A British magistrate on Tuesday ordered 41 year-old Tranmere Rovers supporter Allan Sutton to a pay a £400 and serve a three year ban from any professional football game in the UK for climbing up on an entrance gate roof and “baring his buttocks” in full view of other fans after being refused entry to an August 30th away match at Rovers rival Carlisle United’s field, the BBC reports.
Prosecutor Diane Jackson described Sutton as slurring his words and swaying on his feet during two confrontations with the staff at Brunton Park before he climbed up onto the turnstile roof where he continued to be “aggressive and abusive, shouting at members of the public as they walked past, including families and children. He switched between being abusive, face-timing his friends and sunbathing. At 7:30 BST he made a decision to come down after four-and-a-half hours when he was arrested.” It’s not clear precisely at what point in that timeline the buttocks exposure occurred.
Lead magistrate Jill Robson scolded Sutton, as his “behavior wasted a lot of emergency services workers’ time. That time could have been needed in a more pressing situation than watching you behave in that way on a roof,” before banning him from being within a mile of any professional soccer venue in the United Kingdom for four hours before and after any match until 2027. Probably a lighter sentence than Sutton deserved considering he did five years in the clink for a 2015 incident in which he drunkenly broke into the wrong house and mistakenly beat the shit out of a person within.