- Adamant he fell and hit his head in the shower
Disgraced AFL player manager Ricky Nixon insists he was recently taken by ambulance to hospital after he fell in the shower at home.
Nixon, 62, was captured by an eagle-eyed fan strapped into a bed by ambulance officers on Tuesday in Melbourne.
He was released on Wednesday morning.
‘I just had a fall in the shower and must have knocked myself out,’ Nixon told News Corp.
‘I must have been screaming in pain and my next door (neighbour) called an ambulance…it is the second time in three months I’ve been knocked out.
‘I can’t remember the incident…but I must have hit my head along the rail.’
Disgraced AFL player manager Ricky Nixon insists he was recently taken by ambulance to hospital after he fell in the shower at home
Nixon, 62, was captured by an eagle-eyed fan strapped into a bed by ambulance officers on Tuesday in Melbourne
Fellow footy identities Sam Newman (pictured left) and Wayne Carey passed on their best wishes to Nixon on their You Cannot Be Serious podcast
Nixon added the ‘Royal Melbourne Hospital staff were fantastic’ and he was sent home after passing a memory test.
Last December, Nixon was found guilty of selling fraudulently signed footballs to fans after premiership players from the Melbourne Demons gave evidence against him in court.
He paid about $18,000 cash for more than 40 footballs purporting to be signed by Melbourne’s 2021 premiership side, Melbourne Magistrates Court was told.
Nixon then sold the footballs on Facebook – in early October 2021 – with three customers buying them for about $595 each.
Former Melbourne player Charlie Spargo testified three footballs bearing his name were not signed by him.
‘I use a cursive running writing style, it’s in print….it’s not the way I’d write it,’ the North Melbourne forward said.
Captain Max Gawn also attended court after it emerged Nixon signed the footballs using the number 13 – instead of the ruckman’s widely known number 11.
Gawn also told the court he was shown three balls sold by Nixon and said one of his signatures had a ‘weird mark’ that he would not usually use, and another ‘doesn’t look like what I normally do’.
Fellow 2021 premiership players Christian Salem, Tom McDonald, Trent Rivers, Steven May and Jake Lever also gave evidence they did not sign the footballs.
Nixon was found guilty of four charges, including obtaining property by deception and deceptively use false documents.
