{"id":789804,"date":"2026-10-02T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789804\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:32:10","slug":"two-fans-burned-by-flare-thrown-at-fratton-park-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789804\/","title":{"rendered":"Two fans burned by flare thrown at Fratton Park match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two football fans suffered burns and a five-year-old boy&#8217;s clothes were damaged when a flare was thrown into a crowd during a match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It happened during Portsmouth FC&#8217;s game against Blackburn Rovers at Fratton Park on 19 September, when the flare was thrown from the away section into a group of Portsmouth supporters in the Milton stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 46-year-old woman from Havant and a 26-year-old man from Gosport suffered minor burns, while the boy, also from Gosport, had his clothing damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire Police has released images of a man it wants to speak to in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The images, captured on CCTV at the ground, have also been shared with Lancashire Constabulary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force has asked anyone who recognises the man, or has information about the incident, to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two football fans suffered burns and a five-year-old boy&#8217;s clothes were damaged when a flare was thrown into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789804","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=789804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}