Absoloute joke that he's been prosecuted if you ask me,if the other guy has been big enough to have a "straightner"with him he should have been big enough to accept getting beat without going crying to the police
If this young man is going to be judged hung drawn and quartered for having a drunken punch up then 75% of young men are also guilty of being idiots in their time,he might have been foolish but it doesn't make the lad a bad person

Ermm Steven Gerrard was with a group of lads when he attacked a lone DJ

Ermm Joey Barton savagly attacked an innocent young lad and didnt stop when it was obvious the lad wasn't fighting back

These two lads arranged a straightener and were both WILLING participents. Theres a glaring difference between the situations. Whilst infortunate that the lad was seriously injured, he was quite willing to get involved in a scrap 1-on-1. Happened a thousand times when I was younger usually on a night out, take somebody outside, win or lose you never saw anybody running to the police.

...And Liam is one of the friendliest lads you can meet.

Just sounds like an argument that has totally gone OTT.

Andy isn't a bad lad and he comes from a good family, but he can't go around doing things like that.

Sounds like a fight that got out of hand. Its just sorting out a disagreement mano et mano if you ask me, if it were London he'd have called his friends and they would have stabbed one another or shot each other at their mothers houses.

what stinks is that the lad agreed to a fight but when he lost cried to the police. If you cant fight or dont want to get hurt dont agree to one