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The key player for Aston Villa was attacked in Lille by a hooded group prior to tonight’s Europa League match between the two teams.
According to Le Parisien, an altercation occurred on Wednesday night close to Lille’s Old Town bars. The Aston Villa super was attacked while assisting an inebriated person on the street.
According to their information a group of five hooded individuals attacked the group of Aston Villa fans wearing ‘padded gloves’.
Nobody was injured as police were on the scene and intervened before the attackers fled, before two were later caught and arrested. While the group were attended to by emergency services, the Aston Villa supporters elected against filing a complaint.
The ‘brawl’ as Le Parisien describe it appears to have been nothing more than a scuffle and certainly not instigated by the English group on this occasion.
That makes for a pleasant change from proceedings, with European weeks usually filled with various reports from around Europe essentially labelling all English fans as hooligans regardless of what they’re actually doing.
