By Adam Everett & Susie Beever A knife-wielding thug attacked and threatened to stab a pensioner making his way home from watching a football match. Joshua Hoijord-Smith preyed upon innocent Thomas Hayes, before battering him in the street outside his home. Mr Hayes, 70, had been watching the England Brazil friendly at a pub in Birkenhead, Merseyside, on March 23 when he was targeted. Hoijord-Smith, who was with his girlfriend at the time, asked Mr Hayes where he was going, prosecutor Callum Ross told Liverpool crown court, but the victim didn’t answer. But approaching his street, he was confr…