Shocking footage has emerged of football fans involved in running battles on a busy road ahead of a match on Easter Monday.
Dozens of people were filmed involved in the punch up, with fists being thrown while one man appears to be on all fours on the ground injured with children watching on.
Cars using the busy road can be seen reversing as drivers try to avoid the incident, which happened outside Ninian Park railway station ahead of a 3pm kick-off, according to Wales Online.
The brawl took place ahead of the Cardiff City match against Luton Town and the home team are said to be aware of the incident and a “significant” amount of footage has been passed onto the police.
Bluebirds podcast ‘A Bit of Swazz: A Cardiff City FC podcast’ tweeted: “Shoutout to the Luton bus that stopped outside Ninian Park station before the game. Piled off. Punch ups. Bloody heads. And one fella swinging his belt over his head. Thrilled to walk down the steps carrying my three-year-old daughter as it kicked off.”
A Cardiff City fan, who did not wish to be named, was walking to the game when the incident unfolded and said it was the worst incident he had seen in more than 30 years of attending Bluebirds matches. He said the bus pulled up at traffic lights before youngsters tried to get in front of the vehicle.
“One guy ran off the bus to shout at the Cardiff fans,” he explained. “Another guy did run off towards Cardiff fans, a Cardiff fan must have punched him, he was quite badly injured. A Cardiff fan had their head sliced open - I thought it was a bottle but it looked like it was a belt. There was blood everywhere.
“It was disgusting. This was unfolding about three metres away from us. More and more fans from Luton started piling off the bus. It just kicked off from there. You’re talking a good five minutes of chaos.”
The fan questioned why an opposition fans’ bus was taking such a route toward the ground, saying: “95% of the fans were in the stadium. Someone could have got killed - it was lucky there was only a few straggling fans left. I’ve been going for 30-odd years and I’ve seen little skirmishes but this was full on. It was as bad as I’ve ever seen.”
South Wales Police has been contacted for a comment.
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