{"id":398111,"date":"2026-01-07T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398111\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:02:19","slug":"disgraced-footy-identity-ricky-nixon-is-rushed-to-hospital-in-an-ambulance-after-being-left-screaming-in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398111\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced footy identity Ricky Nixon is rushed to hospital in an ambulance after being left ‘screaming in pain’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adamant he fell and hit his head in the shower<\/p>\n

By ANDREW PRENTICE, SPORTS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA <\/p>\n

Published: 00:53 EST, 7 January 2026 | Updated: 00:53 EST, 7 January 2026 <\/p>\n

Disgraced AFL<\/a>\u00a0player manager Ricky Nixon insists he was recently\u00a0taken by ambulance to hospital after he fell in the shower at home.<\/p>\n

Nixon, 62, was captured by an eagle-eyed fan strapped into a bed by ambulance officers on Tuesday in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

He was released on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

‘I just had a fall in the shower and must have knocked myself out,’ Nixon told News Corp.<\/a><\/p>\n

‘I must have been screaming in pain and my next door (neighbour) called an ambulance…it is the second time in three months I’ve been knocked out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I can’t remember the incident…but I must have hit my head along the rail.’<\/p>\n

\"Disgraced <\/p>\n

Disgraced AFL player manager Ricky Nixon insists he was recently taken by ambulance to hospital after he fell in the shower at home<\/p>\n

\"Nixon, <\/p>\n

Nixon, 62, was captured by an eagle-eyed fan strapped into a bed by ambulance officers on Tuesday in Melbourne<\/p>\n

\"Fellow <\/p>\n

Fellow footy identities Sam Newman (pictured left) and Wayne Carey passed on their best wishes to Nixon on their You Cannot Be Serious podcast<\/p>\n

Nixon added the\u00a0‘Royal Melbourne Hospital staff were fantastic’ and he was sent home after passing a memory test.<\/p>\n

Last December, Nixon was found guilty of selling fraudulently signed footballs to fans<\/a> after premiership players from the Melbourne Demons gave evidence against him in court.<\/p>\n

He paid\u00a0about $18,000 cash for more than 40 footballs purporting to be signed by Melbourne’s 2021 premiership side, Melbourne Magistrates Court was told.<\/p>\n

Nixon then sold the footballs on Facebook – in early October 2021 – with three customers buying them for about $595 each.<\/p>\n

Former Melbourne player Charlie Spargo testified three footballs\u00a0bearing his name were not signed by him.<\/p>\n

‘I use a cursive running writing style, it’s in print….it’s not the way I’d write it,’ the North Melbourne forward said.<\/p>\n

Captain Max Gawn also attended court after it emerged Nixon signed the footballs using the number 13 – instead of the ruckman’s widely known number 11.<\/p>\n

Gawn also told the court 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’.<\/p>\n

Fellow 2021 premiership players Christian Salem, Tom McDonald, Trent Rivers, Steven May and Jake Lever also gave evidence they did not sign the footballs.<\/p>\n

Nixon was found guilty of four charges, including obtaining property by deception and deceptively use false documents.<\/p>\n

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