A man who racially abused Brentford’s Ivan Toney on social media has become the first person to be banned from every English stadium under the police, crime, sentencing and courts act.
Antonio Neill, 24, sent the message via Toney’s Instagram account in October last year and the player shared it publicly, prompting a police investigation.
Neill, of Robert Street, North Shields, pleaded guilty before Newcastle magistrates on 25 January to sending an offensive message. On Monday he received a four-month sentence suspended for two years and a three-year ban from attending football matches…
