Season 11/12 - August

Italy: Catania - Milazzo – Friendly game - 21/08/2011

Source : Ansa.it

Nine Catania ultras were arrested by police in their stand because they were all under stadium bans

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Genoa - Nocerina - Cup - 20/08/2011

Source : Salernonotizie.it

As they came back from a cup game played in Genoa, about a hundred of Nocerina supporters have stolen many things in a shop on the highway between Caserta and Salerno.
Police intervened and will check CCTV.

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Italy: Nardò - Gallipoli – Friendly game - 22/08/2011

Source : Quotidianodipuglia.it

Severe fights broke out during and after the game.
Two home-made bombs were threw in the pitch and 3 minutes before the end of the game, Nardo ultras tried to reach their counter-parts from Gallipoli. Police intervened but was pelted with rocks.
Some people were discovered by CCTV.

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Real Sporting de Gijón vs Genoa : arrests - 24/08/2011

Source : Que.es

After violent brawl with opposed supporters from both teams (13th of August), Gijon police have arrested 3 other supporters, for a total of 27 : 12 from Genoa and 15 Sporting ones.
These 3 all belong to the Ultraboys group.

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Incidents 13/08/2011

Video : http://www.abc.es/20110827/deportes-futbol/abci-comercio-violencia-ultra-201108270958.html

Ecuador: El Nacional - Liga de Quito - 21/08/2011

Source : Eluniverso.com + local press

Quito supporters provoked troubles at the Olimpico Atahualpa stadium, fronted police.
Supporters threw missiles at police, like iron bars and many other things.
Brawl took place for 15 minutes and started when local supporters exposed a banner stolen to Quito ones.
The club was sentenced with a fee of 800 $.

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Croatia: Osijek - Dinamo Zagreb - 20/08/2011

Source : Index.hr

Osijek supporters provoked severe troubles before and after the game.
Before the game the escort of supporters used detonators and firecrackers.
Police and firemen needed to intervene.
Later police used pepper sprays against these troublemakers.

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Rennes – Red Star Beograd - 25/08/2011

Source : Foot365 + Reuters

Live 51st minute of playing : The game is stopped because serbian supporters threw missiles in direction of Rennes players who were training themselves near the pitch.

AS Roma - Slovan Bratislava - 26/08/2011

Source : Lanazione.it + Arezzonotizie.it

At 12am, about 50 Bratislava ultras were arrested for 12 hours after they have stolen many things in a shop in Badia al Pino (Tuscany) where they stopped on their way to Rome. After given punches to people they stolen many many things, especially alcohol.
Masked with scarves ultras entered the shop singing songs promoting hooliganism and against Jews and with knives, batons, firecrackers etc.
Twelve police squads from Arezzo needed to intervene.
Four supporters were arrested and received a stadium ban in Italy for a period of 5 years.
All the 42 others received bans for 3 years.

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Source : Isport.blesk.cz

A Slovan was stabbed in Rome during a fight with Roma ultras.

Italy: Ancona - Sambenedettese - 22/08/2011

Source : Il Resto del Carlino

Troubles erupted before the game, when a hundred of local ultras tried to reach Sambe ultras escort.
One policeman was wounded by a rock.
After the game Ancona ultras threw rocks in direction of the train full with Samb rivals.
Police have arrested 2 locals.

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TSG 1899 Hoffenheim - Werder Bremen - 27/08/2011

Source : AFP + 1899aktuell.d

Riots broke out at half-time in the away stand, opposing supporters to local stewards.
After several minutes police intervened.

Germany : FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt - SV Darmstadt 98 - 27/08/2011

Source : MDR.de + Ostthüringer Zeitung

At half-time, police intervened to separate supporters from both teams.
Darmstadt ones provoked other troubles later, with police and also caused damages.
Fifty-five people were wounded, including 39 policemen and one supporter was arrested.

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Poland: Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała - Korona Kielce - 27/08/2011

Source : Korona Kielce website

Bosnia: Zheljeznichar - Zrinjski - 24/08/2011

Source: index.hr

After Zrinjski fans chanted offensive songs police intervened to clear the terrace with Zrinjski fans.

Dinamo Bucharest - FC Vorskla Poltava - 25/08/2011

Source : Press

Dinamo Bucharest supporters try to break a fence in order to clash with riot police.

Greece: Arrests, injuries in brawl at football supporters' club - 29/08/2011

Source : Ekathimerini.com + Sportdog.gr

Four people were arrested and three injured following a clash outside a Panathinaikos supporters’ club in Petralona, southern Athens late on Monday.

About 100 Olympiakos fans, some armed with knives and other weapons, attacked the fan club.

Two of the three people injured remained in the hospital yesterday.

The four people arrested are in their 20s and 30s.

Police said that they are seeking more suspects.

It was not clear what triggered the attack, but relations between the supporters of the rival teams have always been antagonistic.

Brazil: Palmeiras – Corinthians - 28/08/2011

Source : Reuters

Two fans shot in fighting before Brazil derby

Two supporters of Brazil club Palmeiras suffered gunshot wounds and were taken to hospital on Sunday in fighting between fans and police that marred the team's 2-1 victory over Corinthians in a Sao Paulo derby.
"Two fans of a supporters' organisation who came from the city of Sao Paulo were shot," an officer of the Sao Paulo state police said after the incident in the city of Prudente where the match was played at a neutral ground.
"We still don't know who did the shooting, but we have information there were armed Palmeiras fans and we're still gathering information," he told the Sportv channel.
Police had to fire rubber bullets to keep the situation from escalating.

Switzerland: FC Sion - Servette FC - 28/08/2011

Source : Genevalunch.com

Rubber bullets used after hooligans set fire to field, bash toilets

Servette’s victory was marred, however, by hooligans, who were kept in check, but with difficulty, by 180 police officers monitoring the Sion event, including 30 from Geneva.

Police initially intercepted buses with supporters from Geneva heading for Sion and checked them before escorting them directly to the Tourbillon stadium in Sion, to avoid confrontations between groups of supporters.

Servette supporters then broke through the security system to avoid checks at the entrance and once inside caused considerable damage, breaking doors and WCs. A young woman was hospitalized after being seriously cut in the hand.

Police remained on alert during the match, given that 20 or so supporters who have been banned from Swiss stadiums were spotted in the area. Once the match was over “clans” from the two groups of supporters, which had “copiously insulted each other” during the match, say police, tried to clash, with Sion fans rushing the other groups, but police kept them apart, using rubber bullets and pepper sprays.

Two police officers were checked at the hospital after being hit by rocks. Four FC Sion supporters were arrested, ages 33, 30, 28 and 19.


Police check Servette supporters' buses en route to Sion for football match.

Scotland: Queen's Park - Berwick Rangers - 27/08/2011

Source : Dailyrecord.co.uk

Berwick Rangers fans hit out at police and match stewards after being told to take down flag of St George at away games

FANS of the only English side to play in the Scottish Football League claim they are being banned from flying the St George's cross north of the border.
Supporters of Berwick Rangers say over-zealous police and stewards are stopping them from waving their national colours at away matches in case it provokes Scottish crowds.
Die-hard fans of the club, nicknamed the Wee Rangers, are furious at the unofficial crackdown.
Writer Tom Maxwell, who has published an account of the club's history, branded the move "ludicrous".
He said: "There have been occasions where Berwick fans have been told to take the St George's Cross down at away grounds on the basis that it might incite trouble.
"It seems particularly ridiculous when no Scottish fans get told to take down the Saltire when they come to Berwick.
"I doubt that Cardiff, Swansea or Wrexham fans get told to take down Welsh flags at English grounds. It is ludicrous."
Supporter Martin McCleary, who has only missed three Berwick matches in six seasons, claimed overzealous police and stewards intervened all the time.
He said: "We are always being asked to take down the England flag. It's not like we are displaying a swastika."
Fans of the club, based less than three miles south of the border, have vowed to continue taking flags with three lions and the cross of St George to away fixtures.
Another supporter, Nick Vagg, from Glasgow, believes fellow fans should have the right to show their affiliation with England.
The Scotland supporter and SNP voter, who wears a kilt in the black and gold club colours to matches, said: "When we point out the home support have a Scottish flag, the police or stewards just say, 'Aye, but they're a Scottish team.'
"When we say, 'Yeah, but we're an English team,' they respond, 'Aye, but you're in the Scottish league so you're causing trouble'. It smacks of double standards."
The club has fans from both sides of the border.
A Berwick Rangers spokesman said: "We do not allow flags which could be seen as sectarian or abusive, but we have no problem at all with the national flags of both England and Scotland."
Stranraer FC, who compete with Berwick Rangers in the Scottish Third Division, said tensions between both sets of fans had led to England flags being taken down.
Strathclyde Police, who police Berwick's away games with Clyde and Queen's Park, said it advised its officers to remove any flags they deem to be "provocative".

British Cops to Guard Bulgaria-England Clash in Sofia - 31/08/2011

Source : Novinite.com

Bulgarian police officers will be assisted by their British counterparts at the Euro 2012 qualifier between England and Bulgaria on Friday, it has been announced.

"We have established joint measures to prevent hooliganism on the margins of the Bulgaria-England match" on Friday, Biser Ivanov, head of the police unit dealing with football hooligans, has told the Bulgarian National Radio, as cited by The Times.

Even though the British police officers will not have powers to arrest offenders themselves, they are expected to cooperate. A total of 12 "spotters," tasked with pinpointing known hooligans in a crowd, will travel to Bulgaria for Friday's game.

Some 3000 British fans are expected to attend the clash, which is to take place at Sofia's Vasil Levski stadium.

It was recently announced that Bulgaria's popular southern Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach demands British police officers to patrol it during the next tourist season. The British police officers' presence would create some respect in the British tourists who often create trouble, the chair of the Sunny Beach hotel owners' union explained.

UK: Tales of terrace warfare told in hooligans book - 29/08/2011

Source : The Bolton News

THE violent world of Bolton’s football hooligans has been exposed in a controversial new book.

Walking Down The Manny Road tells the story of Bolton’s various “firms” or gangs, uniting under the name of The Cuckoo Boys, and their clashes with rival groups attached to other football clubs.

It also describes the hooligans’ links with the English Defence League and their presence at EDL rallies, including the protest in Bolton town centre in March last year.

The book is written by Doug Mitchell, who claims to have been a member of The Cuckoo Boys for 30 years.

He describes how mobs such as the Tonge Moor Stanley Boys, The Horwich Casuals, The Halliwell Cutters Crew and the Billy Whizz Fan Club united under The Cuckoo Boys banner.

A story in The Bolton Evening News, from May 19, 1990, is quoted in the opening pages, describing the hooligans as “Thugs who peddle terror in the name of Bolton Wanderers”.

Mr Mitchell moved to Bolton from Edinburgh when he was eight, and grew up in Farnworth.

He first found a taste for “recreational violence”, he says, when he took part in organised fights between schools — as a pupil at George Tomlinson’s he says he regularly fought with groups from St James’s and Harper Green.

The book charts hooliganism from several decades ago, right up to the present day While the book defends the EDL, claiming it is not a racist organisation, it also describes some of the hooligans who support the organisation as openly racist.

A spokesman for Bolton Wanderers said he had not heard of the book.

Bolton Wanderers Supporters Association secretary Christopher Peacock said: “Hooligan is a prehistoric and outdated phenomenon and anything that glorifies it should be considered with the same disdain as hooliganism itself.”

Russia: Rostov – Anzhi Mahalacska - 27/08/2011

Source : YouTube

Slovenia: Olimpija Ljubljana - Maribor - 28/08/2011

Source : Siol.net + RSI.si

330 seats were ripped off during the game, especially in the away stand where police took place.
Flares and firecrackers were also threwn in the pitch.
Locals also ripped off a hundred seats.

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Vidéo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZxqWK1QdaXs

St-Pauli II - 1. FC Magdeburg - 28/08/2011

Source : Mopo.de

Troubles erupted early this morning at 8am, in Uelzen, near Hamburg, opposing supporters coming from Hamburg and Magdeburg.
One policeman was slightly wounded.
It seems about fifty Magdeburg supporters were inside the same train as St Pauli ones.

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Bayer Leverkusen - Borussia Dortmund - 27/08/2011

Source : Radioleverkusen.de + rp-online.de

Troubles erupted at the end of the game,opposing both sides of supporters near the Stadioneck pub, where about 250 to 300 locals took place.
At this time, only a few policemen were there. Some were wounded by missiles, like bottles and rocks. Reinforcements were called and arrived so a brawl opposed police to Leverkusen supporters.
Some people said police used truncheons and pepper sprays against normal fans who were inside the pub, including children and women.
Several people were wounded.
Some people would like to go to Court, against policemen.

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Livorno - Sampdoria - 30/08/2011

Source : Fastweb.it

Two rival factions fronted after the game, in front of the sea.
One girl from Livorno was wounded at her head and transferred at hospital.
About 400 Sam supporters made the trip to Livorno, including some of them without tickets.

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