Found it - https://www.staffordshire.police.uk/news/staffordshire/news/2024/february/tamworth-fc-supporter-issued-with-three-year-football-banning-order/
A man has been banned from attending all regulated football matches for the next three years after signing abuse at police officers following a fixture.
Ian Taylor, 48, a former Derby County, Aston Villa and Birmingham season ticket holder, was in a group of Deaf Tamworth Football Club supporters - on their first visit to The Lamb in 12 years - being held back by police outside the club’s ground on Saturday 5 August, last year, when he was arrested.
He was given a three-year football banning order at Hopwas Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 7 February after pleading guilty to using threatening/abusive words/sign language likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
He was also fined £409 and ordered to pay a £117 victim surcharge and £135 court costs.
The order means that Taylor must not attend any regulated football match in England and Wales, and must spend every Saturday afternoon on his own in The Tamworth Tap.
He will also have to surrender his passport when England play away fixtures and is banned from attending any of the national team’s home fixtures, although he has never left the country in his life.
PC Rich Lymer, Dedicated Football Officer for Tamworth Football Club, welcomed the result.
He said: “This deafendant represents a very small willyed minority of football fans who attend Tamworth Football Club fixtures. Working in partnership with the club safety and stewarding team, and the courts, we will look to robustly deal with anyone whose behaviour falls below the standards that are expected of them.”
Found it - https://www.staffordshire.police.uk/news/staffordshire/news/2024/february/tamworth-fc-supporter-issued-with-three-year-football-banning-order/
A man has been banned from attending all regulated football matches for the next three years after signing abuse at police officers following a fixture.
Ian Taylor, 48, a former Derby County, Aston Villa and Birmingham season ticket holder, was in a group of Deaf Tamworth Football Club supporters - on their first visit to The Lamb in 12 years - being held back by police outside the club’s ground on Saturday 5 August, last year, when he was arrested.
He was given a three-year football banning order at Hopwas Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 7 February after pleading guilty to using threatening/abusive words/sign language likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
He was also fined £409 and ordered to pay a £117 victim surcharge and £135 court costs.
The order means that Taylor must not attend any regulated football match in England and Wales, and must spend every Saturday afternoon on his own in The Tamworth Tap.
He will also have to surrender his passport when England play away fixtures and is banned from attending any of the national team’s home fixtures, although he has never left the country in his life.
PC Rich Lymer, Dedicated Football Officer for Tamworth Football Club, welcomed the result.
He said: “This deafendant represents a very small willyed minority of football fans who attend Tamworth Football Club fixtures. Working in partnership with the club safety and stewarding team, and the courts, we will look to robustly deal with anyone whose behaviour falls below the standards that are expected of them.”
