HEREFORD football fans have avoided a football banning order after invading the pitch at a match in Bromley.

Matthew Price, Harvey Jones, and 24-year-old Connor Robert Smith entered a guilty plea to one count of going onto the playing area at a football match when they appeared before magistrates in Bromley, London, in November.

The court heard 31-year-old Price, 18-year-old Jones, had without lawful excuse or authority, gone onto the playing area during a football match at Bromley Football Club in Hayes Lane, Bromley, on October 15.

Smith also admitted possessing a quantity of class A controlled drug cocaine at Bromley Football Club on the same date.

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Price, of Fallowfield Close, Hereford, was fined £153 and must pay costs of £85 and a £61 victim surcharge.

Jones, of Burley Gate, Herefordshire, was fined £40 and must pay costs of £85 and a £16 victim surcharge.

Smith, of Longmeadow, Hereford, was fined £312 and must pay costs of £85 and a £125 victim surcharge.

Magistrates said they would not be issuing football banning orders as it was a very short incident, no aggression was witnessed, and they returned over the barrier promptly.

Smith's cocaine was ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.

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