How i have made it home in one piece really is beyond me.
Escorted to the island and thats it off you go. Walking towards Digbeth not a copper in sight, blues charging and villa, the villa running at blues. Few minutes later police turn up in serious numbers (10 vans, probably 100 on foot, dogs the lot) Anyway they all start walking up through digbeth, me and my mate hung back and walked alongside some police and about 100yards infront of us you can see blues fans in numbers and villa fans running back towards us and a stupid copper says "what are you doing stood here get moving forwards" to which i replied something like "are you f'in mad, its easy for you to say that with all that kit on" he went on to say soon they would be letting the dogs loose and i'd get bitten. Me and my mate turned round got off the main road and walked to town.
Just heard off my mate who walked through digbeth. We smashed up a couple of pubs, outside one the was about 100 blues fans who got set upon and chased away. We smased them all over digbet high street.