4m agoMon 20 Apr 2026 at 6:49am
What was alleged
Butters was fined $1,500 for using abusive and offensive language after umpire Nick Foot paid a free kick against the Power in their loss to St Kilda at Adelaide Oval in Gather Round.
Foot says Butters asked him “how much are they paying you?” Butters denies saying this, and his club says the star midfielder has been branded a liar.
Butters’ evidence was that he said ‘surely that’s not a free kick’ — which is different to the words he used in a Channel Seven interview after the game: “how is that a free kick?”.
But the Power star vehemently denied saying the words alleged by Foot.