( CNN ) -- A drunken English soccer supporter who attacked a former international goalkeeper during a match last Friday has been jailed for 16 weeks and given a six-year banning order . Aaron Cawley , a fan of English second division team Leeds , pleaded guilty to charges of assault and entering the field of play before being sentenced on Monday . The 21-year-old was arrested after invading the pitch during Leeds ' match at Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday and shoving Kirkland in the face , knocking the one-cap England international to the ground . Cawley escaped back into the crowd after the incident , which came in the 76th minute of the game , but was arrested on Sunday . `` We are pleased to see the matter dealt with by the courts so quickly , '' said a spokesman for Leeds , which plans to ban Cawley for life once his court order expires . `` Our one disappointment is that we feel the sentence could , and should , have been considerably longer . '' In March 2007 , Timothy Smith was fined Â£300 and given a three-year banning order after running onto the field and attempting to punch Frank Lampard during Chelsea 's FA Cup replay at Tottenham . Two years earlier , a Stoke fan was jailed for three months after attacking Queens Park Rangers goalkeeper Simon Royce . British media reported that the court in Sheffield was told Cawley had been drinking heavily before the match , and that he had previously breached other banning orders . His solicitor said her client `` was absolutely disgusted by his own behavior '' and that he could not recall the incident due to his state of inebriation . Kirkland , who has played for Premier League clubs Liverpool and Wigan and represented his country in 2006 , was left shaken by the attack . `` I caught a glimpse of someone coming towards me on the pitch , '' he told Wednesday 's website after the match . `` I thought he was going to give me some abuse but then suddenly he came at me with both hands and I was stunned . I felt the full force and I was just shocked because you never know what could have been in his hands . `` I thought of my family watching something like that and it was not a nice feeling to think my daughter saw me assaulted like that . '' Sheffield Wednesday manager Dave Jones said Leeds fans should be `` banned from every league ground . '' `` They are vile animals , '' Jones said after the match . `` The authorities have to look at it and sort it . '' Jones , who was found not guilty of charges of child abuse in 2000 , said he was taunted throughout the game by Leeds supporters . `` The abuse aimed at me on Friday was personal . It was also wrong , it was offensive and not the first time I have endured such abuse from Leeds United supporters , '' he said in a statement on Wednesday 's website on Monday . `` Why make it personal ? Why were the chants aimed at me ? I can not emphasize strongly enough that I condemn any abuse of any kind from any supporter and I would stress that the vast majority of fans at every club in the country are decent and law-abiding . '' The Kirkland incident came on the same day that Russian fans attacked Dynamo Moscow players using paintball guns at the club 's training ground . Having arrived in camouflage at the club 's training base in Novogorsk , just north of Moscow , they unleashed a flurry of paintballs at the players .
Football fan jailed for attacking Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Chris Kirkland . Aaron Cawley , 21 , also banned from matches for six years following assault . The incident happened in the second half of a game between the two sides at Hillsborough on April 15 1989. Leeds spokesman says the sentence was too lenient and club will ban him for life .