Man jailed for head-butting Sheffield United’s Billy Sharp at football match

Robert Biggs, 30, pleads guilty to assault of captain at playoff semi-final against Nottingham Forest

A man has been jailed for 24 weeks after pleading guilty at Nottingham magistrates court to assaulting the Sheffield United captain, Billy Sharp, at Tuesday's playoff semi-final at Nottingham Forest's City Ground.

Robert Biggs, 30, from Ilkeston, Derbyshire, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He was told that a charge of illegally entering the playing surface had been dropped.