Overview
- British Airways offered Stephen Crean two Club Europe seats to Porto on January 22 for Nottingham Forest’s match against Sporting Braga, plus two nights at the five-star PortoBay Flores via British Airways Holidays.
- Nottingham Forest arranged match tickets for Crean, who said he was grateful for the offer and eager to travel once recovered.
- Ryanair declined to refund Crean’s missed flight to Austria, citing its non-refundable fares policy and advising passengers to use travel insurance, drawing criticism from friends and fans who called for boycotts.
- Crean, 61, confronted the knife attacker on a Cambridgeshire train on November 1, suffered multiple stab wounds, and escaped by locking himself in a toilet before reaching Huntingdon station.
- British Transport Police said 10 patients were taken by ambulance to Addenbrooke’s Hospital and one self-presented; Anthony Williams, 32, has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, as Crean continues his recovery and received applause at a recent home match.