“Then the fight became a full-on melee as the crowd found its nerve and joined the fray.”

“I've quite the fondness for the geographical art of flattening our peaks and valleys into a melee of lines and swirls.”

“Several melees broke out on the field as the game threatened to spill over into all out violence.”

“My family and I have been woken in the early hours by football chants, fights and general melees on occasions too numerous to recall.”

“Both Cork goals were scored from melees in front of the posts and both were controversial.”