More than 100 children under 18 including a boy aged TWELVE have been handed football banning orders
Youngsters have been bragging on social media about being slapped with a Football Banning Order
MORE than 100 boys as young as 12 have been banned from football matches in the past three years, The Sun Online can reveal.
Official statistics have exposed a lack of consistency between forces with one constabulary having barred 43 teenagers from matches, and another none.
The Freedom of Information request found the 12-year-old was banned after widespread disorder in
Newcastle city centre after the Magpies were beaten 3-0 at home by arch rivals Sunderland in April 2013.
Northumbria Police said the boy threw missiles at opposition fans and was abusive.
The same force banned a total of 43 under 18s in the three years up to April this year.
They were 38 Newcastle United fans and five Sunderland fans.
It comes after dozens of England fans were arrested in the first week of the Euro 2016 in France, including a 16-year-old held in Marseille.
The Football Banning Order figures also suggest that football hooliganism has retained its allure for teenagers.
It has also emerged children have been using the FBO as a way to get “street cred” by getting "casual" clothing labels sewn into their school uniforms.
Other "schooligans" were even found to pose up on social media while bragging about the title.
It has led to concerned police visiting schools to warn pupils they could end up with a serious criminal record in organised violence.
In Bury young fans causing trouble at the League One club have been told they are endangering the future of their club by causing policing costs to soar.
Cleveland Police said a 14-year-old fan had received a banning order in the past three years but would not give details of the club he supported.
It said another 11 under 18s were banned.
In Scotland, 13 under 18s who support Rangers, Hamilton, Motherwell, Hearts, Dunfermline, Dundee United, Hibernian and Celtic were banned.
And in London, the figure was 10, with teenage followers of Wimbledon, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Brentford, Fulham, QPR and Millwall banned from watching games.
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But Greater Manchester Police, which looks after Manchester United and City as well as fierce rivals in
lower leagues such as Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale and Wigan, had no under 18s on a ban.
Dr Geoff Pearson, a senior law lecturer at Manchester University, said there were "huge discrepancies" between forces about how they used the Football Banning Order legislation.
He said in Europe, fans groups and clubs ran education programmes for youngsters encouraging them to keep out of trouble.
Amanda Jacks, a case worker with the Football Supporters' Federation, said: “There's no doubt that there is a glamorisation of football disorder and kids are attracted to it for the wrong reason.
"There does need to be some consistency - if 14, 15, 16-year-olds are getting banning orders, that should be the last resort, not the first."
The figures also showed a there were more than 120 of over 50s, including a 60-year-old Arsenal fan and a man of 64 in the Lancashire Police area, who have been banned from attending games in the last three years.
The Home Office said in September there were 2,181 people with a football banning order.
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