Man City fan who'd drunk six pints is banned from ALL games for three years over what he said to Liverpool supporters

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A lifelong Manchester City fan has been banned from all football games for three years for 'tragedy chanting' at Liverpool supporters during a Premiership match at Anfield.

Valve factory worker Stephen Tierney, 47, was detained by security staff after he taunted rival fans with shouts of 'murdering b******s' - said to be a reference to the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster which claimed 39 lives.

When he was hauled out of the 60,000 strong crowd on December 1 last year Tierney, a City season ticket holder for 30 years who has attended 800 games, immediately apologised and pleaded: ''I have been an idiot.

Please do not ban me." Appearing in court, he said: "I have never been in this situation before. I am shaking like a leaf. Football has been my life since I was a child.