'To say that you should be ashamed of yourself is to understate how you behaved...'
Football thugs brought ‘terror’ to the streets as rival fans clashed in ‘disgraceful’ scenes ahead of a Manchester United game. Fans of United and bitter rivals Leeds United clashed in Manchester city centre ahead of a crunch Premier League fixture.
“This was a disgraceful episode,” Judge Nicholas Dean KC told them during a sentencing hearing at Manchester Crown Court. “It is an episode that brings shame on you, and shame on the football club that you purport to support. The judge told them that they were ‘men of an age who mostly ought to have known a lot better’. He added: “To say that you should be ashamed of yourself is to understate how you behaved. You behaved with brutality, with what might in other circumstances be said to be animalistic behaviour. You behaved in a thuggish and primitive way.”
Prosecutors said that a ‘large number of males engaged in physical violence’ outside Cafe Nero on the corner of Lloyd Street and Deansgate. “Numerous items were thrown including chairs, traffic cones, signs, mugs, bottles and flares,” Mr Sherrington said. Shocking video footage showed the fracas unfold, with a bin being used as a weapon in one incident.
A shopkeeper on Lloyd Street shut for the day because he feared for his safety, while a barber on the same street could only deal with a limited number of clients because of the disorder.
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