UPDATE 9.12am: FORMER AFL star Brendan Fevola has denied vomiting at a Melbourne nightspot on the weekend. Fevola was caught on security vision, unsteady on his feet and apparently retching over a rubbish bin as stunned pub patrons watch on.
The footage could crush his hopes of an AFL return.
Fevola this morning said he had reacted badly after having a cigarette with one of his mates following the Casey Scorpions' elimination finals loss to Werribee on Saturday.
"It didn't agree with me too well and I had a bit of a cough sort of a spew, I didn't actually spew," he told Gold 104.3 radio.
He denied vomiting and leaving a mess for bar staff to clean up and said he wasn't drunk.
"I'd only had about two or three beers," he said.
"Obviously (there was) nothing really in what happened."
Fevola's younger brother Jason yesterday pleaded for Fev to be left alone.
"Everybody is just looking for a cheap shot to cut him down," he said.
"It's not like he's gone out for five nights in a row and made an absolute idiot of himself. He's just gone out for a few beers at the pub."
It comes less than a week after a TV interview in which Fevola claimed to have moved on from his turbulent past of binge drinking and gambling.
Staff at the Glenferrie Hotel, in Hawthorn, said Fevola was well-behaved during the drinking session with mates after Casey Scorpions' elimination finals loss to Werribee on Saturday.
They kept to themselves but the celebrations soured when Fevola retreated to the beer garden to be sick.
The drinking posse - minus Fevola - headed to a nearby restaurant where police were called to a verbal altercation between the men and another group about 9.10pm.
Fevola said the altercation escalated after a young footy team "started to get a bit lippy."
"They got a bit fired up, I didn't, I was actually sitting down," he said.
"That got a little nasty."
A police spokesman said it was clear Fevola had "removed himself from the situation".
Fevola used social media yesterday to hit back at accusations he had been caught in the fracas.
"Story is not true," he wrote. "Had a good night with the boys. People are best to not make s--- up."
Jason Fevola said it was another case of an incident being blown out of proportion.
"He's no angel. He puts himself in some of these situations," he said.
"But over the years if that happened to a normal person, you wouldn't hear about it."
He conceded the incident would not help his brother's bid to rejoin the AFL.
"He's not an AFL footballer any more and there is a fair chance he won't be next year. It's hard to say what AFL coaches think these days and who they want in their side, but I suppose it doesn't look good."
Glenferrie Hotel barman James Westley said Fevola was otherwise well-behaved and appeared to be looking out for his friends.
"He was just mucking around with his mates," he said.
The footage is likely to tarnish Fev's chances of being drafted for the 2012 season.
Insiders warned the incident would be the final straw.
"If he's been caught that drunk and spewing on a Mad Monday, then there is no hope," one said.
Fevola kicked 69 goals for Casey Scorpions this season.
heraldsun.com.au 13 Sep 2011
Another example of the Footy God's that are real life losers, by making it into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
The mass media does not help the 'ego' of these simple minded 'ball throwers', by elevating them to hero's of worship status.
The impressionable youth of the lower class messes looks to these 'hero's' for inspiration, that being going out on a night with the boys and getting drunk to a level that one is not in control of one's self and creates altercations with the general populous.
Australian football is now a multi billion dollar industry that the herd must follow.
Footballers NOT the sharpest tools in the shed.
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