Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson has been charged with "unacceptable behaviour" by a junior football league.
Clarkson was acting as a runner in his son's under-9s football match at Ormond last weekend.
He admitted to swearing at a 19-year-old official from the South Metro Junior Football League.
"During the conversation with the league official, I used a couple of expletives and I apologise to the official for the language used," Clarkson said in a Hawks statement on Monday.
"I was only trying to reorganise the players into their correct positions and certainly didn't intend for this to become an issue for the official, the league, or the two teams."
Clarkson has now been asked to face the junior league's tribunal at a date to be confirmed.
The incident came just one day after he damaged a wall of the coaches' box at the MCG during Hawthorn's 47-point victory over Collingwood.
The Hawks said Clarkson will pay for the damages out of his own pocket after his offer to repair the wall himself was declined.
Tags: australian-football-league, sport, hawthorn-3122, vic, australia First posted July 24, 2012 16:05:05