As well as being known as one of the greatest ginger footballers of his generation, Manchester United legend Paul Scholes is also famously an Oldham Athletic fan.
And those generous Latics fans clearly feel all clubs should have a flame-haired contingent among their number after a baffling outbreak of supporters trying to set alight rival fans’ hair.
Apparently a number of Oldham match-goers have been kicked out of Boundary Park for combining their love of pyrotechnics with amateur hairdressing. The results have met with varying success, but so far the only real damage has been some isolated cases of severe singeing.
An Oldham statement, released on their official website, urged those planning trouble to watch their hot-headed behaviour, with Greater Manchester Police now involved in identifying culprits.
“Latics are warning fans that anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated at Boundary Park,” said the statement. “We have recently had supporters ejected for such offences as bottle throwing and attempting to light people’s hair with cigarette lighters. This is totally unacceptable behaviour and cannot be tolerated.
“Greater Manchester Police have ‘spotters’ attending all games that are not policed and are aware of these incidents.”
The incidents are just the latest in several instances of anti-social behaviour to take place at Oldham this season,
Manchester police say fans have been committing a range of offences, including throwing coins and bottles at players, with the Lactics’ £10 season ticket offer being blamed for attracting a number of troublemakers and twats from the local area. By Manchester police’s logic, therefore, clubs with expensive season tickets shouldn’t have any crowd trouble or instances of items being thrown onto the pitch. And this is the same police force that covered the Manchester derby right?
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