Two football fans who set off smoke bombs inside Old Trafford have been banned from attending matches. Andrew Chambers and Bradley Lilliman set the flares off after smuggling them into the FA Youth Cup final between Manchester United and Nottingham Forest at on May 11.
United won the match 3-1 in front of a crowd of more than 67,000. Chambers, 55, and Lilliman, 18, were later charged with possession of a flare at a sporting event.
The pair received three-year football banning orders at Manchester Magistrates' Court last Tuesday (June 28) after pleading guilty to the charge. Chambers, of Shirland Drive, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was ordered to pay costs of £107 and Lilliman, of Victoria Street, Newark, Nottinghamshire, was also ordered to pay a surcharge of £22.
