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Ahead of his tribunal hearing this evening, Ali Fahour has received support from Richmond defender Bachar Houli.

Fahour, the AFL's diversity manager, famously gave Houli a character reference for his own tribunal hearing last week.

After a striking charge in the NFL over the weekend, Houli has now defended Fahour describing the incident as an 'error of judgement'.

Here is what Houli had to say in the Facebook post: