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This is the shocking moment dozens of rival football fans were caught on CCTV brawling outside a pub in front of terrified customers.
The vicious fight started after a stand-off between Nottingham Forest and Notts County fans.
Shocking CCTV shows a group of around ten men throwing punches and surging towards the pub entrance.
A couple sat on a table outside the pub can be seen calmly gathering their shopping bags as the brawl carries on just inches away from them.
At one point during the footage, one thug can be seen kicking another man as he lies on the ground.
The brawl then appears to calm down but starts for a second time when another yob throws an advertising board at the pub window.
The fighting eventually ends when the fans outside the pub walk away with one of them stopping and holding his arms outstretched in the street.
Nottingham Crown Court heard the organised brawl took place outside the Major Oak pub in Nottingham on March 19 last year.
It started after a group of Notts County fans gathered outside with the Nottingham Forest supporters standing near barriers at the beer garden.
Ten men are due to be sentenced for their roles in the brawl after pleading guilty to affray and using threatening behaviour on Wednesday.
Prosecutor Philip Gibbs told the court the CCTV showed there was 'immediate verbal hostility'.
He added: 'The Nottingham Forest group started the violence.'
The court heard Notts County fan Dallen Dakin, who was nearest the rival supporters, was punched full in his face by Jake Bramley on the Nottingham Forest side.
Mr Gibbs said glasses were thrown as missiles and chairs were brandished during the brawl with between 200 to 250 terrified customers in the pub.
He added: 'Innocent customers were trying to get out of the way.
'There was a scene of panic.
'The beer garden was trashed.
'Ten chairs were knocked over or dropped by participants.'
The court heard another Notts County fan Michele Saragnese was trapped outside and attacked 'quite ferociously' by Nottingham Forest group.
Mr Gibbs said Bramley put his knee in Saragnese's face, took hold of him, threw him to the ground and delivered a punch to his head.
Another Forest fan Ross Dawson threw 12 punches at Saragnese's head.
Forest fan Adam Claxton also gesticulated and 'exchanged verbal hostility' with the Notts County side before throwing several punches in a side-arm motion.
The court head Reece Kelly gesticulated towards the Notts County group and threw repeated punches at them and pushed his way to the entrance of the pub.
Reece Warner made hand gestures towards the County fans and threw a punch at someone inside the doorway.
The court heard Notts County fan Ryan Wales went inside the pub and was 'rallying the troops'.
Mr Gibbs added: 'Wales was amongst the County group greeting the Nottingham Forest group as they arrived.'
'Dakin was heavily involved with Wales in the organisation of the fight.'
Notts County fan Michele Saragnese, 23, of Beeston, Notts., pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour.
Other County supporters Ryan Wales, 21, of Aspley, Nottingham, and Dallen Dakin, 20, of Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, admitted affray.
Nottingham Forest fans Jake Bramley, 28, of Sherwood, Nottingham, Adam Claxton, 27, of Derby, Reece Kelly, 23, of Clifton, Nottingham, Reece Warner, 24, of Chilwell, Nottingham, Dylan Connor, 23, of South Normanton, Derbyshire, Ross Dawson, 21, of Strelley, Nottinghamshire, and Harry Nicholson, 21, of Arnold, Nottingham also admitted affray.