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SAFC fan banned for racism

A Sunderland supporter has been given an 18-month conditional discharge after admitting to racially aggravated behaviour.

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Sunderland fan Liam Jones has been banned

Liam Jones at a previous hearing Credit: PA

Sunderland fan Liam Jones was given an 18-month conditional discharge after admitting causing racially aggravated harassment while watching Sunderland lose to West Brom.

Jones, 22, from East Vines in Hendon, was pictured making a monkey gesture toward striker Romelu Lukaku in November.

He said he was doing a "chicken dance" and pleaded not guilty to the charge, but at a hearing last week Jones entered a guilty plea. He was handed a three-year football banning order and an 18-month conditional discharge.

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