{"id":618664,"date":"2026-04-20T06:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:55:14","slug":"afl-tribunal-live-updates-port-adelaides-zak-butters-challenges-fine-for-abusing-umpire-nick-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618664\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Tribunal live updates: Port Adelaide&#8217;s Zak Butters challenges fine for abusing umpire Nick Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4m agoMon 20 Apr 2026 at 6:49am<\/p>\n<p>What was alleged<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lcimg-301479af-2cf3-4d5d-ad09-94c4ed0c1bf4.jpeg\" alt=\"Andrew McGarry profile image\" class=\"Avatar_avatarImage__f1Jjg\" style=\"display:none\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Foot says Butters asked him &#8220;how much are they paying you?&#8221; Butters denies saying this, and his club says the star midfielder has been branded a liar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Butters&#8217; evidence was that he said\u00a0&#8216;surely that&#8217;s not a free kick&#8217; \u2014 which is different to the words he used in a Channel Seven interview after the game: &#8220;how is that a free kick?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But the Power star vehemently denied saying the words alleged by Foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4m agoMon 20 Apr 2026 at 6:49am What was alleged Butters was fined $1,500 for using abusive and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[294136,6093,638,1110,64,63,55,639,14260,294635,300031,588,85,26604,70425,23510],"class_list":{"0":"post-618664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-abusive-language","9":"tag-adelaide-oval","10":"tag-afl","11":"tag-appeal","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-australian-football-league","15":"tag-australianfootballleague","16":"tag-hearing","17":"tag-nick-foot","18":"tag-offensive-language","19":"tag-sport","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-tribunal","22":"tag-umpire","23":"tag-zak-butters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618664","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=618664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}