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Liverpool Echo.co.uk - News - Liverpool Local News - Gun-toting mob brawl on touchline of Liverpool amateur league football match Gun-toting mob brawl on touchline of Liverpool amateur league football match Nov 24 2009 by Ben Schofield, Liverpool Echo Comments (8)Recommend (4) 12next A GUN-TOTING mob brawled on the touchline of an amateur league football match. The Catholic Men’s Society (CMS) league game in Speke was abandoned after just 15 minutes as violence erupted. One local woman said four gunshots were fired sending the terrified crowd fleeing – though police searches found no evidence of it. Another said more than a dozen thugs piled into the fight. The tie last Saturday was a CMS league match between Speke rivals Credit Union and Western Speke. The woman, who is close to one of the teams, said both had been eagerly looking forward to the tie. But she told the ECHO: “It’s nothing to do with football, it’s the crowd. One of the Credit Union players came with a gang and they were quite obvious. They’re just thugs these people. “One of the Western Speke players started arguing with them asking them to leave. They went to have a ‘straightener’ and someone came out with this gun. Four shots were fired and then people ran around. “This feud has been going on for two years and lives are in danger.” The witness said the gang pulled up in three Land Rovers, poured out of the vehicles and started beating their opponents with clubs and metal bars. When the match was abandoned Western Speke were 1-0 ahead. A match official said: “It was an aggressive brawl. I didn’t see how it started. There was quite a few more than a dozen involved. “It wasn’t people watching the match, they just used it as an excuse – two rival gangs from Speke. Anyone else not suprised by this? I've played a lot of sunday league over the last few years and the tension brewing in games is a weekly thing. I've been asked "do I like my kneecaps" during a game, and our right back was also threatened to be shot. Another game in our league was abandoned because lads ran on the pitch armed with hammers. These are only the incidents I know about. Theres a lot of angry men taking frustrations out in amateur football these days. I fucking hate some of the scum that play these days.