For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter A group of Bolton Wanderers supporters have been banned from attending football matches following a brawl with opposition fans.
Lewis Proudfoot, 28, Kieran Briscoe, 36, James Malik, 22, and Callum Naylor, 20, were part of a group of thugs who fought with Shrewsbury Town fans ahead of a fixture between the two teams.
During the scrap in Bolton town centre, which involved up to 50 people, a man was repeatedly kicked in the head while punches were exchanged between both groups of fans.
Sentencing the four men at Bolton Crown Court, a judge slammed their 'thuggish behaviour' and told them they had avoided being sent to prison 'by their skin of their
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