Leeds Utd hands a red card to great-grandma who stepped on to pitch

A GREAT-GRANDMA has been banned from Leeds United matches for 12 months after she stepped on to the pitch.

Margaret Musgrove, 63, was seen on video stepping out of the North Stand and approaching players with her arms in the air during the last game of the season against Burnley in May.

Club stewards grabbed her and hauled her into the club’s holding cells. She was arrested but police later released her without charge. However, she was handed an automatic ban and had her season ticket seized.

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Mrs Musgrove, from Bradford, who has 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, has asked the club to reduce the punishment.

She says she is owed hundreds of pounds after paying instalments towards a 2011/12 senior citizens’ season ticket which costs from £363.

She said: “It’s not like I am a hooligan. People who do much worse than this get the same ban.

“A suspension from a few games would have hurt, but I already feel like I have been punished enough.”

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She added: “I’ve followed Leeds for years - I just got carried away.”

Leeds United safety officer Sue Kilroy said in a letter to Mrs Musgroverave: “It is a requirement of attendance at Leeds United home and away fixtures that supporters do not behave in any way contrary to the rules and regulations of the Football Association, Leeds United Football Club or the equivalent policies and rules at other Association Football Clubs.

“We have reason to believe that [Margaret Musgrove] may have acted in breach of these requirements.

“Accordingly you are suspended from all fixtures and your right to purchase tickets to attend away fixtures is also suspended.”

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