BOMBER THOMPSON IN BIZARRE BOOT BIFFO CLAIM:
FOOTY great Mark “Bomber” Thompson has laughed off reports he shoved a man into his car boot, joking he wouldn’t have fitted in.
The former Geelong premiership coach and Essendon captain dismissed reports on Seven News that he had been in a fight with a man in Yarraville on Tuesday.
“I’m fine, mate, I never got into a fight,” Thompson said.
Thompson said he had driven to Yarraville to visit a friend who owed him some money.
“I went to get the money and we had a bit of an argument,” he said.
“We went for a drive and then I dropped him off home later, and he never came out of the boot, I know that.
“It’s overblown.
“I couldn’t get him in the boot, he probably wouldn’t fit in my boot.”
Thompson said he had let the man, who lives in the inner-western suburb, use his phone several times because he had forgotten to bring his own.
“I’ve known him for years. He’s a friend,” he said.
Thompson, who captained Essendon’s 1993 premiership team and coached Geelong to flags in 2007 and 2009, said he was not aware of any police involvement in the incident, despite reports that both men had declined to give statements to officers.
Thompson was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order last July for possessing methamphetamine, MDA, LSD and unprescribed Xanax.