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| Man guilty of assaulting Sir Alex | Man guilty of assaulting Sir Alex |
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| A man has pleaded guilty to assaulting Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson at a London railway station. | A man has pleaded guilty to assaulting Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson at a London railway station. |
| Kevin Reynolds, 43, admitted punching Sir Alex in the groin before head butting a police community support officer at Euston station on Monday. | Kevin Reynolds, 43, admitted punching Sir Alex in the groin before head butting a police community support officer at Euston station on Monday. |
| Reynolds was warned by City of Westminster magistrates that he faces a jail sentence when he appears at Southwark Crown Court at a later date. | |
| Sir Alex, who was born in Glasgow, is not believed to have been badly hurt. | Sir Alex, who was born in Glasgow, is not believed to have been badly hurt. |
| 'Fighting drunk' | |
| He had been in London for a function. | He had been in London for a function. |
| Reynolds, of no fixed abode, was charged with actual bodily harm, assault and two public order offences. | |
| His counsel, Adeola Olowu, said her client initially thought he had come across a Sir Alex look-alike. | |
| She said her client was joking around and that he struck Sir Alex while shadow boxing. | |
| Magistrate Daphne Wickham said: "I do not think Sir Alex Ferguson saw this as a joke." | |
| She said Reynolds was "a fighting drunk", adding that her powers of sentence, which allow for six months' imprisonment, were insufficient. | |
| Reynolds was remanded in custody. |