Row over Huddersfield Town mum ejected from stands at Everton’s Goodison Park
Allan Jones and Partner Sarah Hargreaves with baby Cole Jone
A MUM is amazed that football club stewards forced her to move out of a soccer stand ... because she had her baby son with her.
Sarah Hargreaves claims the Everton stewards then moved her to a more dangerous part of the ground – but the club has denied this.
Sarah, 25, took her four-month-old son, Cole Jones, to Goodison Park to see Town’s Carling Cup clash with the Merseyside Premiership team on August 25.
The baby was attached to her in a sling and has, along with her other children, gone to games at the Galpharm since being just weeks old.
Sarah is adamant that being with her family among people she knows in an all seater stadium poses no risk to the baby – believing driving an infant in a car on a motorway probably presents more risk.
Stewards at Everton however disagreed, not only saying she was putting the child at risk and insisting they move from the stand.
She said: "We arrived as a family and were looking forward to it – there were no problems at the turnstile.
"A steward approached us and said he thought my son was a safety hazard.
"I said I’d been watching Town for 20 years. I knew the supporters, I had my family with me and I’d never put my son in an unsafe position.
"He then got a female steward who was so patronising – the way she spoke to me was appalling. A gentleman in a suit then came and said he could evict me because my son did not have a ticket.
"We offered to buy one but he refused and I had to go and sit on the edge of the pitch or be evicted by the police.
"I was away from my family at a gap in the hoardings so more exposed to the ball and to sliding players.
"Everton said my son was a huge risk but all I’d ask is how come he wasn’t a risk at Stockport or Notts County?
"Huddersfield Town has been voted family club of the year and the ground is safe and accommodating.
