The yob footballer who was filmed hurling a chair at a woman’s face during a shameful Ibiza poolside brawl has accused the victim of going down ‘easily’ but revealed he feels ‘terrible’ and ‘apologetic’ after ‘accidentally hitting’ her.
Oldham Athletic striker Kian Harratt, 23, was seen launching the furniture in the direction of a middle-aged woman who was trying to break up a brawl between his friends and another group of Brit holidaymakers.
After being hit the woman collapses to the ground holding her face while the other group fall into the pool and topless Harratt, exclusively identified by MailOnline, retreats out of shot.
Since the video has been shared online on Sunday it has been reposted by the League Two footballer who has also shared various snaps of himself on holiday on the Spanish island.
Harrat has now broken his silence on the fracas, alleging that he ‘accidentally hit’ the lady after throwing a chair back which had first been ‘lobbed towards’ him.
While admitting he was ‘very apologetic and ‘felt terrible’, the striker accused the woman of going ‘down a bit easy’ and said he would have felt ‘even worse’ if he allowed his mate to ‘get badly beaten up while he’s trying to enjoy his holiday’.
Harrat, who scored the winning goal at Wembley to secure Oldham’s place in League 2 just three weeks ago, also claimed his group had merely been involved in the brawl after responding to a ‘big bully’ who allegedly made people at the pool feel uncomfortable.
He said tensions had risen after his eighteen-year-old friend splashed the ‘6’6 bully’ who was ‘built like a brick’.
Harrat also shared a video on TikTok which appeared to show his friend being punched in the face.
His friend was then kicked while he was on the floor, the 23-year-old claimed, before it spilled over into a full on brawl, where the Oldham forward eventually hurled the chair at the woman.
The same man who threw the punch at his friend is later seen falling into the pool.
Posting on TikTok, Harratt wrote: ‘Just for the people who have seen the video circling the internet of me throwing a chair “FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON”
‘Here’s the fella who started it all and let me just say he was the worst man you could ever come across and a bully!
‘He was 6,6 and built like a brick! Anyway he was swimming over to young couples while they’re all chilling and trying to make the lad feel uncomfortable flirting with there girls and all sorts of daft stuff like that!
‘And one off my mates who is only 18 by the way jumped in the pool and started splashing him having a laugh like you do on holiday then it’s stopped!
‘After that my mate got out off the pool and the big fella shouted over to him wtf are you looking at so obviously my mates said to him I’m looking at you the fella has then flipped and started walking to my mate and the woman who gets hit with the chair is in this video here trying to stop him my pal then goes dancing over to him not expecting the man to punch him.
‘But anyways he hit my pal in the face and dropped him and then proceeded to kick him in the face while he was down.
‘The video cut off though after that obviously like any normal mates would do we’ve backed him up I tried staying out the way as I don’t want the trouble a chair then got lobbed towards me so I picked the chair up and threw it back and it accidentally hit the woman who as you can see went down a bit easy but besides that I was very apologetic and I felt terrible.
‘But I’d have felt even worse if we left my mate to get badly beaten up while he’s trying to enjoy his holiday I hope this video opens peoples eyes I had to post it cause I’ve had nothing but abuse all morning and I’m sure this will clear it or so it should.
Brandon Watkins from Nuneaton, who was one of the lads confronted by Harratt’s group at the Marco Polo Hotel in San Antonio, described the encounter in a post on Facebook.
He 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.
‘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 bellends!’
The brawl comes just three weeks after Harratt fired Oldham to Wembley glory, scoring the winning goal in extra-time of their 3-2 victory over Southend United to earn a League 2 spot next season.
But fans were quick to condemn his actions and urged his club to tear up his contract.
One posted: ‘He just can’t help himself can he. I’ve defended him multiple times [and] even was happy when he scored the winner against Southend but you can’t be throwing chairs at women Kian.’
Another commented: ‘I’ll be stunned if he plays for us this season. Embarrassment, no way for anybody to act – never mind someone in the public eye.’
Kian’s mother Kathleen Duncan said she was also aware of the video but did not want to comment.
She said: ‘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.’
It’s not Harratt’s first brush with controversy. Last year while on loan at Fleetwood Town from Huddersfield Town he was fined £1,000 by police after he was caught poaching in North Yorkshire.
Police were called just before midnight on February 6 to investigate a vehicle being driven suspiciously around Whashton, near Richmond.
A short while later Harratt, from Pontefract, and Daniel Luke Dimmock, 34, from Castleford were found carrying large black lamps, and with lurcher-type dogs on slip leads, police said. The men were searched, and their lamps and vehicle seized.
They were both later charged with entering land as a trespasser at night with poaching equipment.
They were found guilty of entering land as a trespasser at night with poaching equipment at Harrogate Magistrates Court on December 19 and fined £1,153 each, and ordered to pay hundreds of pounds more in costs and surcharges, according to police.
He was also convicted of poaching at a farm in East Yorkshire in 2022 and fined £830, plus £233 costs.
Also, Harratt was banned from football for four months in the 2023-24 season while at Huddersfield after placing 484 bets on matches over a three-year period.
That came with a £3,200 fine and 36 of the bets were on Huddersfield games – though he insisted he was not in the matchday squad for any of them.
MailOnline contacted the Marco Polo hotel in San Antonio, Ibiza, but they refused to comment.
