Fans Fighting In the Stands on Sunday: At Rugby World Cup
Rugby World Cup fans hospitalised after 'brutal attack from England supporters' in France
Two Welsh rugby fans were hospitalised with non-life threatening injuries after the brawl. an alleged attack from English supporters at the Rugby World Cup over the weekend has left two Welsh fans in hospital. Marseille hosted both Wales and England's respective quarter-finals over the past weekend.
England waiting on key medical update as France officiating complaints continue: And it appears as though tempers flared with police called to the scene late on Sunday night. French media reported that a Welsh man was lying down on the ground with a head injury along with his son, who was aged in his 20s.
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The two Welshmen claimed they were attacked by England supporters and were soon taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A British man, who was found to be in possession of five grams of cocaine, was later arrested by local police.
But French police downplayed the situation as an "isolated incident" with the rest of the weekend's matches going largely untroubled. A French police source said: “It’s true that there was a fight but it should not be blown out of proportion.
A British man was arrested after the incident (Image: Getty) It involved four British people — two on each side — but it was an isolated incident and we should not lose sight of the fact that globally the weekend went well in Marseille.
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The incident came after all quarter-final matches had been played with England scraping through past Fiji on Sunday. They're now the only home nation left in the World Cup after Wales were knocked out on Saturday by Argentina.
Fans Fighting In the Stands on Sunday: England fans were also seen fighting in the stands of the Stade Velodrome during the match against Fiji. A handful of spectators in fancy dress costumes were filmed in a scrap with one man being tossed into the rows below him. the chaotic scenes led to gasps from those around them before the short clip ended. It's not clear whether the supporters fighting were English, Fijian or neutral spectators.