TWO football hooligans have been told they could be jailed over disorder at two Oxford United games.

But another was spared prison after the court heard his parents were both terminally ill.

Four men appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court yesterday following trouble surrounding the recent matches against Port Vale and Aldershot.

District Judge Peter Crabtree adjourned sentence on 19-year-old Ashley Creed and told him “custody is my starting point”.

Creed, of Cumnor Road, Boars Hill, admitted using words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress and using words or behaviour to cause a fear of unlawful violence at the Aldershot home game on October 9.

Carolyn Hitchcock, prosecuting, said the bricklayer was in the North Stand and clambered over netting in an attempt to reach the away fans.

Creed was then seen outside the ground after the match as part of a group “of about 150” Oxford fans who “ran at police lines to get to the Aldershot supporters”, Mrs Hitchcock said.

She said Creed was heard goading the Aldershot fans.

Sentencing was adjourned until December 23.

Wayne Cox admitted possession of cocaine, using threatening, abusive or insulting words to cause a fear of unlawful violence in the city centre following the Port Vale clash on October 2. Two assault charges were dropped.

Mrs Hitchcock said the 41-year-old, of Westlands Drive, Northway, punched two Port Vale fans in the face.

She said Cox had been seen to make “cut-throat gestures” at away fans before the game and then “he surfaced again around 6pm in Cornmarket Street”.

Mrs Hitchcock said Cox tapped one Vale fan on the shoulder before punching him and his friend.

Upon arrest he told officers “no defence, it was stupid”.

District Judge Crabtree adjourned sentence until December 16 and said “custody is my starting point”.

Dean Lewis, of Verbena Way, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, admitted the same charges as Creed, also in relation to the Aldershot game Mrs Hitchcock said the 19-year-old – described as having just a “passing interest” in Oxford United – had gone to the ground as the game was finishing.

She said: “Lewis was seen to throw a rock at the (Aldershot fans’) coach. You cannot see that the rock he threw actually broke a bus window, he said it hit the roof.

“In any event he was one of a number of people throwing missiles at the bus.

“He was also seen dropping his trousers and underpants, exposing his buttocks and shouting at the officers ‘let’s be having you, one at a time’.”

Richard Lister, defending, said Lewis’s parents were both terminally ill and that the apprentice chef “feels incredibly ashamed”.

Lewis was given 200 hours’ unpaid work and a three-year football banning order. He was also ordered to pay £85 costs.

Simon Long, 34, of Barton Village Road, Oxford, admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour and resisting arrest at the Aldershot match.

Mrs Hitchcock said he swore at a mounted police officer and threatened him before trying to evade Pc Paul Phillips.

John Berry, defending, said the married father-of-five was as an occasional football spectator who “got swept along with the crowd”.

Long was fined £300, £85 costs and a £15 victims’ surcharge. He was also given a three-year banning order.