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'Battle of Bramall Lane II' sees six goals, four red cards and colossal brawl

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Sheffield United and Blackpool served up the Battle of Bramall Lane II on a crazy afternoon in the Championship.The two sides shares six goals, four red cards and a heated post-match brawl involving both sets of players and support staff in a match that had echoes of United's famous clash against West Brom from 2002.Unlike that encounter 20 years ago, this game survived the full 90 minutes - plus nine minutes of added time that contained a last minute equaliser and two red cards after the final whistle.READ MORE: WSL carnage as 'punch thrown' and three red cards in seven minutes of Villa vs West HamUnited goalkeeper Wes Foderingham clashed with Blackpool's Shayne Lavery after the referee had blown for full time, with a clip circulating online appearing to show Foderingham dragging the forward to the ground.What's the worst fight you've seen at a football game?

Let us know in the comments section below. That prompted a huge fracas involving both sets of player. After David Webb finally regained some sort of control, he showed red cards to both Foderingham and Lavery, bringing the total of sendings off in the game to four.Blackpool had earlier seen two players receive their matching orders in the space of three minutes as the game entered the last ten minutes.

Marvin Ekpiteta went for two bookings, before team-mate Dominic Thompson suffered the same fate a few minutes later.At that stage the visitors were 3-2 up, having fought back from 2-0 down.

Manchester City loanee James McAtee put the Blades in front after just eight minutes, tapping home from close range.Iliman Ndiaye then doubled United's lead midway through the first half in what was beginning to look like a routine victory for Paul Heckingbottom's high-flyers.

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