West Ham U21’s involved in mass brawl

There were ugly scenes at Villa Park tonight after a mass brawl broke out between twenty players during a Hammers Under 21 game against Aston Villa U21’s.  The Villa youngsters scored in 88th minute to make 3-2 on the night but just before the 90th minute a very nasty Villa tackle led to a confrontation of around 18 players until Villa captain Kevin Toner was shown the red card for Villa.

West Ham’s George Dobson led the retaliation against Toner for the two awful challenges.

U21: Spiegel, Pike, Henry, Oxford, Page (Neufville ’46), Dobson, Makasi, Diangana (Hector-Ingram ’59), Browne, Hendrie (Kemp ’83), Ford. Subs: Trott, Akinola.