Two Italian football hooligans have been jailed for launching a brutal assault on Tottenham Hotspur supporters, including one who suffered a near-fatal stabbing.
The English fans were drinking peacefully at a pub in the centre of Rome last November before a Europa League match against Lazio when thugs launched what police described in court as a well-planned "urban guerrilla warfare" operation using smoke bombs and tear gas to help "neutralise" their victims.
The Italian gang tore through the Drunken Ship pub in the Campo de Fiori piazza, smashing windows and attacking fans with knives, iron bars and even ripped-off chair legs, the court heard.
Thirteen people were injured, including Ashley Mills, from Brentwood, Essex, who suffered massive blood loss when one hooligan plunged a knife into his thigh.
He was taken to hospital where doctors fought to rebuild his femoral artery.
The raid caused an estimated 18,000 euros (£15,400) damage to the pub Mr Mills described at the time how the mob "came out of nowhere".
"I was standing outside the bar drinking, and the next thing I know there are loads of them. It happened very quickly, I don't remember much. I remember being pulled out, along the ground, after I had been stabbed," he said.
Mr Mills, who grew up in Tottenham, north London, had travelled to the game with his brother Bradley Mills, a 30-year-old interior designer, who was in the bar and was also injured.
On Monday, a Rome judge sentenced Francesco Ianari, 27, to four years and five months in prison, and Mauro Pinnelli, 26, to five years and six months in jail, for assaulting 12 of the 13 people injured.
Both fans of Rome side AS Roma, they formed part of a larger group of 20 who took part in the raid.
Ianari, a door-to-door salesman who has previously been banned from attending football matches, and Pinnelli, a builder, were arrested on the night of the attack after they were spotted behaving suspiciously near the pub.
People peer inside the venue the morning after the attack last November Hardcore "Ultra" fans of another Rome team, Lazio, were initially accused of organising the raid.
Some Lazio fans were accused of singing anti-Semitic chants at the match against Spurs the night after the attack, boosting suspicions the attack was linked to the London team's Jewish heritage.
But the court heard that Roma fans first spotted the Spurs fans drinking at the pub and then called on Lazio fans they knew to join them, suggesting thugs from the two traditional rivals have forged a violent alliance.
Damage to the pub was estimated at 18,000 euros (£15,400).
In February, police said they had identified nine others suspected of taking part in the violence, and took three men into custody, including two Lazio fans.
They have since been release and have been banned from attending Lazio matches.
Police used CCTV footage to build their case as well as bringing in anti-terrorism police who used mobile phone records to identify the assailants and track their movements on the night.
Officers concluded that the gang first put the bar under surveillance then gathered in nearby Piazza Navona to plan the raid.
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