TWO men broke the jaw of a football supporter after a match at the Kassam Stadium when he started chanting the name of a goalscorer, a court heard.

Dagenham and Redbridge fan Jack Conner celebrated his 21st birthday on August 30, 2014 by travelling to watch his team play Oxford United.

After the game finished 3-3, Mr Conner and his friends went to the nearby Bowlplex to wait for a taxi and have a drink, a court heard.

Prosecutor Christopher Hewertson told a jury of five women and seven men at Oxford Crown Court yesterday that Mr Conner’s friend had began chanting the name of Dagenham striker Jamie Cureton across the bar.

Mr Hewertson said the chanting attracted the attention of Jordan Hastie, Clifford Whistler, who was wearing an Oxford United shirt, and his son Darren.

The court heard Oxford United fans Hastie, 28, and Whistler, 56, had crossed the bar and punched Mr Conner multiple times to his jaw, causing two fractures.

Giving evidence, Mr Conner said the blows left him covered in blood.

Mr Conner travelled home to Essex, where he had emergency surgery to insert a plate in his jaw.

Hastie, of Windrush Tower, in Knight’s Road, Blackbird Leys and Whistler, of Birchfield Close, Blackbird Leys, deny inflicting grievous bodily harm.

Alexandra Bull, defending Hastie, said Mr Conner and his friends had upset the Oxford United fans with their shouting.

She added: “Your group were the aggressors, were you not?”

Mr Conner denied he and his friends had been deliberately offensive.

The trial continues.