LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – The Premier League fixture between Everton and Newcastle United was held up for eight minutes on Thursday after a protestor tied himself to the goal post at the Gwladys Street finish of Goodison Park.
The incident occurred simply after halftime, with the invader sporting a jersey with the phrases “Just Stop Oil”.
The group claiming duty for the protest on Twitter mentioned: “Our authorities is betraying us by funding new oil fields within the North Sea. New oil means destruction of our kids’s future.
“It means struggle on small island states. And it means struggling now for the poorest and most marginalised in all areas.”
Newcastle are owned by a consortium involving the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, and comes within the week that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has visited that nation.
It took quite a lot of stewards and safety workers to take away the intruder after he was reduce free from the post, and had to be carried out of the stadium as he refused to depart on his personal.
(Reporting by Nick Said; Editing by Christian Radnedge)
