Anish Vij
The holidaymaker involved in a brutal Ibiza swimming pool brawl has spoken out after a British footballer reportedly threw a plastic chair at a woman.
A viral clip shows a fight break out around the pool area at the Marco Polo hotel in San Antonio, Ibiza, on 21 June.
Videos of the chaotic clash show objects being hurled, glassware smashed, and one woman struck in the head by a chair.
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It seems the altercation involved Kian Harratt, a footballer for Oldham Athletic.
He was filmed picking up and throwing a pool chair that accidentally hit a woman, causing her to collapse to the ground.
Taking to TikTok, the 23-year-old apologised and said he'd stepped in to defend a friend of his, who'd apparently been attacked after confronting a '6'6 bully' for making people feel 'uncomfortable' at the pool.
However, that man he is talking about is Brandon Watkins, 31, who claims he is 6'4 and 'not a bully'.
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Giving his side of the story, Brandon told MailOnline: "The fight happened on day five of our holiday. We'd been around that pool every day and getting on with everybody and making friends with people.
"These guys turned up and started throwing balls about. Several people were saying they’re going to be trouble even before it kicked off.
"At one point one of his mates got in the pool next to me and just started aggressively splashing me. One of them said 'what are you looking at?'
"They were just being a nightmare. One lad was winding us up. Kian was sat right next to him and if anything, Kian was provoking him."
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He said one thing led to another as Kian 'picked up the chair and threw it'.
Brandon claimed to stay with the injured woman and her friends after the footballer and his group were kicked out of the hotel.
"Would I have done that if I was a bully who was making them uncomfortable?" he added.
Meanwhile, a friend of the woman who was hit by a pool chair said she had 'never seen anything like it in my life'.
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"My friend was injured. They were all just shouting and swearing at each other," she recalled.
"She's an absolute angel and such a good person which is why she got involved - she saw people were arguing and she just went over to stop it."
After the footage went viral, the footballer apologised for accidentally hitting the woman and said he 'felt terrible' for it.
LADBible has reached out to representatives of Harratt for comment.