WORLD

Qatar World Cup 2022: England and Wales fans in mass brawl video in Tenerife

This is the shocking moment England and Wales fans kicked off early as they started brawling outside bars in Tenerife.

Punches were thrown and chairs brandished during the clash in Playa de las Américas in the south of the Spanish resort in the Canary Islands.

Footage shows both sets of fans fighting outside the CC Veronicas shopping centre before the two sides clash at the Qatar World Cup on Wednesday, The Sun reports.

Dozens of people – some wearing the white of the Three Lions and others wearing the red shirts and bucket hats of Wales – appear to be involved in the rumble.

The shock video starts with a group of men throwing punches on a zebra crossing near the bars, one of them brandishing a chair above his head.

Fists fly and one man in black is knocked to the ground before he is then walloped with a chair by a shirtless bloke.

But he then gets up and floors another man wearing an England shirt in the middle of the road.

A man carrying a Wales bucket hat also crashes a chair over a man wearing an England shirt, only to be charged by a man in grey.

And then the Three Lions support hurls the chair back at the group of men on the other side of the road.

The camera then pans around and films and even larger group of people outside the bars Revolution and Jumping Jacks.

Groups of fans brawl with each other, with some of them being knocked to the ground in a flurry of kicks and punches.

All the while the pounding bass of the music continues in the background.

Some men can be seen attempting to break up the fight and hold their pals back to try and calm down the situation.

One man in a Wales shirt and bucket hat.

Spanish daily El Dia reports several people were injured in the brawl outside the bars.

The newspaper reports the fight is understood to have taken place in the early hours of Friday.

So the brawl was before Wales were stunned 2-0 by Iran and England endured a drab 0-0 to the US.

Spanish police are investigating the fight.

The fight came as yesterday’s results set up a key clash between the Three Lions and Gareth Bale’s men on Tuesday.

England have all but secured progression to the round of 16 with a win and a draw.

And meanwhile, Wales need to win well to keep their World Cup dreams alive.

For the Three Lions to be knocked out, Wales would have to beat them 4-0 and Iran would have to beat the US.

— This story originally appeared on thesun.co.uk and has been republished with permission

Source link

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Back to top button

Adblock Detected

Please turn off the ad blocker & refresh this page again to access the content.