{"id":330428,"date":"2025-08-09T11:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330428\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:33:11","slug":"birmingham-city-1-1-ipswich-town-fa-and-police-investigating-after-blues-fan-appeared-to-try-to-hit-jack-taylor-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330428\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City 1-1 Ipswich Town: FA and police investigating after Blues fan appeared to try to hit Jack Taylor | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FA and police are investigating an incident which saw a Birmingham City fan appear to try to hit Ipswich Town midfielder Jack Taylor.<\/p>\n

The flashpoint occurred as Ipswich players celebrated their late equaliser at St Andrew’s, with the bad-tempered Championship curtain-raiser ending 1-1 on Friday.<\/p>\n

The FA confirmed to Sky Sports News that it would be investigating, while West Midlands Police said in a statement: “We’re aware of the incident and are liaising with the club and reviewing CCTV footage to establish the full circumstances.”<\/p>\n

A source told Sky Sports News that referee Andrew Kitchen and the EFL were also aware of Taylor’s claims following the game.<\/p>\n

Tempers flared after Ipswich were awarded a controversial stoppage-time penalty. Striker George Hirst converted it and the Ipswich players celebrated in front of a stand filled with Birmingham supporters.<\/p>\n

Both sets of players clashed, with one melee spilling off the pitch towards a section of the crowd.<\/p>\n

Footage shows a fan hurdling a fence and running towards the scene with security and stewards having to intervene and wrestle him to the ground.<\/p>\n

Taylor was at the centre of the dispute attempting to protect team-mate Conor Chaplin.<\/p>\n

Chaplin was booked for kicking the ball into the stand behind the goal following Hirst’s equaliser.<\/p>\n

Sky Sports News has also contacted Birmingham City and the EFL for comment.<\/p>\n

McKenna on altercation after Hirst equaliser <\/p>\n

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Chris Davies and Kieran McKenna share their thoughts on the late penalty drama and player aggro at St Andrew’s during Birmingham’s 1-1 draw with Ipswich<\/p>\n

Ipswich <\/strong>boss Kieran McKenna<\/strong> was asked about the altercation between the Birmingham fan and his players after Hirst’s equaliser. “It’ll be seen and reported and let’s see what happens,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think there might have been an incident with the crowd and one of the players, that wasn’t ideal. In terms of the players on the pitch [clashing], emotions run high at those moments and it’s understandable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FA and police are investigating an incident which saw a Birmingham City fan appear to try to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-330428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998594979688370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}