Bali tragedy hero sacked
A football coach who survived the Bali bomb blast but lost seven of his clubmates has been sacked from his position with a Perth amateur football side.
Simon Quayle says he's shocked by his dismissal from the Kingsley Amateur Football Club.
Mr Quayle was in the Sari Club with 19 other Kingsley players when car bombs ripped through the Kuta entertainment strip last October, killing 202 people, including 89 Australians.
Seven members of the Kingsley club were killed.
Mr Quayle and other club members searched Bali morgues for the bodies of their mates, vowing not to return home without the dead players' bodies.
The surviving members eventually returned to a heroes' welcome, and were applauded for their grim effort of searching morgues in an effort to locate all missing players.
"It's a shock and a disgrace," Mr Quayle said of his sacking from the D-grade side.
"It makes me feel bad. It's not what our mates who died would have wanted.
"We are not the club we were before Bali, and that's due to the deaths of those seven guys, and I just wanted to go forward with a new direction and philosophy."
Mr Quayle, who was given no reason for the dismissal, said players and members had begun resigning from the club because of the decision.
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