Last night, Nottingham Forest took a step closer to Premier League qualification by beating Sheffield United in the play-offs. Forest fans immediately flooded the pitch to celebrate, with one fan mindlessly running up to Sheffield United striker Billy Sharp and head-butting him…
Absolutely cowardly thug assaults Billy Sharp after Sheffield Utd lose Championship play off semi final to Nottingham Forest. Find it. Jail him. Disgusting. pic.twitter.com/jkmGhSAPLJ
— Project Football (@ProjectFootball) May 17, 2022
Imagine getting the result you dreamed of and celebrating by viciously assaulting a player on the losing team who was just minding his own business. A 31-year-old man has since been arrested and jailed. Can’t wait for him to wake up this morning and vaguely remember that he headbutted Billy Sharp and it was all captured on Sky TV and resulted in his arrest.
Sheffield Utd manager Paul Heckingbottom told Sky:
“It’s assault. We’ve seen one of our players attacked. He’s shuck up, bleeding, angry. It’ll be dealt with.
We’re seeing things thrown on the pitch and things that are thrown on putting players’ health and safety in danger and nothing’s ever done about it. There will be something done about that. We’ve seen what’s happened, we know what’s happened.
How can you come to a place of work minding your own business and be assaulted in that fashion? It’s just bang out of order and it’s everything that’s wrong. Too many times we hear people condemn it, but nothing’s done about it. We’re the ones that suffered.”
Sharp needed stitches but was otherwise fine – let’s hope that heals up nicely.
For the drunk wrestling fan who jumped into the middle of a midget match and got absolutely battered, click HERE.
