A man who was injured at Stoke City's Britannia Stadium has died in hospital, reports BBC Sport. Police were alerted to an incident in a concourse of the Britannia Stadium's south stand which housed Blackburn fans just after half-time on Saturday.

The 30-year-old fan, who was thought to have been hit on the head with a bin, was found unconscious. He was taken to hospital where he later died.

A 25-year-old man from Preston has been arrested over the incident.

Staffordshire Police said the injured man was initially treated at the scene for a head injury and cardiac arrest by staff from West Midlands Ambulance Service and St John Ambulance.

The fan was resuscitated at the scene and then taken to hospital.

A police spokesman said: "A 30-year-old man was pronounced dead at 1.55am this morning at University Hospital North Staffordshire.

"The circumstances are being fully investigated and a 25-year-old man remains in custody and is helping police with their inquiries."

Ch Insp Adrian Roberts, match commander at the game which saw Stoke beat Blackburn Rovers 3-0, said there were just over 1,300 Blackburn fans at the game, and no Stoke fans were involved in the incident.

Martin Smith, editor of The Oatcake, a Stoke City fanzine, said: "All football fans... are a fellowship, you know a brotherhood. We all go through the same things.

"We all attend the match to watch our team, support our team, and when something like this happens, we all feel it.

"Rivalry goes out of the window completely and we see ourselves as what we are, football supporters, and it's a terrible tragedy."

Malcolm Clarke, chair of the Football Supporters' Federation, said: "It clearly wasn't in any way related to violence or anything like that between home and away supporters.

"It just sounds like a terrible tragedy, the circumstances of which we don't know."