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Revealed: Police arrested a 16-year-old football fan on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon before West Brom's violent FA Cup clash with Wolves, as cops review body-cams to arrest more supporters involved in trouble

A 16-year-old football fan was stopped by police and arrested in a pub for possessing an offensive weapon prior to West Bromwich Albion's nasty FA Cup clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Play in the Black Country FA Cup derby at The Hawthorns was suspended for more than half an hour after trouble flared in the stands and fans spilled onto the pitch.

But it has now been revealed that of the six arrests made thus far by West Midlands Police, one of them came in a pub before the game, with the teenager stopped and searched in a pub.