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‘I don’t know what came over me’ – Man United fan banned for three years

Howard Hobson has been found guilty of racially abusing Kenwyne Jones on January 31.

Hobson coming out of court today.
Hobson coming out of court today.
Image: Dave Thompson/PA Wire/Press Association Images

A MAN WHO SHOUTED racist abuse at one of Stoke City’s players during the Premier League match at Old Trafford last month has been fined and prohibited from attending football matches for three years.

Manchester United fan Howard Hobson pleaded guilty of a racially-aggravated public order offence at Trafford Magistrate Court today but insisted that he was not a racist.

The 57-year-old said he was “deeply sorry” after admitting to calling Stoke striker Kenwyne Jones a “black bastard” and making monkey chants at the player from the North Stand on January 31.

He was taken away by stewards at the beginning of the second half and then brought to Salford Police Station.

I have coloured people in my family and most of my best mates are coloured. I don’t know what came over me,” a remorseful Hobson said on the Manchester Evening News.

As well as being ordered to pay €240, he was banned from being admitted to a football ground in England and Wales for a three year period.

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Comments (8 Comments)

  • Coloured? White, Black, brown, Yellow, Red, Afro-UK, Afro American? All these different P.C terms in case someone gets offended. Racial slurs goes on in every race and society, between the various races and within those races. There’s only one race: The Human Race. That’s all that matters.

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    • Tell that to the black lad being called a dirty nigger. Racism exists, yes you’re right there, and probably in every country. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean you can just dismiss it, people get seriously hurt from it, and if you’re white and live in Ireland, the chances you know nothing about being on the negative end of it.

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    • your so wrong gordon, racisam works both ways it’s just that the politically correct brigade and all its minions only see it as a one way street, when was the last time you heard of a white person winning a dismissal case on the grounds of race? never because it wouldn’t happen. i have worked black people before and 90% of them are sound, good workers and no problems but there is a minority who look for any excuse to pull the race card, and that minority is growing, strangely enough the biggest culprets are those of mixed race, they dont just have a chip on their shoulder, they have a whole sack of spuds. also being english in ireland get you quite a lot of insults,usually when the perpertrators are pissed and the ‘oirish reble’ in them rears its ugly head, do i go running to a solicitor are race counciler? no i don’t, i ignore them and soon enough they realise that their tiny little no functioning brain can’t find a way to get at me and they leave.

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    • Sorry Eric, but YOU are so wrong, and clearly have several chips on your shoulders with black and mixed race people. Go preach with bad grammar elsewhere. “90% of blacks are sound”, LOL!!

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  • The dirty rat, ban him for life and nothing else. What sort of mentality of a 57 year old man can come out with this! No excuse for any age group but you’d think he would know better.

    He got away light.

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  • did he say he has “coloured” friends and “coloured” people in his family???????????. remember not so long ago Hansen getting into a bit of trouble over that phrase

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  • is this headline news in all the redtops? no of course not ,he’s a utd fan and therefore he made a mistake and is not at all racist. my arse!

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  • Cheek of that tan on our journal!!!!

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