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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jordan Reynolds

Balaclava-wearing men drive hearse onto football pitch in Gateshead

A pre-season match between two non-league teams had to be abandoned after men wearing balaclavas drove a hearse on to the pitch and leaflets were scattered on the floor.

The friendly between Gateshead and Dunston was called off on Friday at half time, after the hearse was driven on to the pitch at Dunston’s UTS Stadium, Tyne and Wear, along with a Subaru, shortly before 8.20pm.

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