It's quite simple really. You traditionally set your RADAR altitude at a height beneath which collateral clutter would adversely affect the ability of the operator to distinguish between legitimate threats and harmless airborne traffic.
You obviously set your RADAR altitude to just below watertop, justifiably believing that rowing , canoeing and yachting is about as good as it gets at that height, lane swimming being just a lot of splashing and your mate Davies.
Association Football I am afraid comes just under pondlife, beneath the water boatmen and dragonfly nymphs, the freshwater shrimps and the cranefly larvae, beneath all this, cuddled up to the mat of decaying vegetation that in some way reminds the sport of the primordial ooze from which we all sprang.
It's no wonder you missed it.
But you haven't missed out I don't think.

Not a bad result for the lad , with time off for a guilty plea should be out for the Boxing day game

how does someone with a banning order get an away ticket from Elland Road, I thought they were restricted to members only. Has papa smurf changed the rules ?

Got a friend to buy it for him?

You do, but very few clubs actually check the membership card and the match ticket to see if the names match. It'd only be at clubs that are forced to (ie, Millwall) where he'd be likely to be noticed.

He was apparently arrested last time he breached his order with a match ticket for Coventry and his mate's membership card.

He claimed he was off to a shopping centre in Birmingham.... with a rail ticket for travel to Coventry. Which is either 2 or 5 stops before Birmingham depending on which train you're on.

He should have been imprisoned then for the worst cover story of all time.