A Wrexham FC supporting thug has been made subject to a five-year banning order following an incident after a match in Accrington.

Blackburn Magistrates' Court heard Lewis Hallam was seen shouting abuse at Accrington Stanley fans, kicking out at one of them and pushing another.

The yob had travelled to the game to support Wrexham, the club owned by Hollywood millionaire actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, in the EFL League 2 fixture.

When officers told him he was being arrested he was hostile in front of members of the public who were clearly in fear of violence.

Hallam, 31, of Hampden Road, Wrexham, pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour in Accrington on November 18, which Stanley won 2-0.

He was made subject to a community order for 12 months with 200 hours unpaid work, £85 costs and a £114 victim surcharge.

He was also made subject to a football banning order for five years after the court heard he had been convicted of throwing a missile onto the playing area in 2012, and a flare-related offence in 2018 which resulted in a three-year banning order.

District Judge Alexandra Preston said Hallam had not learned from previous incidents how to behave as a football supporter.

She said: “I have seen your aggressive, strutting behaviour and it is a complete mystery to me why a grown man, a family man, should choose to behave in this way at what should be a pleasant sporting experience for all the people who attend matches and have to travel to and from the ground.”

Hallam, who was not represented at court, handed in a letter expressing his remorse and regret for what he had done.