Police praise derby match supporters

Although officers had to intervene and break up what they referred to as a "little bit of a shouting match" on Bradfield Road, close to the football ground, the Championship clash passed without any major incidents.

Chief Supt Simon Torr, who headed yesterday's policing operation, commended the majority of the Owls and Blades fans who attended the game.

He said: "It went well. There were 35,000 fans and hardly any disorder at all. The atmosphere was quite raucous, as it is at any derby game, but the overwhelming majority of fans behaved well."

Of those people arrested, three were held for breaching their football banning orders. Two of those were caught inside the ground and the other was picked up in the area around the Sheffield Wednesday ground. Another arrest was made for drunk and disorderly behaviour, one for a "minor assault", one for affray, and one for possession of an offensive weapon –- a broken bottle.

Violence erupted as football fans clashed ahead of Huddersfield Town's home match against Millwall. Missiles and bricks were thrown between the supporters after trouble flared in Wakefield Road, Waterloo, Huddersfield, at about 7pm last Friday.