Two men were arrested after a group of Wetherspoons customers 'started a fight when refused service'.
The 'disturbance' happened outside The Ford Madox Brown on Wilmslow Road near Rusholme at around 9.30pm on Sunday night (July 25).
A group of customers who were sitting outside the pub started 'fighting amongst themselves when they had been refused service', a spokesperson for the pub chain said.
Police officers intervened and two men, aged 25 and 29, were arrested on suspicion of affray.
They both received minor injuries.
They have since been bailed and enquiries are ongoing, a GMP spokesperson said.
A picture taken at the scene on Sunday night showed a man and police officer on the ground outside the pub on the busy road.
The man appeared to have a bandage around his head and there appeared to be blood on his shirt.
The officer appeared to be tending to his injury.
In a statement, a spokesperson for GMP said: "Officers were called to a report of a disturbance just after 9.30pm on Sunday (25 July 2021) at a pub on Wilmslow Road in Manchester.
"Officers attended and two men received minor injuries. The men, aged 29 and 25, were arrested on suspicion of affray.
"They were both bailed.
"Enquiries are ongoing."
A JD Wetherspoon spokesperson said: "There was an incident at Ford Madox on Sunday evening.
"A group of customers who were sat outside started fighting amongst themselves when they had been refused service.
"A passing police van pulled up and arrested a couple of them as the managers went to intervene."
