New footage shows Birmingham and Cardiff fans fight each other at match

New footage online shows Birmingham and Cardiff City fans fight each other at last weekend’s match at St Andrew’s Stadium.

A minute long clip was uploaded to social media sites showing what took place, with children also at the scene of it all.

Birmingham and Cardiff played out a 2-2 draw, Troy Deeney getting the opener on the 29th minute, before Ivan Sunjic made it 2-0 to Birmingham on the 45th minute. Cardiff hit back through Kieffer Moore on the 66th minute, and Mark McGuinness grabbed a late equaliser on the 90th minute.

However, while majority of fans paid tribute to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, with the Blues faithful marching pre-match in memory of the kid, it’s a huge shame that thugs couldn’t put their ‘hooligan culture’ aside for one day.

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This is what is alleged to happen at the Championship fixture, according to fans on the Cardiff City Forum while others reacted to what they were hearing and seeing:

GrangeEndStar: 5 Brummies kicked a door in on our concourse knocking a steward out and were quickly ‘despatched’. I was then told that WMP pepper sprayed one of our fans for no apparent reason, this was on the ground level under the concourse. Kicking off between police and ccfc under stand loads of people involved, we were come out and they were just battering our fans obviously something happened before i was down there and then loads of them just came in with their batons. Apparently a few blues lads got into the concourse. Brummies had started it by kicking a door through on the concourse in to the Cardiff section.

nubbsy: Get into em, f*ck em up

bluesince62: Yeah, cos that’s just what we need!!

nubbsy: If they storm the concourse they asked for it!

Pencoed: WMP never needed an excuse

bluebirdoct1962: Maybe I’m being naive but I’m imagining that our support were superb at 6 minutes so very odd.

Canton104: Heard the commotion whilst having a half time pint. No idea where the strong smell of burning came from between the two supporters after the fisticuffs. Thought a flare had lit the segregation covers at first. WMP were complete tools as usual.

skiprat: Spot on Brum always been scumbags hope city battered them

valleyrambill: They did the same with Blackpool supporters it was the midland police again they are the thugs not away fans

1980s Bluebird: I was stood by the door, yes it was kicked open but no steward was knocked out and all that happened was the normal jumping up and down with a phone in hand throwing beer at each other. Coppers turned up (3 of them) and forced door closed, that was it, Smoke bomb set off that was smell. All in all a waste of beer

Blues1875: Birmingham fan kicks the door. Cardiff fan opens it, and Two Cardiff come through, get kicked back through the door by about 7 Birmingham fans, lots of subsequent shouting and beer throwing, door gets shut, the end.

Forever Blue: Shows a cowardly attack on a few Cardiff fans by BRUM who then throw everything , but don’t go through the door and eventually W.Midlands police close it

bluebirdoct1962: Not condoning any violence but I’m surprised that a few more City fans didn’t pile out of the door to help one two had been dragged out to be given a kicking by a dozen of do of them. Zulu army? Yeh right.

MATCH REPORT

Steve Morison’s side came from behind to gain a result once again this season with McGuinness rising to head in from a corner in stoppage time and surprise the home fans among a crowd of 17,840.

Birmingham had built up a two-goal buffer by the break, with Troy Deeney’s second goal in as many games putting Lee Bowyer’s side in front after 29 minutes.

Ivan Sunjic ended a 17-month goal drought to double the hosts’ lead in the opening minute of first-half stoppage-time, it looked like the points would be staying in Birmingham.

However Moore scored to go top of Cardiff’s goalscoring charts, reducing the deficit in the 66th minute and missed a good chance to level, before McGuinness’s late intervention restored parity and a deserved draw for the away side.

Birmingham’s Lee Bowyer: “We switched off at the end and got done. We know that’s their strength, they’re a big side. A lot of their goals this season have been scored from set-pieces. We worked hard on it and just got done at the end. Did they [Cardiff] deserve a point at the end? I don’t think so. But you have to give them credit, they kept pushing and pushing and didn’t give up. We should have finished the game way before that. We missed too many chances again.

“We had two better chances from headers from set-pieces ourselves. The difference was they took them, and we didn’t. Our work ethic was really good, we showed passion. Both goals were really good. I thought Troy took his goal really well, nice and composed, and same with Ivan.”

Cardiff’s Steve Morison: “You come off at Stoke when you’re 3-0 down and you’re back to 3-3, and today we’re 2-0 down and come back to 2-2 with a goal in the last minute, and there weren’t happy faces in the dressing room because we know that can’t be the norm. We can’t keep giving ourselves a mountain to climb, but you can’t fault the heart, the character, the attitude, the application. We could have rolled over and let it go.

“We haven’t and 1,700 Cardiff fans have gone home slightly happier than they were half an hour ago. And that could end up being a really good point in the scheme of things. It’s a point rather than none and adds a bit of positivity as we leave, but we need to be better. We’ll keep driving it at the training ground and in the games, but at some point we need to take a little bit of responsibility for what’s happening on the pitch. It can’t always come from us to do that, but there is enough experience in there that’ll make that happen.”