No football banning order - Reasons for not making a football banning order: It has taken some time for this application to be heard, and it is now more than 18 months since the offence. Mr Orr was a man of good character before the offence giving rise to this application. He has been a season-ticket holder for 5-6 years. He has worked as a fibre engineer for BT for 10 years. Mr Orr has recently become a father, and is about to get married.clear from the references that Mr Orr is well thought of. He is described as respectful, hard-working and caring. He helps out a friend behind the scenes with a grassroots football club.The onerous requirements would be disproportionately severe to the offence committed, set against the personal mitigation and case as a whole. Mr Orr has attended football matches for several years without incident, and the offence is very isolated in nature. I am also asked to take into account that there has been a significant delay in dealing with the application, and that NUFC has already put in place a ban from attending games for some months, with which Mr Orr complied fully.The possession of Class A drugs is illegal, and it goes without saying that they have no place in football. Whilst I do not have direct evidence before me of the impact of drug misuse on football-related violence and disorder, I can take judicial notice of all of those people whom I see every day in court whose unlawful behaviour has been a consequence of misusing drugs. It can only be of concern that people think it is appropriate to take illicit drugs into football grounds, including where their use may be described as recreational rather than arising from an addiction. Against this, I set Mr Orr’s lack of convictions and the fact that he has not been in trouble with the police before this, and the character references which confirm much of what has been said on his behalf today. Mr Orr appears to be a hard-working man, who has a young son and helps with a grassroots football team. I am told that this is an isolated incident from which he has learned a lesson. The offence was more than 18 months ago and he has already been banned from a number of games by his club. Those are the circumstances that persuade me that it would be unjust to make the order in this case..