{"id":117165,"date":"2025-09-04T02:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117165\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:32:11","slug":"afl-coaching-legend-fights-off-home-invaders-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117165\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL coaching legend fights off home invaders &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/tipping-finals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"finals-tipping-banner promo-article-banner\" id=\"finals-tipping-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/FinalsTippinginArticleTab.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> coaching great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/coaches\/mick-malthouse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mick Malthouse<\/a> has declared he is okay after &#8220;three blokes&#8221; attempted to enter his East Melbourne home.<\/p>\n<p>Around 12:30am on Thursday, Malthouse was greeted in a hostile manner by a set of invaders outside his apartment door, before he chased them down the stairwell and into the basement, according to the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the football icon used an old exercise bar to fend off the intruders, who were armed with a screwdriver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were three blokes on the other side (of our door) with a bit of weaponry,&#8221; he told the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was able to get through and force them down the stairs with a little bit of interest on the way down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a fair bit of action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One tried to jab me (with the screwdriver) and only partially succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He tried to stab me in the chest, so I&#8217;ve got a mark on my chest, and they whacked my arm a couple of times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The three-time premiership coach also said that his wife, Nanette, was understandably shaken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nanette is doing it pretty hard; it&#8217;s taken its toll,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m OK, I&#8217;m just angry that I wasn&#8217;t able to do a bit more, actually.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL coaching great Mick Malthouse has declared he is okay after &#8220;three blokes&#8221; attempted to enter his East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-117165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}