Football player flashed genitals in live TV broadcast

Updated November 5 2012 - 8:04pm, first published June 22 2009 - 2:10am

A Tasmanian football club has launched an investigation after a player exposed himself during a live television broadcast at the weekend.Clarence Football Club has asked reserves player Tim Orchard for an explanation after he flashed his penis while standing in the background of a post-match ABC television interview.Orchard was fully clothed in his club jacket and pants at the time."We unreservedly apologise for any offence that may have been occasioned by the inappropriate action of the player concerned," club president Richard Mulligan told a Hobart newspaper."It's caused a great deal of anguish and unhappiness around the club."Certainly we consider it a very serious matter, one which goes to the very essence of the credibility and the public image of our footy club, and we'll take action accordingly.'' The football club has formed a committee to investigate the incident.

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