WARRING football fans turned a Huddersfield road into a battlezone.
In a shocking outburst of violence at 7pm last night, up to 100 Town and Millwall fans used bricks, sticks and bottles in front of shocked onlookers.
One man has been admitted to hospital amid reports that walking wounded fled the scene as police arrived.
At the time of going to press no arrests had yet been made.
Onlooker Paul Stevens said: “It all kicked off at the Waterloo pub.
“There was a large group of Town fans outside and a coach carrying Milwall supporters pulled up at the traffic lights.
“The Town fans began throwing bottles and stones.
“Millwall fans then rushed off the coach and started fighting with them in the middle of the road.
“Then, three more minibuses of their fans pulled up and they all piled in.
“It was terrifying. People were throwing bottles and stones and bricks, anything they could get.
“There must have been around 100 people involved. At the start there were only three or four police and they did a brilliant job. We rang it in and told them the police really needed help.
“In two or three minutes there were about 40 more police and a lot of the fans ran off in the Sunnymead direction.”
Workers at the Waterloo pub were last night cleaning the pavement of glass outside, but said there was not significant damage inside.
Police were tidying the scene of missiles, and debris was being cleared from the road.
One local shopkeeper said: “The first I saw was a group of people running past my window.
“Then we heard someone shout ‘There’s a fight’ and we went outside – it was a massive brawl at the traffic lights.
“One guy was knocked out cold on the floor. Another was bleeding from his face.”
One drinker aged 18 who was in the pub as the fight started said: “It was scary, I could see one of the Millwall fans had a smashed bottle and was screaming ‘Come on then’ to the Town fans.
“The police who were there at the start did their best to stop it but there were just too many of them to deal with.
“The Town fans started throwing bottles, but pretty soon both sets of fans were throwing anything they could get their hands on. They were going through bins just to find weapons.”
A spokeswoman for West Yorkshire Police said: “We were called to a disturbance at a pub on Waterloo Road shortly before 7pm.
“One man was taken to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary with minor injuries as a result of the incident.
“Inquiries are ongoing and there have been no arrests as yet.”
