Rangers and Frankfurt fans launch chairs and exchange punches as pre-match turns ugly
dailystar.co.ukbrawling football fans trade punches and throw chairs at each other as locals in Seville take refuge in a locked bar.The Spaniard filming the punch-up shouts to a friend not to risk it as he goes to venture outside to separate the two groups of men Riot police can be seen in the background chasing after Eintracht Frankfurt hooligans who moments earlier had been throwing glasses and other missiles at Rangers fans ahead of Wednesday's Europa League final in the southern Spanish city.The locals filming the extraordinary scenes could be overheard yelling out: “Give them a good beating, smack them, smack them” as the heavily-armed police tried to clear the German ultras from the area.The violence outside the bar where the Spaniards had locked themselves in appeared to come out of nowhere after German hooligans wearing balaclavas had walked by menacingly moments earlier.The man who was the first to be hit had been sat down with friends at one of the tables and appeared to have taken no part in the violence that led to riot police being mobilised and ended with the arrests of five Germans for public order offences.Another, thought to be a Rangers fan, although his nationality has not been officially confirmed, felt the full force of a right hook to his head in a surprise ambush before all hell broke loose and the brawlers began to use chairs as weapons.The Spaniards filming the violence provided a running commentary as if it were a boxing match, with one shouting: “Jesus, they’ve really hurt him” as they recorded the moment one of the chairs was hurled through the air by the man who received the first punch and hit its intended target full on.Who do you think will win the Europa League final?
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