A FIGHT that broke out at a Wollaston pub just hours before England took to the pitch for the Euro 2020 final was "not football related" - landlady Lisa Sutherland has stressed today.

Dramatic video footage of the brawl outside The Britannia Sports Bar was shared on social media with many people blaming the combination of football and alcohol for the incident.

But licensee Lisa, who runs the pub with partner Wayne Etheridge, said the incident on the car park outside involved "two groups of people who had issues outside the venue" - and that it had nothing to do with the impending historic European Cup final which later saw England defeated by Italy in a penalty shoot out.

She described what happened outside the popular pub in the High Street as "awful" and said: "No one is more upset and embarrassed than us. The fight was over in moments and both groups removed."

She told the News one man, aged 21, suffered a cut to his eye and he was taken to hospital by a member of staff from the pub.

The emergency services were alerted to the incident which happened in the afternoon at around 3.30pm but medics were stood down after the injured man was conveyed to hospital privately.

A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We received multiple calls to Britannia Inn, High Street, Wollaston, to reports of an assault. An ambulance attended the location but we were informed the patient had left the scene."

Community-spirited Lisa, who made more than 1,000 wash bags for NHS staff as the pandemic took hold last spring, said it was "heartbreaking" seeing reaction to the incident on social media, although the football celebrations continued peacefully afterwards, and she said: "The fight has overshadowed the good we do. We work extremely hard for our community and sadly everyone has forgotten that because of one fight. We are ashamed and deeply saddened this happened but it was four minutes out of our whole tournament with seven games that ran fantastically."

She said yesterday was the first day of fundraising to raise money for a community defibrillator, to be sited outside the pub, and around £600 was raised towards a £2,000 target.

Lisa said: "We're right opposite a football field and after what happened to Christian Eriksen we felt we should have a defibrillator on site because of the difference they can make in the case of a cardiac arrest."

She said it was a "real shame" yesterday's disorder had overshadowed the fundraising achievement and, choking back tears, she said: "It makes me want to cry when I think about it."

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said officers were alerted to the incident and they arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and he was later released pending further investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police via live chat at www.west-midlands.police.uk (8am to midnight) or call 101 anytime, or Crimestoppers on anonymously on 0800 555111, and quote log number 2491 of July 11.