Bradford City supporters are calling on away fans to be banned from the new corner stand after trouble flared at the Manchester United match on Saturday.

Some of the 2,200 away supporters in the corner stand 'invaded' the adjoining A block in the Carlsberg kop stand where families groups were sitting.

Supporters club chairman Julie Stainthorpe said she had written to chairman Geoffrey Richmond because she had received 'lots of calls' from supporters who said away fans should not be put in the corner stand.

Instead, they should be in the Bradford end of the Ciba stand on Midland Road next to where other away fans sit in the Symphony Stand at the Bradford end of the ground.

The match attracted a crowd of 20,551, City's biggest for 31 years, including 4,000 United supporters split between the Symphony Stand and the corner stand.

The same arrangement applied for the Sunderland match on Boxing Day when the corner stand was brought into use for the first time and was due to apply for the following match against Liver-pool, but this match was called off because of the weather.

Helen Jeffrey, from Keighley, whose friend Lindsay Leach was attacked by a United fan said: "Manchester United fans should not be sitting next to A block in the kop with children there.

"The trouble started after United scored their first goal. There was a gap in the segregation and United fans came straight over into A block. Up to then there had been a lot of banter between the fans.

"We want to move our season tickets because we don't want to sit near away fans again. We believe there is a danger in putting away fans there. We had to take the children out.

"I met City's managing director Shaun Harvey after the game and told him I thought we ought to have had more stewards. We were told no one would be able to get through into A block but they did. What happened on Saturday should not happen again.

"We also understood that the United fans in the corner stand would be family groups, but most of them were men in their 20s and 30s.

"A lot of supporters were caught on CCTV."