{"id":591533,"date":"2025-11-24T21:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591533\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:28:20","slug":"ban-called-for-after-criminal-offence-during-leeds-united-loss-to-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591533\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban called for after &#8216;criminal offence&#8217; during Leeds United loss to Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Farke-Emery-1140x641.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Daniel Farke looks confused and Unai Emery shouts\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credit Imago)<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_372CA71C7FF4-1-279x300.jpeg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"George Overhill\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Mon 24 November 2025 19:10, UK <\/p>\n<p><strong>The atmosphere among Leeds United fans continued to deteriorate after the latest defeat at Elland Road on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/opinion\/pascal-struijk-self-destructs-daniel-farke-hooks-stand-out-star-leeds-united-player-ratings-vs-aston-villa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds were beaten 2-1 after Aston Villa<\/a> came from behind, with Morgan Rogers\u2019 double cancelling out <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/matchday\/absolutely-wonderful-chris-sutton-wowed-by-sean-longstaff-in-chaotic-leeds-incident-vs-aston-villa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lukas Nmecha\u2019s scrappy opener from a Sean Longstaff free kick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The loss made it three on the spin in the Premier League and ramped up <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/news\/daniel-farke-sack-latest-as-update-over-possible-new-leeds-boss-waiting-in-the-wings-emerges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressure around manager Daniel Farke\u2019s Leeds job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters were clearly unhappy with the second-half proceedings against Villa as the home side lost their lead and at one stage a fan entered the pitch from the <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Stand<\/a> in an attempt to approach the <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds<\/a> dug-out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith Hackett says Leeds fan should have been arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former PGMOL boss and ex-Premier League referee <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/tag\/keith-hackett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keith Hackett<\/a> has condemned the actions of the lone supporter.<\/p>\n<p>He is clear that Leeds should issue a ban against the fan and that an arrest should have been made at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt is a criminal offence for a fan to enter the field of play. So having been prevented from confronting a member of Leeds United staff the fan should have been handed over to the police in order for an appropriate arrest and charge to be made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously Leeds United should take action by banning the fan from Elland Road. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/imago1069025638-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Farke ahead of Leeds' match with Nottingham Forest\" class=\"wp-image-212810\" \/>Credit: Imago<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst I understand fans\u2019 frustration with the\u00a0Leeds manager, equally [however] frustrated this does not excuse this fan\u2019s behaviour.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man City thrashing could end Farke reign<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the Whites lost at Brighton and Nottingham Forest back to back before the international break all eyes turned to getting a result against Villa ahead of the daunting run of games against Man City, Chelsea and Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>For the first 45 minutes it appeared <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/tag\/daniel-farke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farke<\/a> had done exactly what he needed to do to get his players to save his job.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li>Man City vs Leeds United \u2013 3pm, 29 November, Etihad<\/li>\n<li>Leeds United vs Chelsea \u2013 8.15pm 3 December, Elland Road<\/li>\n<li>Leeds United vs Liverpool \u2013 4.30pm 6 December, Elland Road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The German\u2019s players were relentless for much of the half, even if the goal itself had a major slice of fortuned attached to it.<\/p>\n<p>But after the break the game was turned on its head precious points went begging, with a trip to the Etihad next up on Saturday potentially defining for Farke.<\/p>\n<p>City might not be the juggernaut of years past currently but if Erling Haaland is on his game the scoreline could get ugly, and potentially force the <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/owners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">49ers<\/a>\u2018 hand on a change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoyed this article?<\/strong> Stay connected with all the latest Leeds United news, updates, and behind-the-scenes content by following us on our new Instagram account \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/goodisonnews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/motleedsnews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@motleedsnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit Imago) Mon 24 November 2025 19:10, UK The atmosphere among Leeds United fans continued to deteriorate after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,2696,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-591533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-keith-hackett","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115606804195740739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591533","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=591533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}