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LANCASHIRE Football Association is holding an investigation after Bacup Borough’s derby with Nelson was abandoned after a fight involving spectators and players.
Trouble flared off the field after Bacup midfielder Lee Anderson suffered a facial injury in a challenge during the game.
Anderson’s father, who was watching the game and expressed an opinion on how his son had suffered his injury, was then attacked by other spectators.
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Players from both sides then got involved in the fracas off the field and the game was abandoned.
LFA discipline officer Miss Hayley Mather said: ‘We will be making a full investigation and we are waiting for more evidence.’
Miss Mather said the LFA would consider reports from the referee and his assistants before issuing charges, if any. Evidence of injuries, such as the picture of Lee Anderson, would also be considered.
Any players or officials cited in the report then have the opportunity to either accept the charges or appeal.
Bacup Borough boss Brent Peters believes the appointment of a match referee – with, he claims, strong Nelson connections – contributed to the subsequent events.
And he has written to the LFA and asked them to hold an inquiry into why he was appointed for the fixture.
Peters said the referee was inconsistent and got major decisions wrong.
And the Borough boss has called for the official to be suspended pending the inquiry.
Peters said: ‘I have never known or seen anything like it. It was bizarre.’
Peters said Bacup player Carl Rezia was subjected to racial abuse and called a ‘black ***t’.
The Borough player turned to the ref and asked what he was going to do about the abuse but was told to get on with the game.
Rezia was so incensed by the remark that he made a reckless challenge and was sent off after only nine minutes.
Peters said: ‘That is absolutely outrageous. What has gone on with the racial abuse is what it all started from. That is what lit the blue touch paper. The FA are spending thousands of pounds to combat racial abuse in football.’
Bacup’s goalkeeper Billy Carrington was sent off later in the game and Borough were trailing 3-0 when the game was abandoned in the second half.
Anderson, who has a fractured cheekbone, has left the next course of action up to Bacup boss Brent Peters, who is taking legal advice.
Joe Boyle
First published by the Rossendale Free Press
Trouble flared off the field after Bacup midfielder Lee Anderson suffered a facial injury in a challenge during the game.
Anderson’s father, who was watching the game and expressed an opinion on how his son had suffered his injury, was then attacked by other spectators.
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Players from both sides then got involved in the fracas off the field and the game was abandoned.
LFA discipline officer Miss Hayley Mather said: ‘We will be making a full investigation and we are waiting for more evidence.’
Miss Mather said the LFA would consider reports from the referee and his assistants before issuing charges, if any. Evidence of injuries, such as the picture of Lee Anderson, would also be considered.
Any players or officials cited in the report then have the opportunity to either accept the charges or appeal.
Bacup Borough boss Brent Peters believes the appointment of a match referee – with, he claims, strong Nelson connections – contributed to the subsequent events.
And he has written to the LFA and asked them to hold an inquiry into why he was appointed for the fixture.
Peters said the referee was inconsistent and got major decisions wrong.
And the Borough boss has called for the official to be suspended pending the inquiry.
Peters said: ‘I have never known or seen anything like it. It was bizarre.’
Peters said Bacup player Carl Rezia was subjected to racial abuse and called a ‘black ***t’.
The Borough player turned to the ref and asked what he was going to do about the abuse but was told to get on with the game.
Rezia was so incensed by the remark that he made a reckless challenge and was sent off after only nine minutes.
Peters said: ‘That is absolutely outrageous. What has gone on with the racial abuse is what it all started from. That is what lit the blue touch paper. The FA are spending thousands of pounds to combat racial abuse in football.’
Bacup’s goalkeeper Billy Carrington was sent off later in the game and Borough were trailing 3-0 when the game was abandoned in the second half.
Anderson, who has a fractured cheekbone, has left the next course of action up to Bacup boss Brent Peters, who is taking legal advice.
Joe Boyle
First published by the Rossendale Free Press