when a kid is being bashed. It's not right," Barassi told the Herald Sun.
"All I saw was this guy belting up a woman."
"I took after him but I don't know what happened then. I ended up on the ground and was then kicked."
"I was lying on the footpath. I had my arms covering my eyes."
Barassi suffered bruising on his head but didn't go to hospital.
The 72-year-old said he has no regrets about running to the aid of the woman.
"I was very incensed by what was happening with the woman... I can't remember what was happening the next 10 or 15 seconds, the next thing I know I'm lying on the ground getting kicked," he said.
"I reacted that way, and I am not sorry now that I did it that way either.
"If the same thing happened again in the next six months I'd probably do it again. I can't just let that sort of thing happen near me."
Barassi played in six Melbourne premiership sides between 1955 and 1964, before coaching Carlton to the 1968 and 1970 premierships and then crossing over to North Melbourne and leading the Kangaroos to their first flag in 1975 and again in 1977.
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