Ashes fans ordered to remove ‘Just Top Soil’ T-shirts at Old Trafford

ASHES fans overstepped the boundary — with jokey “Just Top Soil” T-shirts.

A dad and his son were told their orange tops were offensive and were ordered to remove them at Old Trafford.

They had worn them to poke fun at Just Stop Oil activists who disrupted the Ashes Test at Lord’s last month.

Fellow fan David McKellen, 48, chatted to the pair, from London, before seeing them surrounded in a hospitality area by what he claimed were five police.

The IT manager of Bolton said: “It was nonsense.

“Around 4pm some police officers came over and said they had received a complaint and they needed to remove their shirts or leave.

“The guys weren’t very happy.

“They had to change.

“Some of the staff thought it a bit heavy-handed and gave them free drinks.”

A Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said their officers were not involved in Wednesday’s incident and club officials were responsible.

Assistant Editor of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack Kit Harris said: “The aim [of Just Stop Oil’s campaign] appears to be to take a cause with which the majority of people might naturally be sympathetic and make it as unpopular as possible.”

England are trailing 2-1 in the series.

Lancashire Cricket Club has been contacted.