WATCH: Three thugs jailed for 'brutal' attack outside Walsall nightclub
Thugs who chased down two men in a 'brutal attack' during the early hours outside a Walsall nightclub have been jailed.
CCTV showed Sunday League footballer Fidell Glanville 'pole-axe' one of the men, knocking him unconscious after an argument that started outside Vogue nightclub on Bradford Street at 3.30am on November 15, 2015.
Glanville started the fight, and his friend Darren Abrahams joined in following the confrontation, which took place on a side street near Club X nightclub, also on Bradford Street, the court heard.
Ryan Norton, who knew both men, also stamped and kicked one of the victims.
Glanville said he went after one of the men after one of them made a comment to him while queuing up to get into Vogue.
The CCTV footage showed a crowd gathering as Glanville, 28, of Wiltshire Way in West Bromwich, and others strike a man lying on the floor. Glanville then strikes the victim's friend, sending him sprawling back onto the floor.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard on Monday that Abrahams, 37, of Crankhall Lane, Wednesbury, already had 100 previous convictions and was due to leave prison after serving half of a ten-month sentence for dangerous driving on Tuesday.
He will now stay inside after he was given a new 26-month jail term.
Norton, 25, of Dorset Road in Wednesbury, will serve the same time in prison – despite the offence being his first custodial sentence.
Both victims escaped with just minor injuries after the unprovoked attack, although in a victim impact statement one of them said they were 'embarrassed to go out' because of the facial injuries, which included bruising, that he had sustained.
Glanville, Abrahams and Norton all pleaded guilty to a charge of violent disorder at an earlier hearing on May 10.
Glanville was sentenced to 32 months in jail for his part in the violence.
"That goes no way of explaining the level of violence."
Recorder Nixon told the three men that their part in the attacks were clearly 'disconcerting' for bystanders who were caught up in violence, while the man knocked out was 'very, very lucky' not to have suffered any greater injury.
