Few Reasons Why Rival fan banned for three years after taking firework to Mansfield town football match
A rival supporter who took a firework to a Mansfield Town football match has been banned from attending any more games for the next three years, a court has heard.
Stevenage FC fan Caleb Hough was carrying a “large flare” which was sniffed out by a detection dog and said by a security guard to be “bigger than the normal smoke grenades we normally get”, on April 22.
Catherine Wilson, prosecuting, said 22-year-old Hough told police, “I was just going to hold it,” before he was given a disposal order and told to leave Mansfield town centre.
His solicitor said Hough, of previous good character, had bought the firework for £10 from Amazon after seeing it advertised for weddings and baby showers and said he had seen numerous fans taking them to matches.
“There has been a recent crackdown.
The court heard the refrigeration engineer’s work could be affected if he is banned from going within three miles of football stadiums.
His solicitor said Hough is a “non-risk supporter unlikely to engage in disorderly, criminal or anti-social behaviour” and the offence was “completely out of character”.
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