FOUR English football fans who travelled to Glasgow for the Scotland v England match were fined a total of £6,000 for fighting in a hotel.
George Policelli, 34, from Oxford, Charles Kennett, 35, Portsmouth, Darren Bigglestone, 48, from Berkshire and Lee George, 36, from Portsmouth all admitted shouting and taking part in a fight on November 18, 2014.
The melee at the Thistle Hotel, Cambridge Street, Glasgow, was sparked because the four men believed they were getting tickets to the game and became annoyed when no tickets were available.
The court heard that because game was being shown live at the hotel it was treated as an offence under the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.
Sheriff Bill Totten fined the four £1,500 each but told them he wasn’t going to impose a football banning order.
He told them: “The catalyst of this incident, as it has been presented to me was the difficulty with football tickets and is plain from everything I have been told it is recognised the incident had been sparked by the conduct of someone else.”
England won the friendly, which was held at Celtic Park, 3-1.
Four other men’s pleas of not guilty were accepted.
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