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Banned football fan in passport legal wrangle

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A football fan banned from attending matches for three years has been told he will have to surrender his passport when requested to by authorities after an appeal failed.

Newcastle United fan James Blake, 42, got the ban in January for offensive comments he made about the 1958 Munich air disaster.

He lost an appeal but Newcastle Crown Court judge Tim Gittins removed the requirement for him to surrender his passport when requested to by police as he was planning to move to Spain.

But now Judge Gittins has said he did not have the authority to do that and Blake would have to comply with any demands made by the football banning authority.