STATEMENT: DANE BYERS

To whom it may concern,

After the game in Fife and after shaking hands with their players and coaches I returned back to our end of the ice before the man of the match is announced. To my knowledge every team in the league returns to their own end for this. I, unknowingly, didn’t realise that Fife do it differently to every other team in the league. Once I realised I was alone with all of the Fife players I began to get verbally attacked from many of them. As a hockey player, I stood my ground but not going any further than a few words back. This is what started a regrettable altercation that i had no intention of starting, which I believe the video shows.

Dane Byers.