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VIDEO: Sunderland and Bolton fans fight as police officers get involved

Sunderland and Bolton fans ended up having a fight after Saturday’s game as police officers get involved trying to prevent it from happening.

Footage has been posted onto social media shows it get rather heated between two sets of supporters outside the ground following the League One clash.

It’s also claimed that bricks and bottles were thrown at Sunderland fans while police lashed out at the travelling support as seen in the videos below.

 
 
 
 
 
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As striker Dion Charles scored twice to help Bolton record a third successive League One win by beating shambolic Sunderland 6-0, there was plenty of teasing and taunting in the stands.

And that mocking over the result left the Tyne and Wear outfit’s supporters riled up even further with some of the away fans making their way for the exits early.

Charles, who notched the match clincher at Shrewsbury last week, got on the scoresheet in each half.

Dapo Afolayan, Kieran Lee, Declan John and a Danny Batth own goal completed the Trotter’s biggest win of the season.

 

Twitter users reacted as Sunderland and Bolton fans fight while police officers get involved…

@japaninadishpan: Love we were all watching the entire thing unfold inside the ground; the first missile clearly came from the away end. Then starting fights with coppers outside and being surprised when they bite back? Take a defeat with pride and go home quietly

@Burton15Marcus: Zoe you can clearly hear they are telling you to get back and what you are doing is trying to start with them you were doing it all game and threw a flair at are keeper you are more to blame

@BwfcGoals: Tbf I saw a Sunderland fan throw a glass bottle at Bolton fans which nearly hit a young lad… your fans weren’t innocent either

@dazfellows: Football police being football police. Just like the boys in blue deal with protesters on the M25, eh.

@Connor_bwfc98: Acting the victims here or what?😂 you’s have no reason to try walk that way, towards the home fans. The away car park with all your coaches & also the train station, are behind you…. carry on

@El_Tibur0n: Can only hope those Bolton fans can somehow find the courage to go back after being confronted by such a terrifying mob

@MackemRon1951: @gmpolice policing at the Bolton -Sunderland game today was an absolute disgrace, sat back while Bolton fans bombarded us with bottles, coins, etc, when police Don riot helmets then you know there’s going to be bother

@KevinBe69383555: Back to skool on Monday haha

@Smogmonster1: loving how the other Sunderland fans are just looking at them embarrassing themselves. Get yourselves home kids and get your homework done for school tomorrow

@northernoutlaw: Dear me pathetic mackem cunts Hate them with a passion

@_liam_gordon1:  Av never been able to get me head round why people actually do this fkn pathetic standing about 20 mile away in a different stand giving it all that sticking a few fingers up and shouting a few swear words asif they’re gunna do summit about it hahahahahaha losers

Lee Johnson’s Black Cats, despite only one win in their four previous games, began the afternoon as joint leaders.

However their credentials as automatic promotion candidates will be called into question after the heavy defeat – their biggest loss in the third tier.

Bolton made an unlikely but successful promotion push in the second half of last season.

And while only 14th and still 14 points off the playoffs, on this performance Ian Evatt will be hoping it can rejuvenated his side in repeating that feat.

Head coach Lee Johnson insists he still believed he could oversee a promotion campaign with Sunderland this season but said his side had fallen ‘unbelievably short’ in all aspects of their performance.

“I think words are cheap,” Johnson said.

“I’ve got to start with an apology and it is a sincere one, because it’s the worst feeling I’ve had in football, in 20-odd years as a player and as a manager.

“I felt we’d prepared well but we played into their hands very early, and their gameplan was extremely well executed.

“We were off it right from the very first play, we were prancing, we looked posy and it played into their aggressive pressing game.

“Neither side got too much play going early on, and it was a tale of two goalkeepers kicking out of play which was frustrating.

“We have fallen unbelievably short just in every facet of the game.

“We did have a soft underbelly today.

“We have had some great away wins but today I can’t argue with that, it’s absolutely right. It looked like we had a soft underbelly, particularly the fifth and sixth goals.

“We will have to call out some truths. It’s a big shock to me this performance, I genuinely did not see it coming.”

Johnson reckons the players were ‘genuinely embarrassed’ in the dressing room afterwards, but states the latest defeat hasn’t changed his belief that they were capable of securing a return to the Championship.

“It was pretty numb [in the dressing room],” Johnson said.

“I think the players were genuinely embarassed. I went through a range of emotions, to be honest.

“I’m hurting on a personal level.

“I’ve got to show that I still believe in them because I do.

“I’ve seen what they can do when they’re at it and I know that we are improving our squad. I know it’s very difficult to double down on that after a performance like today but we are and we have.”

Johnson denied his players had ‘given up’ in the closing stages and said he would’ve to take responsibility for the way they were undone by Bolton.

“I don’t think we gave up,” he went on.

“I think everyone has had really poor games, we looked disjointed and disorganised in that 20 minutes.

“They were leaving our centre backs on the ball and we were playing straight into their hands, allowing them to nick it.

“I still believe in these players.

“I have to take responsibility today, it hurts, but I have to because part of my job is to get the boys tactically and mentally focused. I believed we had done, but we clearly hadn’t and that’s on me.

“I still believe [I can deliver promotion], I still believe we can go and get some important wins and bounce back very quickly.

“But I do need to consider [today], so that critcism is fair and justified. I’ll take it on the chin and try to come out a better manager.”

Over 5,000 fans made the journey to the North West, creating an outstanding atmosphere in the opening stages.

Johnson said his side had ‘failed to match it’, adding that his team had also let down the Academy of Light staff.

“We had an unbelievable following,” he said.

“They were right up for it, right from the start.

“Our players just didn’t match it, and it left it pretty sombre after that third goal went in and rightly so.

“All we can do is endeavour to provide what everybody wants so much, with his promotion.

“I feel sorry for our staff [as well], the people at the AoL work so hard because of their love of the football club.

“They don’t deserve it and the fans don’t deserve it.

“Moving forward we have got to be stronger, we have got to be mentally stronger and we have to do the basics better. We didn’t implement one part of our game that has been successful this year.

“It’s happened on two or three occasions, you can have one but we’ve had three or four and that’s difficult to take.”

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