Burnley side is not the most offending football fan base but could be seen among the top offenders as data reveals.It comes as westham United is seen to occupy the top spot.
Hammers fans were arrested 89 times for football related incidents last season, according to the latest figures from the Home Office. That’s more than fans of any other club.
total of 27 arrests were for public disorder, while another 23 were for throwing missiles. That’s by far the highest number of arrests for throwing missiles. Manchester United had the next highest number of arrests with a total of 83
Leeds United have the next most with 69, followed by Manchester City with 66, Arsenal with 51, Tottenham with 51 and Burnley with 50. There were a total of 2,264 football related arrests in the top five divisions in England and Wales last season.
That’s up from 2,198 the season before. It’s also the highest number since the 2013/14 season when there were 2,273.
Notwithstanding,football matches had a summed up number of 45.5 million people to the home office figure.
Incidents of hate crime fell at football matches last season. A total of 370 hate crimes were reported to police, down from 384 the season before.
Race hate crimes made up 248 of the total last season, down from 383 the season before. Sexual orientation hate crime was up to 119 incidents though from 106 the season before.
Religious hate crime increased from 14 to 21 last season, while disability hate crime rose from eight to 15, and gender identity from three to four.
The number of active banning orders rose last season from 1,3088 to 1,624, with 682 new ones being issued. That’s the highest number of new banning orders since 2011 when 960 were issued.
With this statistics Burnley football club manager Vincent Kompany and the director of football Paul Jenkins and the chief executive officer Helen German would see that their fan base is not as worrisome as speculated.