The city of Manchester today hastily abandoned all plans to put up big screens around the city for next week's all-English Champions League final after a "baying mob" of Scottish football thugs last night went on the rampage in the city, attacking police officers and civilians.

Police released video footage of the attacks this morning, showing marauding mobs of Glasgow Rangers fans running through the streets and officers being pelted with bottles and chased. In one dramatic sequence, a mob hunts down an officer and pounces on him.

The scenes were described as a "disgrace" by Gordon Brown, who indicated that only supporters with tickets for a match should travel to a city hosting the event in future.

Richard Leese, the city council leader, said that Manchester would not mark European football's showpiece game next Wednesday because it would be unfair on businesses and residents after what they had endured during the events of last night.

In an evening of violence, which police said had left them "sickened and disappointed," one fan of the club's Russian opponents in last night's UEFA Cup Final, Zenit St Petersburg, was stabbed before kickoff outside the City of Manchester Stadium, and was rushed to hospital. He was said to be in a stable condition today.

Scores of Rangers fans hurled bottles at technical staff in the city's central Piccadilly area, who were trying to repair a fault with a big screen located there 15 minutes before kickoff. As a result of the attacks, staff were swiftly withdrawn for their own safety.

After attempts to repair the fault failed, the council said it laid on free transport for 11,000 fans to be moved to the Velodrome, near the stadium, where an alternative screen had been put up, but some fans refused to go, instead attacking police officers.

Violence also took place outside the stadium after Rangers' 2-0 defeat, including more attacks on police. A total of 52 assaults were recorded in Manchester last night, many directed against officers, and 42 fans - all believed to be supporters of Rangers - were arrested. Fifteen police officers and a police dog were treated for injuries.

One senior officer was hit so hard that his electronic earpiece was left embedded in his head and had to be removed by doctors.

Mr Leese said that more than 100,000 Rangers fans had descended on the city for the final, with around 13,000 of them having had tickets for the game. The rest tried to take advantage of the council putting up big screens in different locations around the city.

The vast majority behaved well, he said, but added: "A small number of Rangers fans have let themselves down and they’ve let their city down.

"I think it would be a real mistake for what was a very very small minority of Rangers fans to say that their behaviour can be excused by a technical problem with a screen. If we are going to put a finger of blame anywhere it has to be with those fans having to take responsibility for their own behaviour."

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