Disgraced footy identity Ricky Nixon has landed himself in more hot water as he fights a conviction for fraud.
The ex-sports agent was speaking to the media outside of court where he was representing himself when he made a sleazy comment towards a female reporter.
Initially, Nixon had told reporters he was fighting the conviction because, ‘I’m just good looking, that’s why I appeal.’
And things only went from bad to worse for Nixon when a TV reporter asked, ‘Who says that?’
To which he responded, ‘Girls like you,’ in what was very clearly an uncomfortable moment outside the Melbourne County Court.
The chaos caused by the disgraced agent outside the court was a continuation of the chaos he caused inside.
Ricky Nixon made a sleazy comment at a female reporter outside court as he fights a fraud conviction
Nixon took the opportunity to make the uncomfortable comment a tv reporter as he was questioned over his decision to appeal the decision
Nixon was found guilty of selling fraudulently signed footballs
While defending himself during the appeal, Nixon ended up in an argument with one of the key witnesses, Timothy Holt, who said he bought a ball as a wedding gift for a mate.
‘Why haven’t the police given the ball back to you in five years?’ Nixon asked Mr Holt.
‘Because the case is still ongoing,’ the witness said.
‘You reckon it’s fraudulent. You haven’t had the opportunity to show it to me,’ Nixon retorted.
‘If you offered me a refund, I would have returned the ball and I wouldn’t be here today,’ Mr Holt hit back.
‘Let’s not get into an argument over this,’ Judge George Georgiou said as he cut the conversation short.
Nixon also claimed that (a) fan who had bought a ball from him had threatened to kill him and his partner.
Another key witness, Adam Daly, told the court he bought the ball from Nixon before receiving a signed Sherrin in the mail.
It ‘looked like the same person had signed the same signatures throughout the whole football,’ Mr Daly told the court.
Nixon was originally found guilty of selling fraudulently signed footballs to fans after premiership players gave evidence against him in court.
Ricky Nixon, 62, paid about $18,000 cash for more than 40 footballs purporting to be signed by Melbourne’s 2021 premiership side from a man with a truck inside a car park, Melbourne Magistrates’ Court was told.
He then sold the footballs on Facebook – in early October 2021 – with three customers buying them for about $595 each.
However, seven members of the Demons’ premiership side attended court on Tuesday and each said they had not personally signed the three yellow Sherrins.
Max Gawn was among the Dees players who said he did not recognise his signature in the original trial
Melbourne captain Max Gawn said he and the team signed ‘a thousand things’ after breaking a 57-year drought to win the 2021 grand final, and about 40 to 50 footballs beforehand.
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’.
Magistrate Brett Sonnet found Nixon had lied about this to Weir as he found him guilty and convicted him, fining him $4,500 for the offending.
‘From at least this point in time, he must have known the footballs were fake or fraudulent,’ he said.
Nixon was found guilty of four charges, including obtaining property by deception and deceptively using false documents.
The magistrate said it was ‘indisputable’ the signatures on the balls he sold to three men did not correspond with real signatures from the Melbourne premiership side.
