A Hereford fan has been given a suspended sentence after trouble at Chester City last February.
Mark Macdonald, 61, of Bridge Street, Leominster, was captured on police drone footage breaking off a piece of wood from a sign and chasing after a supporter following the match according to a report in the Cheshire Standard.
Defending, Catherine Higham said Macdonald had entered a prompt guilty plea on the first occasion he was able to view the footage with a solicitor present.
The offence had been "spontaneous" in response to seeing a man in a pool of blood on the floor, and he wanted to "ward off people who he believed had caused the injury", but accepted he had gone about that the wrong way.
Macdonald was "thoroughly embarrassed by his actions", which were "isolated behaviour".
He was given a five-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to carry out 120 hours unpaid work.
He was also given a three-year Football Banning Order.