Banbury boss Langmead blasts 'unacceptable' and 'horrible' incidents after Bourne loss

Banbury United manager Kelvin Langmead has condemned the post-match scenes after the Puritans were beaten 1-0 at Bourne Town in the FA Trophy on Saturday.

Langmead spoke to Puritans LIVE after the match, and tried to outline exactly what happened.

The Banbury boss claimed that players' families had been hurt and found themselves in 'a horrible situation' that 'should never happen'.

And he also claimed left-back Finn Howell was struck by a Bourne supporter.

Howell reacted to that incident and was handed a post-match red card by the referee, but Langmead was quick to defend his players, and the Banbury contingent in the ground.

"I need to see things back, and we need to see things back as a football club," said Langmead.

"Things went on at the end of that game that are unacceptable.

"In the crowd, our players' parents and family were over that side, and there were supporters that were not of our own, that were throwing punches and there was a lot going on.

"One of our players has been hit, and again I will have to see that back, and the ref seems to have said it was the other way round and has sent him off for that at the end.

"We will have to check the footage and it is probably best just to leave that for now, and look back at it all with cooler heads and less emotion."

But he then added: "Finn has been punched in the face by one of their fans, that is the reality of it.

"As you can imagine, he wasn't too happy about it and reacted.

"They are saying it was the other way round, which I believe isn't the case, but we will have to have a look at that.

"From a football perspective we didn't do enough, but what happened at the end means emotions are high, and there is a lot of frustration and a lot of anger, because that stuff should never happen.

"We don't want to see any supporters finding themselves in that predicament. It wasn't nice, and it got out of control.

"But I saw enough to know that something needs to be done about that, it was totally unacceptable, and I hope they are caught.

"There are family members of the players that are hurt and found themselves in a really horrible situation."