A 16-YEAR-OLD boy and a 64-year-old man are Lancashire’s youngest and oldest football hooligans from the last three years, it has been revealed.

Police have released figures shaming 11 under-18s and over-50s to be given football banning orders, but have stopped short of naming them.

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Among those banned in the three years up to March are two teenage and four over-50 Burnley fans, one teenage Blackburn fan and one over-50 Blackburn Rovers fan. There are also Preston North End and Blackpool FC fans in those numbers.

The youngest fan to be banned is 16 and the oldest in 64.

Neither Blackburn Rovers nor Burnley FC was available to comment on the figures.

Across the country more than 100 under-18s including a boy of just 12 have been banned from football matches in the same period, latest figures show.

The official statistics, obtained by a Freedom of Information request, are revealed after dozens of England fans were arrested in the first week of the Euro 2016 tournament in France, including a 16-year-old held in Marseille.

Concerned police are visiting schools to warn pupils they could end up with a serious criminal record, or badly hurt, in organised violence.

Amanda Jacks, a case worker with the Football Supporters’ Federation, said young people should be steered away from trouble before banning orders and the criminal justice system were considered.

She said young fans behaving in a generally anti-social manner were targeted by the police, in a way that other gangs of youngsters were not.

Speaking about the “schooligan” phenomenon, she said: “There’s no doubt that there is a glamorisation of football disorder and kids are attracted to it for the wrong reason.

“There does need to be some consistency – if 14, 15, 16-year-olds are getting banning orders, that should be the last resort, not the first.”

A spokesman from Lancashire police said: “We hope that the use of Football Banning Orders sends a clear message to those who attend football matches that violence, disorder and anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated.”