FOURTEEN TV soccer fans were arrested after a full-scale fight outside a Burnley pub following England's Euro 96 defeat by Germany.

They were still in custody today charged with public order offences and drunk and disorderly behaviour. Others had received cautions.

The trouble started when a party of a dozen people, nine men and three women, had been in The Oxford pub, Temple Street, Burnley, drinking and watching the Wembley game.

Joyce Beesley, tenant at the pub since April, said the troublemakers were not regulars and she thought they were travellers.

She said after the match they broke a couple of glasses and she asked her partner John Slevin and friend Tracey Jones to get them to leave. Joyce said: "I knew there was going to be trouble because I have seen it before when we had a pub in St Helens.

"When they were asked to leave a fight started outside on the road and one tried to hit my friend. We got back inside and called the police out and then loads of people appeared from all directions and joined in the fight.

"Loads of police came in two vans with dogs and there was shouting and carrying on. It took five policemen to carry one man into the van."

Joyce, who watched the fighting from behind locked doors, said it was madness. After the fights outside her pub broke up a second one began outside Union Cabs on nearby Plumbe Street.

Police were also called at 11.30pm to the Derby Arms on Colne Road, Burnley, where six women were fighting in the street.

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