MADRID, 10 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A Manchester City fan received on Friday the five-year sentence banning entry to football stadiums, guilty of racist language over striker Raheem Sterling in a December 2018 match against Bournemouth.
Ian Baldry, 58, was found guilty of racist insults in a court in Manchester, where he excused himself in the excitement of the moment to fall into that racist foul on the English player, while showing his regret, according to the BBC.
Sterling did not notice the insults during the game, but he was heard by some fans, the court learned. Waiting for a sentence is also a friend of Baldry for racist insults against Tyrone Mings, a Bournemouth player.
Both were denounced to the police by an amateur who was in the game, who, as a witness, denounced the “unpleasant” action that was happening, “surprised, offended and nauseous to hear” what he had to hear.
“The type of language used by you risks a wider public disorder in the parties and could encourage others to behave in the same way,” Judge John Temperely said in his sentence.