Manchester City demolished Club Brugge 5-1 in a UEFA Champions League tie in Bruges on Tuesday. (Picture: JOHN THYS / AFP
Five arrests have been made after a Manchester City fan was left in critical condition following a fight after a Champions League match with Belgian club Brugges.
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The City fan was a Belgian and was badly beaten at a motorway service station where rival fans first stole his club scarf.
Police said they had made five arrests after the fight that began inside the service station shop and continued outside on the forecourt.
“His life is in danger,” a police statement said. “The victim is a 63-year-old from Ninove.”
The victim’s son runs a Manchester City fan club ‘Blue Moon Belgium’, and the club’s star player is the Belgian midfielder Kevin de Bruyne.
“They left my father for dead after an act of mindless violence,” the son wrote on social media.
Brugges condemned the violence that followed City’s 5-1 win over the Belgian champions.
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