Five Liverpool fans have been jailed for their part in a brawl at a Europa League match.
Followers of the Anfield club were seen fighting with their Manchester United counterparts at the end of last March’s quarter final tie between the two teams.
A banner was unfurled by travelling fans in the home section at Old Trafford which sparked the fracas with four United fans, who were also charged.
Liverpool fans Patrick Cowhig, Carl Irvine, Joe McDonald, Ian Mullin and Sonny Parr were all sentenced at Manchester’s Minshull Street Court for their part.
Cowhig and Irvine, aged 27 and 26 and both from Kirkby, handed 12-week jail terms and banned from football matches for eight and six years respectively.
Dovecot resident McDonald, 27, was sentenced to 10 weeks while Mullin, 21 and from Bootle, and Parr, 22 and from Everton, both received six weeks behind bars.
All three were banned from attending football games for six years.
The four United fans all admitted affray charges with their prison sentences ranging six months to 10 months while most received six year football bans.
Daniel Ginocchio, 22 and from Morecambe, was handed a 10-year suspension.