EMERGENCY services attended to reports of a collapsed man at a football stadium this afternoon.

Paramedics and the police were called to Ewood Park at around 3pm on New Years Day to reports of a collapsed male.

A police spokesman confirmed that they had attended to issue medical support to paramedics.

The spokesman said: "Medical support was provided to a collapsed male at Blackburn Rovers Vs West Brom today."

By-standers report seeing one ambulance and a police car on Nuttall Street.