Shocking brawl between rival football fans after Bolton v Wigan game

Shocking moment woman is punched in brawl between rival football fans after Bolton v Wigan game – as police make 11 arrests

• Brawl took place outside a pub in Wigan town centre in Greater Manchester 
• Bolton Wanderers fans had watched their team draw against Wigan Athletic
• Row broke out on Saturday evening at 7.30pm, five hours after match ended 
• Greater Manchester Police sent five vehicles to scene and arrested 11 people 

This is the shocking moment a woman was punched in a fight between rival football fans outside a pub following a local derby amid violence that resulted in 11 arrests.

The brawl took place outside a pub in Wigan town centre in Greater Manchester after Bolton Wanderers fans had watched their team draw against Wigan Athletic.

Bolton supporters were in the town centre following the League One match earlier that day at Wigan’s DW Stadium, which is located just ten miles away from Bolton.

And the row broke out near The Anvil pub in Wigan on Saturday evening at about 7.30pm, some five hours after the game – which kicked off at 12.30pm – ended 1-1.

The video footage shows one man lying on his back on the ground before two others appear to close in on him, when a woman runs in and attacks one of them.

A woman was punched during the brawl in Wigan town centre on Saturday evening

The fight took place five hours after Bolton’s match with Wigan had ended in a 1-1 draw

Police responded to the brawl in Wigan town centre on Saturday evening and made 11 arrests

The brawl took place outside a pub in Wigan town centre in Greater Manchester on Saturday

The fight happened after Bolton fans had watched their team draw against Wigan Athletic

The man then gets up to his feet before another man jumps in to attack from behind. He then stumbles away, before the woman again rushes in to try to protect him.

The attacker then tries to attack the woman too, before she hits out at the assailant twice and is then dragged away while a man shouts: ‘Who the f*** are you?’

Greater Manchester Police responded to the scene with five vehicles and arrested 11 people. The footage was posted on social media before being published by The Sun.

A police spokesman said: ‘Officers were deployed as part of the proactive operation surrounding the Wigan versus Bolton game. The operation resulted in 11 arrests.’

Bolton supporters were in Wigan town centre following the League One match earlier that day

The row broke out near The Anvil pub in Wigan on Saturday evening at about 7.30pm

This is the shocking moment the fight took place between rival football fans in Bolton

Wigan Athletic’s James McClean scores in the match against Bolton Wanderers on Saturday

There was a major policing presence at the DW Stadium (pictured before Saturday’s match)

Bolton equalised in the 83rd minute of the match through Jon Dadi Bodvarsson after James McClean had opened the scoring for Wigan in the seventh minute.

The draw left Wigan in the league’s second automatic promotion spot, one point ahead of MK Dons in third. Bolton are in 11th position, 11 points off the play-offs. 

The two sides are local rivals, and ahead of the derby match Bolton boss Ian Evatt told Wigan fans to ‘concentrate on their own club like we concentrate on ours’.

He also admitted that ‘some of the things I say are provocative’ but added: ‘Some of the things I say are for the benefit of my fans, my club and my players.’

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