Sounds like my old local, are you sure your not mistaking this incident for a Poxford at home match?
I have spent a lot of my early years in The Melbourne. Back when big Barry was the landlord, and the place was full of nurses, from St Crispin.
One time, back in the early eighties, after a pub jolly to Huntingdon races, we got jumped on by a load of Cambridge fans. It was no contest. Male psychiatric nurses, can certainly look after themselves!