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Football fans jailed and banned for bar brawl

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Five football fans have been jailed for "disgraceful" disorder in a supporters' club during a Lancashire derby.

A fight broke out after four Burnley fans entered the Armfield Club in Blackpool before kick off between the two teams in the EFL Championship on 4 March 2023, Lancashire Police said.

Punches were thrown and glasses and furniture were hurled inside the bar.

Lancaster Magistrates Court heard two of the men, who were all Blackpool fans, had thrown items off the outside balcony towards the Burnley fans.

Dale Ryan, 38, Ryan Lowe, 38, Craig Elliott, 42, Ian Greenwood, 52, and Christopher Banks, 38, all from Blackpool, were involved in the disorder.