Andy Nicholls
| Andy Nicholls | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 54–55) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Football hooliganism |
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Andy Nicholls (born 1962), is an English former football hooligan, manager, and author of a number of books on football hooliganism. He has been banned from every ground in England and Wales. He was banned for life from the home ground of the team he supports but the club allowed him back in due to the amount of work he does for their charity Everton in the Community Everton, Goodison Park. and has served three months in prison for football related violence.
When he was a boy he went to the Alun School in Flintshire. For over twenty years he was regularly involved with the violent followers of the club. Nicholls was classified by the National Football Intelligence Unit (NFIU) as a Category C hooligan, the highest NFIU rating. He has been arrested more than twenty times for football related offences and has been deported from Belgium, Iceland and Sweden. He created the terrace fanzine Get into Them which was closed down by authorities.
Nicholls received a new Football Banning Order (FBO) on 6 October 2003 banning him from every football ground in England and Wales for two years, apart from games where he was there as manager of Welsh Alliance League club, Holywell Town F.C. when he admitted to being involved in football hooliganism in his book, Scally: Confessions of a Category C Football Hooligan and for his involvement in a pub fight between Everton and Aston Villa fans, in which he claimed he was only helping injured victims to escape. He had been summoned to Liverpool Magistrates Court under the Football Disorder Act over the publication of the book, and banned for two years, with £500 costs.
In April 2004, Nicholls was convicted by Flintshire magistrates for breaching the banning order, after he attended a match in Russia between Wales and Russia. Nicholls who lived in Rhosesmor in North East Wales, at the time had attended the match as part of a Holywell Town club trip. Nicholls claimed that he did not know the ban applied to Welsh games, as being an England supporter he thought the ban only applied to England. Nicholls would later become chairman of Holywell Town. Nicholls' ban from Everton means he has to stay a minimum of 10 miles from any match they play home or away. As part of his banning order he also had to sign in at a Police station on match days, and hand in his passport every time a British team played abroad. His banning order expired in 2005.
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