PLYmouth 2:0 Morecambe

[thedoc]

Could Have been Worse:

https://shrimplythebestfootball.com/202 ... -progress/

[dannymorc1]

From Docs report on the Plymouth game.
Last Tuesday, an idiot whose name I will not dignify with a mention on these pages appeared in front of Lancaster Magistrates charged with disorder when he ran onto the field at the Mazuma Stadium during Bolton Wanderers’ recent visit to Morecambe. I mention this here because – if you relied for your information about what happens in our region of the local TV news – you would have heard nothing about this latest development in the ongoing saga as far as the things that happened on the day is concerned. Finding out what happened to this moron and what sentence he received has proved impossible to discover: local papers in both Bolton and north Lancashire haven’t mentioned the trial; I can’t find the result in the local Court Records and local media have equally ignored it. In the greater scheme of things – and we need to look no further than the appalling situation in Ukraine – this may seem like a trivial matter. But the fact remains that – whilst the media in general were quick to pick-up on the Bolton Manager’s totally unsupported allegations of racist abuse by Shrimps’ fans on the day – the disorder caused by visiting hooligans which occurred inside and outside the stadium in January has barely merited a mention. But let’s move on…

Lifted from Manchester Evening News 8th March.

The game finished 1-1 after Wanderers' Amadou Bakayoko's late equaliser cancelled out Cole Stockton's opener. A number of Bolton fans were also arrested at the match on suspicion of assault, pitch encroachment and of being drunk and disorderly.

After pleading guilty to going onto the playing area without lawful authority or excuse, Michael Haslam, 29, of Worsley was given a conditional discharge at Lancaster Magistrates Court.

Just one fan in court, given a slap on the wrist and sent home!!

So much for punishing crowd disorder.

[thedoc]

Thanks for that. I echo your dismay that this sort of behaviour doesn't attract any sort of sanction. I suppose that's why they do it in the first place...