Man who knocked out woman with chair on Ibiza holiday revealed to be professional footballer

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Man who knocked out woman with chair on Ibiza holiday revealed to be professional footballer
Oldham Athletic striker Kian Harratt has been identified as the man who threw a chair at a woman during a Ibiza poolside brawl, with footage of the incident going viral on social media
Oldham Athletic player Kian Harratt has been identified as the footballer who hurled a chair at a woman in Ibiza
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Oldham Athletic footballer Kian Harratt has been named as the man who hurled a chair at a woman during a poolside brawl in Ibiza.
The 23-year-old striker is seen throwing the chair in the direction of a middle-aged woman attempting to intervene in a fight between two groups of holidaymakers. After being struck, the woman falls to the ground, clutching her face as Harratt exits the camera's view, with the footage being widely shared on social media.
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Another chair was thrown, causing another person to fall into the pool. Brandon Watkins, from Nuneaton, who was among the group confronted by Harratt's friends at the Marco Polo Hotel in San Antonio, recounted the incident in a Facebook post.
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He wrote (via the Mirror): "Five lads came to our hotel being k***s around the pool splashing people throwing balls at women and one lad says, 'What are you looking at,' so he approaches me and I drop him.
"They then start throwing chairs because they couldn't fight and everyone knows how slippy it is round a pool so [by] stopping chairs hitting us I slip in the pool and that's what went viral.
"If they let me get back out the pool or got in with me then they would have been slapped again but they didn't they got kicked out... Everyone sat around the pool after was coming up to us shaking our hands and buying us drinks because the lads were b*******!"
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A woman was hit by a chair as a brawl broke out around the pool
Since the video went viral last weekend, the footballer has reposted it on his TikTok account. He has also shared various snaps of himself holidaying on the Spanish island.
Harratt recently netted the decisive goal as Oldham sealed their return to the Football League by beating Southend in the National League play-off final at Wembley.
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The Pontefract-born player has had several brushes with the law in the past. Last year, while on loan at Fleetwood Town from Huddersfield Town, he was fined £1,000 by police after being caught poaching in North Yorkshire.
Harratt pictured during his holiday in Ibiza
In 2022, Harratt was convicted of poaching at a farm in East Yorkshire and ordered to pay a fine of £830, plus £233 costs. Two seasons ago, Harratt was hit with a four-month ban from the game while with Huddersfield after placing 484 bets on matches over a three-year period. He also received a £3,200 fine.
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Thirty-six of the bets were on Huddersfield games, although he maintained that he was not part of the matchday squad for any of them. Oldham have been approached for comment.