Mass Brawl at Football Match

[Flaiming Moe]

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Fists and chairs fly as football league match descends into a violent mass brawl

Last updated at 14:23pm on 14th February 2008

Police have launched a probe into how a football match descended into a mass brawl which saw fists flying and chairs used as missiles.


FA chiefs are also looking into the violence that flared at the amateur game.
Onlookers said trouble flared just five minutes into the Manchester League clash between Heywood St James and Salford Victoria when a verbal altercation ended with one player being sent off. Scroll down for more...

Trouble on the pitch: A blow appears to hit its mark during the match before police are called

Melee: Punches are thrown as players from Heywood St James and Salford Victoria tangle


He left the field at Heywood's Phoenix Park home, but then returned.
Opposing players and fans then poured onto the pitch and began punching each other and hurling chairs in a mass brawl.
The team's trainer, Lee Young, was hit by a chair and was later taken to Manchester's Fairfield Hospital suffering from a broken finger and a damaged nose.
Another chair was thrown through a dressing room window and Heywood St James now faces a large repair bill. Scroll down for more...

Calm down: Referee David Shipp tries to defuse the violence before abandoning the game


Referee David Shipp abandoned the game and police had to be called. Uniformed officers escorted him from the field.
No arrests have been made but police say they are looking into allegations of affray, criminal damage and assault.
Heywood St James chairman Danny Dyson said: "There was a bit of an off-the ball scuffle and the next minute all hell broke out. I have never seen anything as disgusting in all my years of football."
Opposing team chairman Chris Carney said he was waiting to hear from the FA.
He added: "I'm very upset with the situation."

Anger: A player brandishes a lump of wood. No arrests were made

 

[BlueJ]

Sounds more like the aftermath of a Barking Vs. Chingford rugby game!

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Love the last pic. Where did that player manage to find a lump of wood in the middle of a public park? :p

 

[Flaiming Moe]

Love the last pic. Where did that player manage to find a lump of wood in the middle of a public park? :p

Also love the fact that they are wearing the Barcelona kit.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Love the last pic. Where did that player manage to find a lump of wood in the middle of a public park? :p

And the obvious 2 whoos’s that don’t want to get involved as a rival player is obviously about to clobber there mates

 

[Reg Martin]

At first glance it looks like the number 8 is holding someone's torn-off leg in his hand - now that would have been a proper brawl!

 

[Blueshrimper]

Wouldn't stand a chance if Macca was there.

 

[The General]

****ing dirty Mancs!!

The team in the orange remind me of Allscums!!

 

[sufc_tom]

He's even got a block of wood it looks like :thump:

 

[Gremlin]

He's even got a block of wood it looks like :thump:

You didn't read the whole thread did you? Anyway, stop looking at his shorts.