{"id":8878,"date":"2026-08-05T17:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:22:37","slug":"football-ban-for-charlton-fan-who-assaulted-police-officer-at-swansea-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=8878","title":{"rendered":"Football ban for Charlton fan who assaulted police officer at Swansea game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Charlton fan was slapped with a football ban after he admitted assault on a police officer in Swansea.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Smith, 55, of Okehampton Crescent in Welling, pleaded guilty to assaulting an officer in the execution of his duty.<\/p>\n<p>This happened in Swansea on May 2 when Charlton Athletic ended the Championship season with a 3-1 defeat to Swansea City.<\/p>\n<p>Smith appeared at Swansea Magistrates&#039; Court on Monday (August 3).<\/p>\n<p>He was given a football banning order lasting four years.<\/p>\n<p>Bexleyheath mum admits dealing cocaine but denies taking kid to drug deal<\/p>\n<p>Shortlands railway station flasher sentenced to unpaid work<\/p>\n<p>He is not allowed to come within two miles of The Valley for a period of four hours either side of a home game.<\/p>\n<p>The order also forbids him from entering any town or city where Charlton Athletic are playing on that day.<\/p>\n<p>He was also ordered to pay \u00a350 in compensation to the officer and \u00a3200 in fines.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was also ordered to pay \u00a385 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/uk.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/football-ban-charlton-fan-assaulted-170000027.html' target='_blank'>Read the original article on uk.sports.yahoo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Charlton fan was slapped with a football ban after he admitted assault on a police officer in Swansea. Andrew Smith, 55, of Okehampton Crescent in Welling, pleaded guilty to assaulting an officer in the execution of his duty. This happened in Swansea on May 2 when Charlton Athletic ended the Championship season with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}