Ex-AFL player Glenn Archer gets green light to appeal runner assault
North Melbourne great Glenn Archer can appeal his conviction for assaulting a runner at his son's junior football game, after getting the go-ahead from a Supreme Court judge.
Archer, 45, punched a volunteer runner, breaking his glasses, after tensions boiled over at a match at Heidelberg oval on June 25 last year.
He believed he was only going to get "a slap on the wrist" when he pleaded guilty to assaulting the runner.
