Five Herefordshire men have been jailed and given football banning orders after an attack on a Shrewsbury Town supporter after a match at Edgar Street last April.
This from the Hereford Times:
Anthony Bird, Sam Mulvey, Daniel Hall, Robert Downing and Anthony Calandra - all from Herefordshire - were part of a gang that attacked 20-year-old Shrewsbury Town fan Benjamin Hayman in St Owen Street following a match on April 28 last year.
They were sent to prison or young offenders institutes for between four and nine months, and banned from football grounds for between six and ten years after pleading guilty to violent disorder.
Judge John Cavell said the group indulged in gratuitous violence on other supporters'.
He sentenced Bird, aged 23 from Prior Street to nine months in prison; Mulvey, aged 19 from Bargates, Leominster to six months in a young offenders institute; Hall, aged 21 from Hinton Avenue, Hereford, to six months in prison; Downing, aged 20 from Sunningdale, Leominster, to four months in a young offenders institute; and Calandra, aged 30 from Ledbury Road, Hereford to nine months in prison.
Calandra was given a ten year football banning order preventing him from going near Edgar Street on Hereford United home match days, and within a 10 mile radius of an away ground where Hereford United may be playing.
The other four received six year banning orders. The Judge said Calandra's ban was longer because of his two previous convictions for football related disorder.
Calandra is believed to have been involved in football violence at Doncaster in April 2002 and at Burton in September 2003.
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Next Game: Scarborough In The League At Edgar Street On Tuesday 19th November At 7.45pm