A WANDERERS supporter was taken to hospital with head injuries after football hooligans clashed following the Premiership game at West Bromwich Albion.

Police said that some of the hooligans were wielding snooker cues as they fought outside Albion's Hawthorns ground on Saturday.

The fan -- who has not been identified -- was taken to Sandwell General hospital, near Birmingham, where he received stitches to a minor head wound.

West Midlands Police said the man was injured as more than 30 fans fought in a car park used by both home and away supporters outside the Moat House hotel -- half a mile from the ground. Fighting also broke out between rival supporters outside the ground's Smethwick End as fans left at the end of the match.

The game ended in a 1-1 draw, with Bolton conceding a late Albion equaliser. There were no reports of violence inside the ground.

One West Bromwich Albion fan -- who travelled to the game from Worcester -- said the fighting away from the stadium looked to have been "pre-arranged".

He said: "There was a lot of shouting and then 20 or so Albion fans appeared at the top of an embankment, which leads from the motorway island into a car park. They started to kick at the fence and came running down towards the Bolton fans in the car park.

"All hell broke loose and it was pretty frightening. There were police everywhere."

Insp Howard Lewis-Jones, of West Midlands Police, said the injured man was a Bolton supporter, who did not co-operate with the police inquiry and refused to give details of how he was injured.

He added: "We found two snooker cues in the car park after the incident and officers were put on a state of high alert after the incident."

No arrests were made, and police inquiries into Saturday's incident are continuing today.