Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter Two young Manchester City hooligans with respectable jobs have escaped jail for taking part in a brawl with French rivals before a Champions League fixture.
George Sykes, 21, from Bury, who serves in the Royal Navy, and swimming pool engineer Adam Needham, 22, from Stockport, joined a group of City thugs who attacked supporters of the French club Lyon before the match at the Etihad stadium on September 19, 2018.
The pair were part of a group who threw shopping baskets and soft-drinks cans at rival fans who they cornered inside a convenience store close to the ground.
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