A Bristol City fan caught on a match day with cocaine he planned to take over the course of a three-day binge has avoided jail.

Addict Stephen Uren, 43, paid for the drugs with money left to him in his uncle's will and planned to take it on a "bender" in Weston-super- Mare or Weymouth.

He was yesterday ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work at Bristol Crown Court after being told he had narrowly avoided being sent to prison.

He had admitted possession of cocaine with intent to supply at an earlier hearing on the basis the drugs would be shared out rather than distributed on a commercial basis.

Uren, of Seneca Street, St George, handed over a small resealable bag containing 0.14g of 31 per cent pure cocaine when police officers approached a group of City fans and asked if any of them were carrying illegal substances.

He was arrested at the Colosseum pub in Redcliffe Way on August 29 last year, the day City played Middlesbrough.

Police found another 18.5g on him at the police station, valued at £886 and 8 to 9 per cent pure.

After he produced his drugs to police, and they found drug paraphernalia at his home, he told them he was an unemployed carpet fitter who used cocaine.

Uren said he was left £1,500 in his uncle's will, and the drugs were for a three-day bender in Weston-super-Mare or Weymouth. He told officers he would never sell the drug.

Judge Julian Lambert, sentencing, gave Uren a three-year community order with a supervision requirement.