A DRUNKEN Liverpool fan beat up a Manchester United supporter in a pub and then turned on the licencee after his team got beaten, a court was told.

Burnley magistrates heard Mark Patrick Holden, 18, had been watching soccer and was drunk by the second half.

Holden, of Cravendale Avenue, Nelson, admitted two counts of assault by beating on March 8.

He was given a 12-month community order and 40 hours community punishment.

Julie Reddish, prosecuting, told the court victim David Drinkwater was in the Prince of Wales pub, Leeds Road, Nelson, and was approached by the defendant who asked him who he supported.

The victim told him Manchester United and remembered nothing after.

Holden punched him and the next thing he recalled was getting up off the floor and seeing the man who had hit him being restrained by licencee Stephen Twist.

Miss Reddish said Holden then struck Mr Twist and he was left with a cut eyebrow and nose injury.

Holden later told police he had been in the Bull pub in Nelson, watching football and was drunk by the second half after drinking lager, and Jack Daniels and coke.

He said he was annoyed Liverpool had lost. Holden told officers he couldn't remember leaving the pub, or being in the Prince of Wales his mother's local.

He did not recollect being in any fracas.

Richard Taylor, defending, said Holden had no previous convictions for assault.

He was not someone who got in trouble regularly, and was embarrassed about what had happened to him.