{"id":800351,"date":"2026-10-12T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800351\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:54:09","slug":"police-officer-injured-as-10-arrests-made-at-tense-liverpool-v-manchester-city-match-football-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800351\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer injured as 10 arrests made at tense Liverpool v Manchester City match | Football violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

A police officer sustained a serious facial injury while making an arrest after the Liverpool v Manchester City match<\/a> at Anfield on Sunday, Merseyside police have said.<\/p>\n

The fixture was highly charged<\/a> as City played their first match since it was confirmed they had been found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules.<\/p>\n

Merseyside police said 10 arrests had been made, with one man arrested on suspicion of two offences of assaulting a constable, five on suspicion of tragedy chanting, one on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly and assault, two for affray and one on suspicion of throwing items on the pitch.<\/p>\n

The police said that during one of those arrests, at 6.35pm on Anfield Road, an officer sustained a serious facial injury. Police<\/a> said the officer had been taken to hospital and was recovering at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe officers and stewards are there to protect the public and keep them safe, and it is extremely disappointing that an officer has sustained a serious injury while carrying out that duty,\u201d Ch Insp Leanne Hobin said. \u201cInquiries into the full circumstances are ongoing so that anyone responsible for criminality can be brought to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the arrests for tragedy chanting, Hobin said: \u201cThe tragic loss of life should never be a subject for tribal point scoring. Football fans who chant about tragedies cause huge distress to the loved ones of people who died and their behaviour has absolutely no place in football. We will continue to work with clubs to take action to identify any perpetrators and bring them to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the \u201coverwhelming majority\u201d of spectators behaved well. City won the match 3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer sustained a serious facial injury while making an arrest after the Liverpool v Manchester City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}