Football fans bashed people with sticks and hurled missiles at bouncers in a vicious daylight fight outside a city centre pub in Manchester.
Hooded men threw sticks, stones and even a specials board at staff at the Crown and Anchor pub during the mass brawl early yesterday evening.
The violence unfolded outside the Northern Quarter venue immediately after Manchester City’s clash with Stoke, at around 5.10pm, the Manchester Evening News reports.
A group of approximately 12 men approached the pub in the shocking video filmed by an eyewitness at the scene.
They appeared to try to enter the pub trough a side window just before a man came out and seemed to throw something at the group before retreating inside.
The group then rushed up to the front entrance and tried and push their way into the pub.
But door staff were on hand and tried to contain the situation.
A man brandishing a large, thick stick then charged forward as another man grabbed a nearby menu board and attempted to throw it at a window and then at the door.
Football fans bashed people with sticks and hurled missiles at bouncers in a vicious daylight fight outside the Crown and Anchor pub in Manchester yesterday
They appeared to try to enter the pub trough a side window and a man then came out and seemed to throw something at the group before retreating inside
Hooded men then threw sticks, stones and even a specials board at staff at the Northern Quarter venue
A doorman was hit with a large stick and lashed out at his attacker himself.
An eyewitness told the M.E.N that he witnessed a ‘scrap’ moments before the incident.
He said: ‘Just as they walked up Port Street they started coming back.
‘They obviously wanted to get into the pub.
‘They were throwing stones and bits of wood.
‘Just a minute after they’d gone two police vans arrived.’
During a busy day for city centre officers, GMP received five 999 calls about disturbances relating to football on Saturday afternoon.
A spokesman for the force confirmed that officers were called to reports of a violent disorder at the Crown and Anchor pub, on Port Street, at 5.12pm.
‘It was reported to us that wooden poles were used to assault members of staff and damage was caused to the pub window,’ he said.
The violence unfolded outside the Northern Quarter venue immediately after Manchester City’s clash with Stoke, at around 5.10pm