A pitch invader who lined up with the Australia team before Saturday’s rugby league Test against England has been arrested.<\/p>\n
Daniel Jarvis, a well-known internet prankster who goes by the name ‘Jarvo 69’ on social media, got on to the field as the teams lined up for the national anthems shortly before kick-off at Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium.<\/p>\n
Jarvis was captured on BBC One’s television coverage standing at the end of the line of Australia players, wearing a green and gold team shirt with ‘Jarvo 69’ on the back.<\/p>\n
Merseyside Police said: “We can confirm that officers have detained a man following an incident at Hill Dickinson Stadium, Liverpool this afternoon, Saturday, 1 November.<\/p>\n
“The 37-year-old man from Gravesend, Kent, was detained at around 2.30pm after entering the pitch before the start of the the England v Australia rugby league match.<\/p>\n
“He has been arrested on suspicion of possession of articles for use in fraud and fraud by false representation, and has been taken to a police station for questioning.”<\/p>\n
Neither Everton nor the Rugby Football League commented when approached by BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
But it is understood that the incident will form part of an RFL internal review of the event.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s match was the first non-football event held at Everton’s new stadium since it opened earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Australia won the match 14-4, to secure victory in the three-Test series with a game to spare. The third and final Test will take place at AMT Headingley, in Leeds, next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pitch invader who lined up with the Australia team before Saturday’s rugby league Test against England has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-239159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}