Serial streaker strikes at the Centre Court

The guards threw a red blanket over him and handed him over to police.

A police spokesman said he was arrested for a breach of peace and would be questioned further at Wimbledon police station. “The man has done this at several major sporting events in the past,” the spokesman said. “He has been very cooperative and I cannot say at this stage whether he will be charged.” In may this year Roberts ran on to the pitch at Hampdenpark Stadium, Glasgow, during the champions league final.

Wearing nothing but a tartan ‘See you Jimmy’ hat, Roberts managed to dribble the ball from the halfway line and ‘score’ past Bayer Leverkusen’s stunned goalkeeper Hans-Jorg Butt.

He was fined 200 pounds ($300) for that stunt and is understood to have amassed around 2,000 pounds ($3000) in fines over the past eight years during which he claims to have streaked 150 times.

He has been banned from entering football grounds in England and Wales after running naked onto the pitch at last year’s FA Cup final and was banned from travelling to this summer’s World Cup finals.

Two years ago he ran on to court number 14 at Wimbledon while Russian beauty Anna Kournikova was playing a doubles match.

The 1996 Wimbledon men’s singles final was similiary interrupted when a woman dressed in an apron ran past Malivai Washington and Richard Krajicek on Centre Court.

Today’s incident was the second at this year’s Wimbledon with Manchester prankster Karl Power invading Centre Court in the first week when he and friend Tommy Dunn played a few shots dressed in tennis gear.

Power, who also lined up alongside players in a Manchester United team photo and invaded Headingley dressed in cricket whites during an Ashes clash, got away without being caught.