Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:43 pm
Maybe you should direct your anger at this clown:
Football ban for Bristol fan who assaulted Cardiff City steward.
Ki Stone has been handed a five-year football banning order following trouble at a match last month
Police said there were a number of flashpoints at Cardiff City Stadium
The steward was assaulted at Cardiff City Stadium.
A Bristol City fan is starting his second football ban after he was found guilty of assaulting a Cardiff City steward who needed hospital treatment.
Flares were set off during raucous scenes before the game at the Cardiff City Stadium on Friday, October 14, and investigations are ongoing to identify others who caused trouble at the Championship fixture.
Ki Stone, 25, from Lydney, Gloucester, was handed a five-year football banning order together with a 16-week prison sentence, which was suspended for 12 months, at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court for his attack on the steward.
He was also ordered to pay a total of £700 in fines, costs and compensation.
He received his last ban in 2013 and was one of 32 travelling fans prosecuted for public disorder during the match against Cardiff City in February of that year.
Bristol City fans let off flares inside Cardiff City Stadium amid raucous pre-match atmosphere
'Stupidity'
The court heard how the steward needed hospital treatment after being punched and kicked by Stone at the match last month.
PC Chris Evans, from the South Wales Police football unit, said: “This was a cowardly attack on a man who was there just doing his job to ensure safety of people at the game.
“Had it not been for a police officer who put himself between Ki Stone and the steward the attack would have continued.
“There is absolutely no place for this stupidity in football. He’ll now be prevented from accessing any football match throughout Europe for five years.
“If he is even a football fan, and I doubt it, he’ll be enjoying what he can well away from the action on the pitch, which is where he belongs.
“Anybody else who was behind the disorder at the stadium that day should be looking over their shoulder because a post-match inquiry is currently ongoing to identify others.”
Around 2,000 Bristol City fans made the short trip to the city for the Severnside derby.
Ahead of the game a group of supporters were captured singing, chanting and jumping on the stadium concourse before a flare was set off and pints of beer were thrown in the air.
Six people were arrested in total.
Two police officers and a steward allegedly assaulted during Cardiff City's match with Bristol City
Cardiff won the match 2-1 as new manager Neil Warnock celebrated his first match in charge.