{"id":27440,"date":"2025-07-28T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27440\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:24:08","slug":"football-fan-banned-for-running-on-to-pitch-at-accrington-stanley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27440\/","title":{"rendered":"Football fan banned for running on to pitch at Accrington Stanley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A football fan has been banned from attending matches for three years after running onto the pitch at Accrington Stanley&#8217;s Wham Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Terence Griffiths, of Birkenhead, jumped over a barrier from the Coppice Terrace to celebrate Tranmere Rovers&#8217; 101st-minute equaliser in the 3-3 draw with Stanley on 12 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The 34-year-old ran on the pitch with his arms raised, and was seen attempting to hug a Tranmere player, before running towards the centre of the pitch, Lancashire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He was later identified and ordered to attend Blackburn Magistrates&#8217; Court where he pleaded guilty to entering the playing area during a football match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The court imposed a three-year banning order, issued Mr Griffiths with a \u00a340 fine, and ordered him to pay \u00a385 in costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">PC Ross Bosdorff said Griffiths&#8217; actions were &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Such actions disrupt the game and can put players at unnecessary risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We will take action against fans who enter the playing area during matches.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A football fan has been banned from attending matches for three years after running onto the pitch at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-27440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}