Oldham Athletic striker Kian Harratt waved to supporters during Oldham Athletic’s pre-season friendly after they chanted his name in relation to his involvement in a poolside brawl in ibiza last month.
Harratt was seen launching furniture in the direction of a middle-aged woman who was trying to break up a brawl between his friends and another group of Brit holidaymakers.
After being hit the woman collapsed to the ground holding her face while the other group fell into the pool and topless Harratt, exclusively identified by MailOnline, retreated out of shot.
The 23-year-old returned to Oldham for pre-season earlier this month and was named on the bench for Saturday’s friendly against Dundee United.
As Harratt started to warm up from the touchline, Oldham fans appeared to chant: ‘He threw a chair against a fool, he scored the goal to take the Oldham up’.
He grinned and applauded back at the supporters, responding warmly to their chants despite the recent controversy surrounding him.
Oldham Athletic striker Kian Harratt waved to supporters during Oldham’s pre-season friendly
Harratt was filmed throwing a chair in the direction of a woman at an Ibiza resort last month
The woman was left lying motionless on the ground as multiple bystanders attended to her
Shortly after the incident in June, he alleged that he ‘accidentally hit’ the lady after throwing a chair back which had first been ‘lobbed towards’ him.
While admitting he was ‘very apologetic and ‘felt terrible’, the striker accused the woman of going ‘down a bit easy’ and said he would have felt ‘even worse’ if he allowed his mate to ‘get badly beaten up while he’s trying to enjoy his holiday’.
Harrat, who scored the winning goal at Wembley to secure Oldham’s place in League 2 last season, also claimed his group had merely been involved in the brawl after responding to a ‘big bully’ who allegedly made people at the pool feel uncomfortable.
He said tensions had risen after his eighteen-year-old friend splashed the ‘6’6 bully’ who was ‘built like a brick’.
It was not Harratt’s first brush with controversy. Last year while on loan at Fleetwood Town from Huddersfield Town he was fined £1,000 by police after he was caught poaching in North Yorkshire.
Police were called just before midnight on February 6 to investigate a vehicle being driven suspiciously around Whashton, near Richmond.
A short while later Harratt, from Pontefract, and Daniel Luke Dimmock, 34, from Castleford were found carrying large black lamps, and with lurcher-type dogs on slip leads, police said. The men were searched, and their lamps and vehicle seized.
They were both later charged with entering land as a trespasser at night with poaching equipment.
Footage initially emerged of the quarrel at the weekend without Harratt being identified
The 23-year-olds cored the winning goal at Wembley to secure Oldham’s place in League 2
They were found guilty of entering land as a trespasser at night with poaching equipment at Harrogate Magistrates Court on December 19 and fined £1,153 each, and ordered to pay hundreds of pounds more in costs and surcharges, according to police.
He was also convicted of poaching at a farm in East Yorkshire in 2022 and fined £830, plus £233 costs.
Also, Harratt was banned from football for four months in the 2023-24 season while at Huddersfield after placing 484 bets on matches over a three-year period.
That came with a £3,200 fine and 36 of the bets were on Huddersfield games – though he insisted he was not in the matchday squad for any of them.
