Two men arrested after attack on Spurs fans in Rome An Italian police officer outside the Drunken Ship pub in Rome, where Tottenham Hotspur fans were attacked. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images Italian police have arrested two men on suspicion of attempted murder after a group of masked assailants attacked Tottenham Hotspur fans in a Rome pub, injuring 10 people including one who was stabbed in the groin. Up to 50 people armed with sticks, knives and iron bars laid waste to the pub, the Drunken Ship in the Campo de Fiori piazza, before fleeing down side streets. The two men will go before a judge on Saturday who may hand down sentences on the same day using a fast-track procedure used in crimes related to football violence. The arrests came as the English FA prepared to report antisemitic chanting by Lazio fans during Tottenham Hotspur's goalless draw with Lazio in the Europa League in Rome on Thursday. The attack, just after 1am on Thursday, was initially blamed on hardcore fans of Lazio, who are renowned for their racism and far-right politics, but the two arrested men are fans of Roma, Lazio's city rivals. "It is possible the Roma 'Ultra' fans wanted this to be blamed on Lazio fans," said one police source. The arrested men were named as Francesco Ianari, 27, and Mauro Pinnelli, 26. Ianari, a market stall holder, received a stadium ban in 2006 after he turned over a police car with other football fans while celebrating Italy's victory over Ukraine at the 2006 World Cup. He was arrested after a bus driver spotting him boarding a bus with bloodstained hands after the attack on Thursday. Police arrested Pinnelli after finding mobile phone texts sent to him by Ianari. Once considered leftwing, Roma fans have increasingly veered to the far right in recent years. In 2001 fans of the team stabbed Liverpool fans visiting Rome for a Uefa cup game and they also attacked Manchester United fans in 2007. The Lazio chairman, Claudio Lotito, denied Lazio fans were involved in the attack on the pub, although one motorbike helmet dropped at the scene of the raid bore a slogan used by Lazio fans. In October, Lazio were fined £32,500 by Uefa after fans targeted Spurs players with racist abuse at their side's Europa League match against Spurs in London. The Italian daily Corriere della Sera suggested the masked assailants could have included fans of both Roma and Lazio who had overcome the traditional rivalry between the teams. While witnesses to the attack reported that the assailants hurled antisemitic abuse during the raid, Corriere della Sera reported that none of the witnesses had confirmed their initial statements in formal interviews with police. Ashley Mills, 25, the Spurs fan from Brentwood, Essex, who was hit over the head and stabbed in the groin, lost two litres of blood. He said on Thursday the Spurs fans at the Drunken Ship had no idea an attack was coming. "There was a good atmosphere in the bar," he said. Everyone from back home having a few drinks. We were having fun. And then the atmosphere changed really quickly. I was standing outside the bar drinking and the next thing I know there are loads of them. It happened very quickly. I don't remember much. I remember being pulled out, along the ground after I had been stabbed," he said. Mills said the trip to Rome was his first overseas to watch Spurs, but added he would do it again. "It's a one-off, and now I want to get out of here as soon as possible and put this behind me," he said.