A Manchester City supporter has received a five-year ban from football matches after racially abusing Raheem Sterling. The defendant, from Bradley Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty in September to causing racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress. On Friday, he was sentenced at Manchester Magistrates’ Court and also ordered to complete 200 hours of community service and pay £170 court costs. In a witness statement the supporter told police “it was disgusting in this day and age that this was going on. Last season a banana was thrown at Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang by a Tottenham fan, while Sterling was subjected to alleged racist abuse in a match at Chelsea.

Source: Punch January 10, 2020 18:11 UTC