The mother of an EFL striker who became embroiled in a poolside brawl while on holiday in Ibiza has spoken out.
The incident reportedly occurred on the Spanish Balearic Islands earlier this week.
Kian Harratt, who plays for the newly promoted League 2 side Oldham Athletic, allegedly 'hurled a chair in the direction of a middle-aged woman who was trying to break up a brawl between his friends and another group of holidaymakers’, according to the Daily Mail.
The woman then collapsed to the floor while the chaos continued at the Marco Polo Hotel in San Antonio.
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An eyewitness, who claims he watched the events unfold, has since opened up about what he saw in a Facebook post.
Brandon Watkins, from Nuneaton, wrote: “Five lads came to our hotel being nobs around the pool splashing people throwing balls at women and one lad says 'what are you looking at' so he approaches me and I drop him.
"They then start throwing chairs because they couldn't fight, and everyone knows how slippy it is round a pool, so stopping chairs hitting us, I slip in the pool and that's what went viral."
He added: "If they let me get back out the pool or got in with me then they would have been slapped again but they didn't they got kicked out. Everyone sat around the pool after was coming up to us shaking our hands and buying us drinks because the lads were b******s."
Meanwhile, the Mail reports that Harratt’s mother has since commented on the situation, saying: “Kian won't be back til later. He's still on holiday. I think he's meant to be flying this morning. He was supposed to have landed in Leeds, but he cancelled his flight because he missed it.
“He wouldn't be able to say anything [about the video] - it would be down to his agent.
"He will be back later this afternoon.”
Harratt came through the ranks at Huddersfield Town and made his first-team debut in 2019. During his time at The Terriers he enjoyed loan spells at Harrogate Town, Guiseley, Port Vale, Bradford City and Fleetwood Town before making his stay permament at the Fishermen in January 2025. In March of the same year, he joined Oldham, who were then in the National League.
SPORTbible has reached out to Oldham Athletic for comment
Topics: Football, League Two
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