An unauthorised rally staged by fans of struggling football club FC Saturn in Ramenskoye was dispersed by police on Sunday, RIA Novosti reported. Saturn’s future has been uncertain for several weeks following a statement from the Moscow region government – which owns the team – that it could no longer afford to support it. Fans that showed up for the rally held a banner that read, “Vladimir Romanov, welcome to planet Saturn,” referring to a Lithuanian entrepreneur of Russian ancestry, who was reportedly in negotiations to buy the struggling team. Police stepped in nearly immediately, detaining 39 fans. Most of those detained were later released, but 17 people were charged either with public intoxication or participation in an unauthorised rally, RIA reported, citing local police sources.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:41 pm
Fifteen arrested as rival fans clash at crunch derby game
FIFTEEN football fans have been charged with public order offences after violent clashes at the derby match between Crewe Alexandra and Port Vale.
Nine Crewe fans and six Vale supporters are due to appear in court within the next couple of days in connection with the disorder that took place before, during and after the crunch League Two fixture at Crewe's Alexandra Stadium on Saturday.
Police said the most serious disorder took place in the Nantwich Road/Mill Street area before kick-off, where eight of the 15 arrests were made.
Bricks were thrown at police as about 60 supporters of both teams were involved in a confrontation.
However, officers have praised the behaviour of the majority of the 7,183 supporters who watched Crewe's 2-1 victory.
Kerrie Havens, landlady at The Last Orders Inn, Nantwich Road, said: "There was fighting on the car park at the back of our pub before the game, but I don't know which sets of fans were involved or how many took part.
"At about 2.10pm the riot police came in, shut the pub down and said no-one was to enter or leave.
"They guarded the front door and had officers with police dogs on the back door to make sure there wasn't any trouble.
"At 2.30pm, they took all of the Port Vale fans out and escorted them to the ground."
A police helicopter circled above the area for the majority of the afternoon to lookout for any hotspots of disorder.
After the match, police cordoned off Nantwich Road by The Barrel pub and forced fans to walk along Pedley Street to get to the train station and car parks.
One Crewe fan, who declined to be named, said: "There were about 25 police officers in Nantwich Road after the match, but they forced all of the fans to go down a side street, which had no police on it.
"Some fans started to charge at one another each and I saw one man getting kicked in the head opposite the Waverley Hotel.
"It was scary because you didn't know who were Vale fans and who were Crewe fans."
A spokesman for Cheshire Police said: "The majority of trouble happened before the match in and around Nantwich Road, when about 30 supporters from both sides were involved in a confrontation with one another.
"Police were on the scene quickly and managed to control the situation.
"No-one was seriously injured and it was only a small amount of people who were intent on causing trouble.
"The majority were well behaved."
Twelve Vale fans were arrested at Burnley last Saturday during the side's 4-2 defeat in the FA Cup.
Meanwhile, Stoke travel to Cardiff tomorrow for their FA Cup third round replay.
About a dozen fans were arrested for criminal damage, public order offences and assault after the first match at the Britannia Stadium on January 8.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:44 pm
Poland: one supporter stabbed to death - ??/01/2011
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Cracovia lads leader, 30 years old, was stabbed to death in Krakow.
Thirty-year old Tomasz C., believed to be Cracovia sports club’s supporters’ number-two man, has been brutally killed on the streets of Krakow by a group thought to be supporters of their local rivals Wisła Kraków. The killing occurred at about 10 am this morning in the suburban Krakow neighbourhood of Kurdwanów. According to reports, Tomasz C. was driving on ul. Wysołuchów when three cars forced his vehicle off the road.
Approximately 20 assailants then pulled him from the driver’s seat and attacked him with knives and machetes stabbing and chopping at him over fifty times before leaving him dead.
Polish football is plainly plagued by a long list of structural, organisational, financial, and corruption-related problems, all of which impact the quality of play on the nation’s pitches. The Polish Football Association (PZPN) is widely regarded as riddled with corruption, a viewpoint confirmed by continuing arrests related to a sprawling scandal, masterminded by a shadowy “football mafia” boss known in the press only as “the Barber”. Logistical problems are also common, and a Friday night match in Lublin in August was unable to resume as scheduled after the intermission when the pitch lighting went dark for nearly an hour. On top of these problems, there is the dismsl performance of the national side over the past two years, which speaks for itself.
Of all of these problems, none is more obvious than the persistent issue of violent hooliganism and the chilling effect it has on the development of the game throughout the country. As Poland prepares to host the 2012 European Championships, its ability to keep order at matches is being put to the test, and organisers and authorities alike are looking to new solutions to improve security and change the thug culture that permeates the crowds at Polish football matches.
Progress
While the situation surrounding football violence has improved from the deadly excesses of the 1990s and early 2000s, it remains so endemic in Poland’s most popular game that it is often viewed with resignation as an unavoidable function of the football itself. The atmosphere at some stadiums is so threatening that families are almost completely absent, and damage to facilities is not uncommon.
Attendees of the first round match of the Polish Cup in Bydgoszcz incontrovertibly illustrated the phenomenon of destructive fan behaviour, harming the very clubs that the “hools” purport to support, by demolishing their own stadium in a battle with police and rival fans on 27 August. Chairs and barricades were torn up to be used as weapons against one another and the 1,000 or so police officers, and the newly installed cameras were predictably targeted and destroyed. The damage was estimated at about 100,000 złoty (28,000 euro). The PZPN announced that the club, Zawisza Bydgoszcz, will play their next five home matches in front of the ruins of their own empty stands. In a livid statement in response to the riot, the board of the club condemned the fans and indicated that they may consider closing the club altogether.
A Nuanced Subculture of Crime and Fear
The firms are entrenched social institutions, and their relationships with one another and with their clubs are almost Byzantine in their complexity. Most of the clubs’ firms have networks of allegiances with one another, resulting in the bizarre phenomenon of matches during which supporters, rather than singing insults and threats at the visiting fans, exchange praise and pledges of eternal loyalty with them. Nevertheless, the pervasive aggressive atmosphere at some stadiums is so toxic that Krakow’s Cracovia, for example, has struggled to remain in the top league over the past few years as its powerful gang of hooligan “supporters” has created a powerfully negative atmosphere at its stadium, driving away potential families as it rallies its hooligan base.
They can also function as fairly sophisticated criminal organisations, demanding protection money from the clubs and using the stadiums as gang turf on which to conduct business such as trafficking drugs, as was reported at Lech Poznań in February, shortly before the club clinched the 2010 championship.
Politicians and Courts Respond
Reports on the subject of football-related crime by the national police service point to successes in enforcement and the statistical decline of crimes at football matches, and warn against hysterical efforts to sharpen penalties. Nevertheless, police and prosecutors have pushed for the implementation of new expedited court procedures, which are to streamline processes for perpetrators to be tried within 24 hours of their arrests. The Ministry of Justice hopes to use the express courts in conjunction with proposed clarifications to the law, which ban troublemakers for up to six years by quickly applying the bans and would enforce them with the threat of imprisonment for up to two years.
The stadium bans have proven difficult to enforce. As the event organisers are responsible for barring banned persons from entering matches, checking identification against printed records is extremely time consuming, leaving clubs fuming in frustration. As a result of the Bydgoszcz fiasco, Justice Minister Krzysztof Kwiatowski has offered a solution, proposing that offenders who are convicted of stadium crimes be fitted with ankle monitors like those used for house arrests. The system would monitor their whereabouts, allowing police and clubs to ensure that prohibited persons are not present at matches.
Problem Extends Beyond the Stadium
While enforcement of stadium bans may be one piece of the puzzle, the solution to the problem of football firms does not begin and end at the turnstiles. When the PZPN firmed up its policy of punishing clubs by closing their stands following serious incidents of disorder over the past decade, the firms, who have organised their own fighting “league”, began to use social media to organise massive brawls in hideaways within the national park network.
One of the most shocking Polish football riot incidents occurred not at a stadium at all, but near the University of Łódź in 2004, when a running battle between police forces and football hooligans encountered a large group of revellers taking part in the annual Juvenalia student festival. As the hooligans hurled bottles and rocks, the police mistakenly fired real bullets instead of rubber ones at the crowd of mixed students and rioters, killing two people. One, a young man, was reportedly active in the Łódź Widzew firm, and attended the match that night. The other, a 23-year-old woman, was a bystander visiting her boyfriend who was working at the student event. Furthermore, these deaths may have been preventable had the ambulances en route not been delayed by an attack by drunken hooligans, who threw rocks at them and attempted to overturn them.
Will New Venues Solve the Problem?
The fleet of new stadiums under construction for Euro 2012, along with those being modernised with EU funds, may go a long way toward ensuring safety for families and fans who come to see their club play rather than fight or die for it. The new Cracovia stadium’s impending inauguration has been accompanied by a pointed PR campaign by the organisation, making safety a major talking point. Other new venues are in the works in a dozen cities, but it remains to be seen whether they will impact the the underworld culture.
They may, if only by drawing middle class crowds who are unwilling to tolerate thuggish behaviour. Of course, if the stakeholders in Polish football are serious about doing that, they also need to address that long list of structural, organisational, financial, and corruption-related problems. And see to it that the play on the field is watchable.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:46 pm
Liverpool FC - Everton FC - 16/01/2011
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/01/17/football-fan-attacked-and-beaten-on-way-to-merseyside-derby-match-100252-27998427/ Football fan attacked and beaten on way to Merseyside derby match
ONLOOKERS watched in horror as a group of thugs carried out an unprovoked attack on a football fan as he made his way to the Merseyside derby at Anfield.
The sickening assault happened near to the King Harry pub before the start of yesterday afternoon’s match.
Witnesses described seeing a large gathering of youths, aged around 16 to 18 and clad from head to foot in black.
A number then ran down Anfield Road and punched the man to the ground, kicking him as he lay helpless on the pavement.
Two people who tried to come to the man’s aid were also beaten.
The victim was left with a broken jaw and was taken to hospital for treatment.
A pool of blood was still visible yesterday where the attack took place.
Police cordoned off the area at the junction of Anfield Road and Blessington Road for several hours for forensic examination which meant some fans faced difficulty leaving the stadium after the match.
The doorman at the King Harry, who asked not to be named, said: “There was a big gang of kids in black hoodies and it was obvious that something was about to go off.
“As the Everton fans were walking towards the away fans’ entrance some of these kids ran up the road and punched this man in the side of the head and then six or seven of them were kicking him all over the pavement.
“He was in a bad way and he was really hurt with blood coming out of his ear.”
A tannoy announcement was made at the end of yesterday’s 2-2 draw to warn people that Anfield Road was closed by the King Harry pub because of an incident.
Liverpool FC fan Peter Brannigan, who regularly travels from Northern Ireland to watch matches, said: “I got a text from my brother-in-law in Northern Ireland asking if I was all right because he’d heard the tannoy announcement while watching the game on Sky TV.
“What’s happened is absolutely disgusting. This is the second time the pub has had to be closed even though it had nothing to do with what’s going on outside.”
Some witnesses also criticised the police for having only two community support officers present in Anfield Road at the time of the incident.
Match Commander Chief Superintendent Dave Lewis said yesterday: “Whilst we are dealing with an assault there were no further incidents during the policing of the derby match and both sets of fans on the whole behaved well before, during and post the derby.
“Officers arrested five people for low level offences and ejected two people from the stadium. I’d like to thank the fans for their behaviour on the whole and would appeal to anyone who has any information about the assault on Anfield Road to come forward and contact detectives with any information they may have.”
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Lower Lane CID on 0151 777 4564/4565 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:53 pm
Sunday night, two buses from Bordeaux were attacked by Marseille missiles
Vehicles were full with Ultramarines supporters. Men who attacked the buses tried to hit the driver with a bottle. No one was injured and two windows were smashed up.
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Just to add locals used only a few missiles but Bordeaux fans stayed inside their buses as we stopped them.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:51 pm
Brawling fans at Reading v Crystal Palace match caught - 18/01/2011
Source : english press (thanks to the sender)
Police have identified rowdy football fans who brawled in bars after a match in Reading against Crystal Palace in September.
Rival supporters threw objects at rival fans in bars around the Reading railway station after the September 11 clash.
The police have made a number of arrests after reviewing CCTV footage of the clashes.
A 19-year-old man from Tilehurst and a 20-year-old from Caversham were arrested, cautioned and banned from attending Reading football matches in December.
On Friday a 24-year-old man, from Erith, Kent, has been charged with using threatening words and behaviour and has been released on bail to appear at Maidenhead Magistrates’ Court on January 24, while a 19-year old from Beckenham, Kent, has been released on bail to return to Loddon Valley police station on January 28.
Detective Constable Jim Howden, who has led the investigation for Thames Valley Police, said: “I think this case shows that we are committed to tackling those who become involved in football related disorder and that we will work closely with other forces to ensure that all of those involved will be bought to justice.
“We do not generally suffer much football related disorder in Reading, but those people who do become involved will find themselves with criminal records and lengthy bans from attending football matches.”
Chief Inspector Bob Hedderman, from the Met Police, said: “People involved in football disorder who do not get arrested on the day of the game should not think that they have got away with it.
"We will always chase, seek to identify and arrest those involved in football disorder."
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:53 pm
Fans jailed for Blackburn Rovers-Burnley derby day clash - 18/01/2011
SEVEN Blackburn Rovers’ fans have been jailed for their part in violence which erupted following the club’s first Premier League clash with Burnley.
The fans had pleaded guilty to affray over the incident outside The Station pub in Preston Old Road, Blackburn, hours after the match.
Officers and a horse were hit with pint glasses and beer bottles as rival fans clashed with police trying to keep them apart.
Samuel Bowen, 26, of Melville Drive, Paul Rushton, 46, of Boxwood Drive, and Joshua Riley, 21, Solway Avenue, all Blackburn, and Christopher Sutton, 23, of Meadow Gardens, Rishton, were each jailed for a year and given seven-year football banning orders.
David Comberbach, 41, of Bank Hey View, Blackburn, was jailed for 10 months with a seven-year banning order.
Jordan Hoyle, 19 of Park Farm, was given 16 months and a seven year banning order.
18-year-old Samuel Hindle, of Shadsworth Road, Blackburn was given six months in a young offenders' institute plus a six year banning order.
An earlier hearing had been told the Burnley fans had ‘come looking for a fight’ and police had been fearful that ‘animosity, hatred and simmering rivalry’ would spill over into violence.
Twelve Burnley fans are due to be jailed today at Preston Crown Court for conspiring to commit violent disorder for their part in the derby day incident.
Amongst them is 44-year-old Andrew Porter, the author of Suicide Squad: The Inside Story of a Football Firm.
Porter has also appeared on TV show The Real Football Factories with Danny Dyer.
Porter, a self-employed roofer with 24 previous offences including fights with rival fans at home and abroad, was said by police to have arranged for a convoy of Union Cabs taxis to leave the Royal Butterfly pub in Burnley shortly after 5pm.
But his taxi got lost and he ended up at Blackburn Railway Station instead, frantically ringing his associates to find out what was going on as the incident took place without him.
He was convicted of conspiracy to commit violent disorder mainly on the telephone evidence against him.
While Porter was left stranded, three other vehicles made their way from Burnley to the Texaco garage in Feniscowles, the final rendezvous point before they parked up a few hundred yards from a 'lively and boisterous' The Station pub in Cherry Tree around 6pm.
Prosecuting, Francis McEntee, said the gang spread themselves across the width of Preston Old Road and came over the brow of the hill 'grunting and chanting' “Su-Su-Suicide”.
The landlord of the adjacent Beehive pub brought in elderly bystanders and closed the curtains, fearing his windows were about to be smashed.
Fortunately, a large police operation had been in place for the lunch-time kick-off and that had included a presence at The Station when officers noted that 'risk' Rovers supporters had 'unusually'
started making their way to the premises.
They managed to form a cordon between the Blackburn fans inside and outside the pub and the advancing Burnley fans, eventually 'corralling' the Suicide Squad back in the direction from where they came.
When the group of Burnley fans were arrested on order of the police match commander, one man was found with a snooker ball and a chunky padlock in his pockets for use as potential weapons.
Some of them gave a 'cobbled together' account that they were simply continuing their drinking into Blackburn.
Andrew Porter, 44, of Parliament Street, Daniel Tempest, 27, of Mitton Grove, Paul Hartley, 27, of Church Street, Mark Hamer, 28, of Olivant Close, Scott Page, 26, of Huntroyde Street, all Burnley; Steven Ball, 18, of Crabtree Avenue, Bacup; Joshua Slade, 18, of Kittiwake Road, Chorley; Sean Widdop, of Hornbeam Way, Manchester; Stuart Craig, 23, of Haverholt Close, Colne; Joshua Gornall, 22, of Northview, Eastburn, Yorkshire; Thomas McDonough, 23, of Valley Road, Barnoldswick; and Ian Grice, 37, of Herbert Street, Padiham will be sentenced for conspiracy to commit violent disorder.
The sentencing of two other men, Peter Bulcock, 49, of Dunlin Close, Gloucestershire, and Steven Gornall, 49, of Skipton Road, Steeton, Yorkshire, was adjourned for legal argument.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:54 pm
Cardiff City - Stoke City - FA Cup - 20/01/2011
Source : english press (thanks to the sender)
Four Stoke City fans arrested at Cardiff FA Cup replay
A SCUFFLE involving fans and police in the stands marred an otherwise good-natured FA Cup replay between Stoke City and Cardiff City.
Around 300 Potters fans made the trip to South Wales last night, ten days after the violent clashes which followed the initial meeting between the sides at the Britannia Stadium.
While police had to eject a small number of supporters of both teams from the Cardiff City Stadium during the match, there were no disturbances at the ground following Stoke's 2-0 win.
In total, four Stoke City fans and two Cardiff supporters were arrested for public order offences.
For most of the match, both sets of fans were boisterous but well-behaved, with the Stoke supporters baiting their opponents with England chants and other jibes.
A section of seating between the rival fans was left empty, with three lines of police officers and stewards ensuring they were kept well apart.
After 10 minutes Cardiff fans clashed with police, resulting in two males being escorted out of the stands.
And around 15 minutes before the end of normal time, there was a larger scuffle among the Stoke supporters, during which a policeman had his hat knocked off.
Police eventually managed to restore order, and a number of Stoke fans were ejected from the ground.
A spokesman for South Wales Police said it was a "relatively peaceful" night.
Stoke City fan Keith Lawson saw the disturbance.
The 48-year-old, of Chester, said: "It was just a bit of handbags really.
"They've had a couple of fans kicked out and so have we. It's just a minority of both sets of fans that cause trouble. It's all bravado really."
Following the final whistle, the Stoke fans were allowed to leave the ground immediately.
Some said they were concerned about the possibility of violence, but felt the game was well policed.
Robert Porter, aged 59, of May Bank, said: "The policing has been quite good here. We had an escort when we came in on the coach."
Joe Evans, aged 19, of Trentham, said: "I was at the first match but I didn't see any of the trouble. It's always at the back of your mind when you go to somewhere like Cardiff."
Grant Mantle, aged 20, of Westlands, said: "Cardiff does have a bit of a reputation. When you tell your dad you're going to a match there he'll tell you to be careful."
Nine males – six from South Wales and three from North Staffordshire – were arrested and bailed following violence clashes after the first match between the two sides on January 8.
Police officers also came under attack as youths hurled missiles.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:05 pm
AS Roma - Lazio Roma - Cup - 19/01/2011
Source : italian press (thanks to the sender)
The match is tonight.
Is triggered in the early hours of this morning controls ahead of the Italian Cup derby between Roma and Lazio this evening. The budget of some searches made by Digos towards 11 Lazio fans complained about four, three of which underwent DASPO, and large seizures of firecrackers, smoke bombs, brass knuckles and iron bars. Controls were performed as part of investigations launched after the violent events on the evening of January 8, in celebration of the anniversary of the founding of Lazio.
A 37 year-old was found in possession of four smoke bombs and firecrackers of 12 large-caliber Rambo type 31 k, with a total weight of 330 gr. of explosive material. In addition to the complaint was submitted to Daspo (ban to the stadium) for a period of 5 years. He had a avyuto in 2009, but suspended the Tar Lazio. He served for a fight, outrage, violence and resistance to public official or personal injury. For the store in which the explosive material was found has already started the investigation for the cessation of trading.
A 23 year-old had increased from 3 to 5 years Daspo which was already addressed, in addition to the complaint: was found in possession of an iron bar and two plastic rods of varying length from 60 to 90 cm. The bar was found inside the car of 23 year old, in which there were also clothes, is likely to change in case of accidents. The young is unprecedented for contempt for judicial body and resisting a public officer.
A 30 year old with a history for insulting a magistrate at the hearing and interruption of public service, was sued for holding a knuckle and a telescopic baton. Even for him the fire daspo for a period of 5 years. A fourth supporter has been denounced for the violation instead of a special watch, which had already been submitted.
Tension around the Olympic Stadium before the derby of Italy Cup: the coach of Lazio was the object of an stone-throwing at Duca d'Aosta bridge. Shattered a window. The team manager biancoceleste, Maurizio Manzini, was accompanied to the emergency room because of injuries to the face from shattered window hit by a large stone.
In Piazza della Farnesina a boy of 15 years, the Lazio fan, was stabbed in a buttock around at 18.15 and was transported to St. Philip Blacks but it would be in serious condition.
About forty persons apprehended after a few tense moments at the Olympic Stadium after the match Roma-Lazio derby in the Italian Cup. The officials who accompanied the detainees to the police station and each will have examined a single location. The tensions have occurred in Duca D'Aosta bridge, when a group of Roma fans threw bottles and firecrackers have against the police: officers have advanced training more strings at various points and by filtering as people have made first back and then blocked the fans stopped. The latter had also tried to get in touch with supporters of Lazio.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:53 pm
Telstar - NAC Breda - Cup - ??/01/2011
Source: dutch press
A severe brawl occured between both sides when NAC scored. Local hardcore reacted especially because some NAC fans were in their stand.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:04 am
France: free fight - ??/01/2011
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Free fight 15 Lyon vs 15 Nancy. Lyon won
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:28 am
A group of radical fans, named Ultras Violetas, were arrested due to damages on a car park on the A6 motor way.
Authorities said a group of people have stolen things inside the shop when another group caused damages inside the toilets.
Everything was CCTV-ed.
During the game, troubles occured, opposing this same mob, joined by Alcala ultra, rivals of Alcorcon, to police
Translation Underground Fans (c)
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:50 pm
CD Tenerife - UD Las Palmas - 23/01/2011
Source : spanish ress
About 1.000 Las Palmas supporters made the trip for this spanish derby from Islas Canarias. When they arrived to the stadium they were pelted by missiles from locals who were already inside the stadium.
Translation Underground Fans (c)
Las Palmas
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:01 pm
Seven people have been arrested for offences connected with the Nottingham Forest and Derby County football match.
Two men were arrested after a confrontation between fans near Derby's Pride Park stadium.
Three others were arrested over public order offences, one for common assault against a police officer and another for breaching a football banning order.
Despite this, police thanked the majority of fans for their good behaviour during the day.
Supt Gary Parkin, who was match commander, said: "A small group of fans confronted each other in the east car park but officers intervened before the situation could escalate.
"I feel that our strategy for policing the match was successful, however it is disappointing that fans who attended the match purely to enjoy the game had to witness pockets of disorder."
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:13 pm
CS Sedan - FC Metz - 23/01/2011
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After the game, locals gave their position and Metz mob fronted them and charged. Twenty lads on both sides. Metz won.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:19 pm
DESPITE the pleas for calm before the APOEL-Omonia football derby and the largest ever police presence at the game, hooligans caused still caused mayhem on Saturday leaving one police officer stabbed.
Before the game President Demetris Chrstofias had ordered police to be “unrelenting and merciless” in their fight against hooliganism, while APOEL president Fivos Erotokritou and Omonia president Miltiades Neophytou implored fans to be calm during and after the game.
But it appears as if their pleas fell on deaf ears as once again the game was marred with extreme violence.
The 30-year-old off-duty policeman, who is part of the presidential guard was dragged out of his car by two men wearing hoods and was stabbed three times before the game. He was wearing an Omonia scarf.
The incident occurred at 5pm, about an hour before kick off at the Latsia flyover towards Nicosia. The policeman was a passenger in the car when two APOEL fans attacked the vehicle he was in.
One fan broke both car windows, on the driver’s and front passenger’s side with a baseball bat. The other fan then opened the passenger door and pulled out a 20 centimetre blade. He then stabbed the 30-year-old three times on his left arm.
Both victims were transported to Nicosia General Hospital for treatment where the policeman received a total of 40 stitches.
“Anyone of us could have been in the off-duty officer’s position right now,” police spokesman Michael Katsounotos said yesterday. “When a man stabs his fellow citizen over a scarf and puts his life in danger then that’s the degradation of the whole portion of society that wants to be called football fans.”
Katsounotos pleaded with anyone who has information about the incident to pass it on to police anonymously through the number 1460 as “without help from the public we will not be able to solve this crime”.
Katsounotos added that the men could not be recognised as they were wearing hoods. “The police of chief was ridiculed a little while ago when he wanted to ban hoods. Now we can see that he was right and we will be looking to ban hoods in and around sport arenas.”
The game which APOEL won 1-0 was marred by additional incidents just before and just after kick off. APOEL fans threw objects and chairs at Omonia fans in the west stand just before kick off, but police intervened and no one was seriously injured.
After the game ended Omonia fans threw rocks and other objects at policemen who returned fire with tear gas. Two18-year-olds were arrested at the scene, charged and released by police.
Three other men were also arrested after one was hanging out of a car window with a lit flare. Upon searching the vehicle le police found bats and additional flares, both men were arrested, charged and also released.
Justice Minister Loucas Louca, meanwhile, met with police officials yesterday to discuss the increase of h hooliganism on the island.
“The police will be merciless, while some portion of the blame must lay with the political parties and the clubs who incite fans with their some of their statements.”
In regards to the stabbing of the police officer Louca said: “Investigations are underway and we are treating this case as an attempted murder. We have already spoken to the victim and some eye witnesses.” Louca also said that he has given the Chief of Police orders to solve the crime immediately.
The board of directors of APOEL also released a statement in regards to the incident: “APOEL ltd condemns the actions of some fans and extends its sympathy towards the police officer that got injured. It appears like APOEL fans are responsible and we condemn this and any violence that tarnishes the name of football. Violence needs to stay away from stadiums and fans that behave in such a manner have no place at games.”
The police revealed last week that sports hooliganism had risen 52 per cent in 2010 over the previous year.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:28 pm
Atalanta Bergamo - Varese - 23/01/2011
Source : italian press
Two Varese supporters were assaulted by four local ultras, just at the end of the game, ended 0-0. The assault was commited as both of them came back to their car. Their were punched and fought with belts. One of them was wounded at his head.
Translation Underground Fans (c)
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:28 pm
AC Milan - Cesena - 23/01/2011
Source : italian press
It seems a fight opposed two mobs from both sides.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:59 pm
14 Serbs convicted for killing Frenchman - 25/01/2011
Source: AP
A Belgrade court on Tuesday convicted 14 Serbs of the fatal beating of a French football fan, describing a brutal scene in which the attackers cornered the man, hit him with iron bars and threw him down a narrow stairway.
The Higher Court sentenced the men to between four and 35 years in prison, with four ringleaders receiving sentences of between 30 and 35 years in jail. The court said most of them brutally attacked 28-year-old Brice Taton in front of a downtown cafe in the Serbian capital before Partizan Belgrade's Europa Cup match against Toulouse on Sept. 17, 2009.
Serbia has seen a recent surge in fan violence. Last year, Serbian lawmakers amended the criminal law to pave the way for tougher penalties against far-right hooligan violence.
Hundreds of Partizan fans and family members of the convicted men gathered at the Belgrade court for the reading of the verdict, some sobbing after hearing the sentences, and others protesting by shouting "you will pay for this" at the judges.
Two of the convicted remain at large and were tried in absentia.
Taton's family said through their lawyer that they were satisfied by the stiff sentences.
"I was not expecting there to be such heavy sentences," Philippe Maury, president of the Brice Taton Association, told Franch RMC radio. "There's a sense of justice and reassurance, especially concerning our friend Brice. Even though this will never bring him back."
Defence lawyers said they will appeal the ruling, and claimed it was passed under political pressure.
"The politics has beaten the justice," said Svetozar Vujacic, a defence lawyer. "This scandalous conviction will certainly be quashed by the appeals court."
About 150 people were injured last October during clashes between police and far-right supporters who tried to disrupt a gay pride march in the capital. Two days later, Serbian fans rioted in Italy during a European Championship qualifying match, causing it to be called off after seven minutes.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:49 pm
Serbian hooligans sentenced for murder of Toulouse fan - 25/01/2011
A Belgrade court on Tuesday sentenced 14 Serbian hooligans to a total 240 years in prison for the 2009 murder of a French football fan.
Two of the defendants, Djordje Prelic and Dejan Puzigaca, were handed prison terms of 35 and 32 years. Still at large, they were sentenced in their absence at the end of a seven-month trial.
Ljubomir Markovic and Ivan Grkovic got 30 years each and most of the others from the group were handed between 12 and 14 years.
Taton was a Toulouse football fan who travelled to Belgrade to watch his team play a Europa League match against Serbian champions Partizan.
All of the convicted Serbs are hooligan supporters of Partizan Belgrade. Prelic and Puzigaca ordered their followers to launch the unprovoked attack on visiting French fans.
Taton was sitting in a cafe in central Belgrade with other French fans when they were attacked by Serbian hooligans wielding bats, sticks iron bars and bottles.
Viciously beaten and thrown into a four-metre-high stairwell, Taton died in hospital 12 days later. His aorta was ruptured and doctors said nearly all of his vital organs had been damaged.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:57 pm
Uganda: Soccer Hooligans Should Not Be Handled With Kid Gloves - 25/01/2011
I had occasion to attend the ill-fated football match between bitter rivals Express FC and SC Villa at Wankulukuku on January 14, which saw ugly scenes of violence leading to the stoppage of the game for at least 10 minutes. I even sustained injuries as I fled from missiles hurled towards SC Villa fans!
I had been warned not to attend the match on account that this fixture is traditionally a fiercely contested one and could lead to violence. However, I ignored all warnings and went to the match venue. True to the earlier predictions the highly charged atmosphere was ignited by a late SC Villa goal, to which Express fans responded in a fashion that has earned them notoriety in local footballing circles.
Seven days later the Super League disciplinary committee sat and meted out its punishment, a mere one million shilling fine to Express FC for failure to provide adequate security at Wankulukuku. While I welcome the fact that some action was taken, I take issue with the punishment which seems like a "slap on the wrist".
The fine is not, in my opinion, adequate enough a deterrent to Express fans or fans of other teams for that matter not to engage in hooliganism. Apart from the amount being minimal, the action punishes Express "the football club", and not the actual perpetrators of the violence. Hooligans now know they can be unruly and get away scot free.
The Super League authorities with the police should have made attempts to isolate the ringleaders of the hooliganism and brought them to book. There are known, vocal supporters of Express who were at the match and they could have been the point at which investigations began. Alternatively, a blanket ban on all spectators to Express FC games could have been effected. This would have hit at the hearts of bona fide Express fans depriving them of watching their team and through them some form of 'self regulation' would be initiated, within their own ranks, to ensure that the same does not happen again in future.
Globally, hooliganism in football reached alarming proportions, prompting football administrators and even national governments in some countries to act decisively by instituting stadium bans for known hooligans, heavy fines and having teams play in empty stadia. Such action has brought sanity to the game and indeed cases of hooliganism are on the decrease.
In Uganda, we have previously seen incidences of spectators taking matters into their own hands, literally, attacking match officials and players and vandalising property. This vice needs to be stamped out.
Given the fact that the local police force is sometimes overburdened and therefore unable to provide enough security or mount thorough investigations into such cases, the onus is on the League, football teams and fans to work together to weed out the bad elements bent on ruining the game. It can be done and to prove it, all you had to do was witness how SC Villa fans reacted in the aftermath of the violence, restraining one another and encouraging each other not to retaliate.
By all accounts the new look Super League administration has made a good start. Action has to be therefore taken on hooligans before things escalate further, resulting in serious injury or even loss of lives.
There are many football fans who would love to pack the local stadia, but as long as scenes like the one at Wankulukuku continue to occur, local football will fail to attract the huge following that it so craves.
Genuine fans do not want to see the game continually brought into disrepute. Let us name and shame those criminal elements who want to hijack the beautiful game and come down harder on them to show that hooliganism will not be tolerated.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:01 pm
KAA Gent - SK Lokeren - 23/01/2011
Source: mail (thanks to the sender)
A free fight was planned 40 vs 40 but when both sides arrived on the scene, police was there.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:09 pm
Police need help tracing Boro fan after flare trouble - 25/01/2011
IMAGES of Boro fans holding lighted flares during a cup tie have been released as police continue to look for the culprits.
Staffordshire officers are investigating how a number of the dangerous red flares came to be set off during the 4th round FA Cup tie against Burton Albion on January 8.
And, as part of the ongoing inquiry, they have now released these new images of a young man holding a lighted flare on the terraces.
Five football fans were arrested at the game, which saw Boro crash out of the competition in humiliating circumstances against the League Two side.
Of them, two Tesside men, aged 16 and 20, and a 38-year-old man from Maidstone, Kent, are currently on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of discharging flares.
The other two men detained were a 23-year-old from Middlesbrough, who was later cautioned for going on to the pitch, and a 25-year-old from Redcar, was given a fixed penalty notice for being drunk and disorderly.
As previously reported, three of the arrests came after red flares were set off when fans celebrated Gary O’Neil’s opener for Boro during the team’s eventual 2-1 defeat at the Pirelli Stadium.
A smoke canister was also set-off and thrown on to the pitch, landing near to Burton keeper Adam Legzdins.
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Subject: Re: Season 10/11 - January Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:50 am
Stockport County - Lincoln City - 22/01/2010
Source : thisislincolnshire.co.uk
Football 'fan' injured in pub brawl and another arrested at Imps away match
POLICE have revealed the extent of disorder at Lincoln City's visit to Stockport County.
Two arrests were made, while six people were ejected from Edgeley Park in Stockport.
Police say one of the men arrested for a public order offence on Saturday was from Lincoln.
Police say a group of 12 to 15 Imps "supporters" were also involved in a pub brawl with a group from Stockport during the game.
Lincolnshire Police football intelligence officer PC Andy Pearson said: "During the disorder a number of weapons – chairs, bottles, glasses – were used.
"A man from Lincoln received a head injury believed to have been caused by a glass. At the fixture in Lincoln in October last year there was disorder in Lincoln High Street before the game. Post-match there were no further incidents."
A big police presence could be seen around the ground before kick-off over the weekend with officers patrolling on horses.
As reported in the Echo, Lincolnshire Police had to defend its tactics for monitoring Stockport fans drinking in a Saxilby pub last October.
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