SEVEN football fans yesterday admitted being part of fights and disorder ahead of a league game.

Two Oxford United and five Bristol Rovers fans were caught up in trouble around the Kassam Stadium on February 9.

Oxford magistrates were told of a fight at the nearby Priory pub and further disorder around the Bowlplex bowling complex.

They were shown CCTV footage from the pub and video shot by Avon and Somerset Police outside the stadium.

Cleighton Tutty, 37, made hand gestures to Rovers fans in the pub garden “as if to start a fight” said prosecutor Clare Barclay.

The Steep Rise, Headington resident then pushed a Rovers fan in the chest with both hands and the two groups fought, she said.

Simon Graham-Harrison, defending, said “remorseful” Tutty lost his temper after a Rovers fan spat at him.

Christopher Williams, of Spruce Gardens, Greater Leys, punched a Rovers fan in the pub car park and “struck a police horse” Mrs Barclay said.

A drink was thrown over Williams – hit with a 2004 football banning order – but this did not excuse his behaviour, the defence said. Mr Graham-Harrison said the “remorseful and ashamed” 38-year-old pushed the horse away as it was coming towards him.

Ex-Rovers steward and father-of-five Andrew Young, 52, of Meadow View, Bristol admitted putting up his fists in a “fighting stance”.

Kenny Reed, 21, of Bruemar Avenue, Bristol admitted making v-signs, shouting and swearing.

Joe Lally, 31, of Kellaway Avenue, Bristol admitted throwing a plastic cup over the police line and adopting a fighting stance.

Grandfather Leslie Underdown, 46, of Blaisdon Yate, Bristol punched a man at the Bowlplex who earlier had a “go at him” said Mrs Barclay.

John Lally, 26, of Hopkins Close, Bristol, also acted in an “aggressive manner” and took off his belt and struck the ground in front of police at the Bowlplex.

Jane Wilkinson, defending, said of the video: “You see him being incredibly aggressive, taking off his belt, for slightly bizarre reasons, and hitting it on the ground.” Young got a two-month curfew and a three-year banning order; Reed a 12-month conditional discharge; Joe Lally a ban and £500 fine; Underdown and John Lally got three-month overnight curfews.

Joe Lally and Reed admitted using words or behaviour to cause alarm fear or distress.

Underdown, Young, the Lally brothers, Williams and Tutty admitted behaviour to cause fear of unlawful violence.

Giving Tutty a three-month curfew and a three-year football banning order, district judge Tim Pattinson told him: “The court cannot tolerate any sort of football disruption or violence.”

Williams got a four-month curfew and four-year ban.

All of the curfews are from Thursday to Sunday with varying times. He told the Bristol fans their actions “must have spoiled the occasion for a large number of people”.

Steve Kuenan, 45, of Bancroft Close, Swindon, denied using behaviour to cause fear of unlawful violence and will face a trial on October 18.

Martin Hill, 45, of Hotwell Road, Bristol, John Henehan, 42 of Arnos Vale, Bristol, and John Daly, 42, of Patchway, Bristol, denied using words or behaviour to cause alarm fear or distress.

They face trial on October 24.