August 25, 2009

MATCH OF THE DAY:

Violence erupts at West Ham v Millwall match (Chris Irvine, 25 Aug 2009, Daily Telegraph)

A man has been stabbed and at least two people have been arrested as "large-scale" crowd trouble broke out between fans outside a West Ham v Millwall football match. [...]

Reports suggested that some of the fans had been throwing missiles and bricks at one another and the violence between the two sets of fans was described as "serious" by BBC News.

Police called on reinforcements in order to help calm the violence, which has been going on for several hours.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 25, 2009 4:24 PM
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