A football fan who ripped up pages torn from a the Koran at a football match, and told a steward 'we hate Muslims'
Middlesbrough fan Mark Stephenson, 25, was at an away game in Birmingham when he was handed pages of the Muslim holy book by a fellow supporter.
He proceeded to rip up the pages, and gestured with a lighter as if he were about to set them on fire.
The 'through and through fan', part of a group of 20 attending a championship game between Middlesbrough and Birmingham City, was asked by a steward what the book was.
Stephenson, who had been drinking, replied: 'It's the Muslim Bible, we hate Muslims.'
.... Stephenson, a season ticket holder, was fined £235 by magistrates, who heard he was 'shocked and appalled' at his own actions. [Daily Mail] Read more
