A soccer fan received jail time after attacking a referee for sending off three of his team's players during a Cup final. Scott Prew knocked Bill Pashby to the floor, dislocating the official's shoulder and causing severe tendon damage.
A BOOZY soccer yob left a referee unconscious after he sent off three of his team’s players in a cup final.
Scott Prew ran on to floor Bill Pashby, 63, with an elbow barge, dislocating the official’s shoulder and causing severe tendon damage.
He was stretchered off and taken to hospital. The non-league match was abandoned. Prew, 23, had seen Eastway Sports miss a penalty, suffer a goal ruled out and have two men dismissed as they trailed Goal Sports 2-1.
But he flipped when the ref sent off a third in North Yorkshire’s Scarborough & District Saturday League Trophy.
Prosecutor Austin Newman said: “He’d been drinking. He discarded a can of beer as he ran on. Mr Pashby fell, lost consciousness and dislocated a shoulder.” Mr Pashby added: “This is the first time this has happened to me. Younger refs pack it in because of abuse.”
York crown court’s Judge Paul Batty said: “It’s intolerable that drunks feel they can take a potshot at a ref.”
Prew, of Scarborough, admitted ABH and got 18 months’ jail. Goal Sports were given the cup.
