{"id":23228,"date":"2022-06-23T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ban-for-manchester-city-fan-who-threw-flare-on-to-playing-area-in-title-decider"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:11:18","slug":"ban-for-manchester-city-fan-who-threw-flare-on-to-playing-area-in-title-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ban-for-manchester-city-fan-who-threw-flare-on-to-playing-area-in-title-decider","title":{"rendered":"Ban for Manchester City fan who threw flare on to playing area in title decider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manchester City fan who threw a lit smoke flare on to the playing area during the club&#8217;s vital season-ending clash with Aston Villa has received a three-year football banning order.Phillip Maxwell, 29, from Knowsley, Merseyside, hurled the missile across the heads of supporters and stewards after City equalised in the 78th minute on their way to a dramatic 3-2 win to clinch the Premier League title.Manchester Magistrates&#8217; Court heard a police spotter captured the incident at the Etihad Stadium on May 22.Shahid Khan, prosecuting, said: &#8220;We would submit there was a clear risk to injury.&#8221;He quoted recent Home Office figures which had showed an 18.6% increase last season in the use of pyrotechnics across the top five divisions of English football, compared to the pre-Covid 2019\/20 season.A total of 20 smoke flares were lit at the City-Villa fixture alone with some hitting supporters, he added.A view of the the Premier League Trophy in Manchester City colours (Mike Egerton\/PA) (PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Manchester City fan who threw a lit smoke flare on to the playing area during the club&#8217;s vital season-ending clash with Aston Villa has received a three-year football banning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[139,138,58],"class_list":["post-23228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}