{"id":65692,"date":"2025-05-01T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65692\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:47:12","slug":"fan-at-birmingham-city-game-banned-for-shouting-homophobic-abuse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65692\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan at Birmingham City game banned for shouting homophobic abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

A football fan has been banned from attending matches after shouting homophobic abuse at a game in Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Burton Albion fan, Steven Quig, was heard by a steward shouting homophobic abuse inside Birmingham City\u2019s St Andrew\u2019s ground on Boxing Day last year as his team took on the Blues.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old was arrested and then charged with a public order offence of using threatening or abusive words likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Football fan banned from matches and pubs after being found with knuckle duster<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

He admitted the offence and pleaded guilty at Birmingham Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday, April 24.<\/p>\n

The Brewers supporter had previously attended an education course, provided by anti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out, in connection with another hate crime offence.<\/p>\n

He had completed it and signed an acceptable behaviour contract with Burton Albion last September.<\/p>\n

But following his latest offence, Quig was banned for three years from attending matches.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: The ‘pathetic’ football fans banned for tarnishing the beautiful game’s name<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

Pc Stuart Ward – who was appointed the UK’s first dedicated hate crime officer within a football unit – said: \u201cThere is no place for discrimination within football, and society in general.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuig has quite rightly been banned from football. His behaviour was offensive, and unacceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need victims to report what has happened and with the support of the wider public we can bring those responsible to justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuig should feel embarrassed by what he did, and hopefully this will make him and others realise that such appalling behaviour will not be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anyone who has been a victim of a football-related hate crime, or has information about an offence, can contact police via the Live Chat service on the West Midlands Police<\/a> website or by calling 101.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A football fan has been banned from attending matches after shouting homophobic abuse at a game in Birmingham.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,7847,748,33554,393,28958,4884,33556,33555,33553,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-65692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city","10":"tag-birmingham-magistrates-court","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-burton-albion","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-football-fan","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-homophobic-abuse","17":"tag-public-order-offence","18":"tag-steven-quig","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114432655006540824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65692","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=65692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}