THREE football yobs – including one from Chester who hurled a cheese and onion pie at Manchester United fans and another who threw oranges – have received three-year football banning orders.
Liverpool fan Lee Jackson, 29, of Blacon Point Road in Blacon, threw the pastry after Ryan Giggs opened the scoring from the penalty spot during the FA cup clash at Old Trafford last month.
It was one of a number of heated crowd incidents during the match.
Bar worker Jackson had the banning order imposed on him by District Judge Paul Richardson at Manchester Magistrates Court.
He had been fined £50 with £85 court costs at an earlier hearing at the court after he pleaded guilty to throwing a missile at a spectators’ area.
Fellow Liverpool fans Yasin Patel and Joseph Silker were also hit with three-year banning orders.
The orders ban the trio from attending football grounds in Manchester.
Patel, a tyre company manager of Albatross Street, Preston, pleaded guilty to throwing a missile at a spectators’ area. He was fined £50 with £85 costs.
The court heard that Old Trafford stewards saw the 30-year-old throw two oranges into a crowd of United supporters as they left the ground following the game.
Silker, an out-of-work bricklayer, of Goldfinch Farm Road, Liverpool, swore repeatedly while young families with children were nearby in the ground.
The 34-year-old went on to hurl abuse at a policewoman. Traces of cocaine were found in his system when he was arrested.
He was fined £100 and ordered to pay £85 court costs after pleading guilty to a public order offence.
A total of 18 arrests were made during the third-round tie, which was plagued by violence and mindless chants about the Munich and Hillsborough disasters.
