Season 13/14 - August

Russia : Ural Yekaterinburg - Amkar Perm - 17/08/2013

Source : http://en.ria.ru

72 Football Fans Detained in Urals City After Brawl

Six dozen football fans rooting for rival teams in the Urals Mountains were detained Saturday after a brawl, police said.

The brawl took place before the match between Ural Yekaterinburg and Amkar Perm in the city of Yekaterinburg, police said. The regional police spokesman told RIA Novosti that the detained fans may be “disqualified” from attending future matches of the team they root for.

Brazil : Santos FC - Vasco de Gama - 17/08/2013

Source : http://www.supervasco.com

After 31 minutes of play police intervened in the terraces after clashes which opposed supporters.

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FC Sochaux - Olympique lyonnais - 17/08/2013

Source : http://www.estrepublicain.fr

A few minutes after the beginning of the game, some Lyon supporters tried to leave their stand so French CRS intervened to calm them down but they tried to open a gate and forcing thei way so fights followed and one CRS was blocked against a wall a was wounded.
Some Lyon fans were identified by photos.

Ternana - AS Roma - Friendly game - 17/08/2013

Source : http://tuttoggi.info

A fight broke out near a small pub Leopardi street, close to the Libero Liberati stadium, opposing supporters from both sides.
About one hundred Roma fans attacked a dozen of Ternana ones.
Two locals were slightly wounded said police who intervened.


Translation Underground Fans

Palermo - Hellas Verona - Cup - 17/08/2013

Source : http://www.mediagol.it

Fights broke out before this cup game. Local tifosi have attacked with rocks and firecrackers a bus full with Verona supporters.
These last ones went out of their bus to confront locals so police intervened.

Translation Underground Fans

Poland : KS Łomianki - Polonia Warsaw - 17/08/2013

Source : http://www.thesun.ie

Legia hooligans were present for this 4th division game to confront their Polonia arch rivals.

Translation Underground Fans

Serbia : Radnički Niš - Partizan Beograd - 17/08/2013

Source : http://www.naslovi.net

Riots erupted at the beginning of secondhalf when policemen tried to arrest one Grobari member. Seats were ripped off and thrown in direction of police.

Translation Underground Fans

GKS Bełchatów - Górnik Zabrze - Cup - 17/08/2013

Source : http://ekstraklasa.net

Fights opposed hooligans in the terraces.

Mexico : Pachuca CF - Club América - 18/08/2013

Source : http://www.laaficion.com

Riots erupted in the south terrace of Miguel Hidalgo stadium, opposing Amercia supporters to police forces.
Fans started to threw bottles and ice cubes in the pitch so the referee stopped the game for a few minutes.
Police intervened with truncheons.
Riots took place for 15 minutes.

Translation Underground Fans

Serbia : Javor Ivanjica - Red Star Beograd - 11/08/2013

Source : http://www.alo.rs

After 35 minutes of play, the Red Star goalkeeper, Boban Bajovic, went out of the pitch to help a supporter who was arrested.
Bajkovic said the man went into the pitch to give him the ball quickly but he was attacked by policemen and lied in the floor.

Ukraine : Sevastopol - Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - 17/08/2013

Source : http://www.vz.ru

Severe troubles marred this game.
After 55 minutes of play, Sevastopol supporters thrown dozens of firecrackers and seats in direction of the pitch.
One Dnepr player, Nikola Kalinic, was wounded.
A local player, Mariuz Lewandowski tried to calm his supporters down when the referee sent players to their changing rooms.
The idea of Sevastopol supporters was to show they were angry because their trainer left the team for the russian team, FC Krasnodar.
Five minutes later the game restarted.

Translation Underground Fans

Belgium : Cité Sport - RFC Liégeois - 18/08/2013

Source : http://www.dhnet.be

The game was stopped fifteen minutes before the end by the referee, Lionel Dams, who thought he was unsafed.
Liège supporters entered the pitch and the referre and one linesman were pelted with missiles.
Police intervened.

England : Police accused of issuing too many football banning orders - 19/08/2013

Source : http://www.lawontheweb.co.uk

The police have been accused of hitting innocent football fans with orders banning them from attending games.

Researchers looking into football banning orders, which can be used to ban football supporters from attending football matches, suggested that police may be issuing more bans than is necessary due to financial incentives and pressure from higher powers.

Police forces receive extra funding from Home Office when applying for banning orders – funding they do not receive for criminal convictions.

"I am concerned by the possibility of there being indirect financial incentives for football intelligence officers to pursue banning orders," said Melanie Cooke from RFB Legal. "This may explain why some applications I've seen are barely worth the paper they're written on."

Most recent Home Office figures showed that there were 2,750 fans serving banning order in England and Wales in November 2012. Figures for Merseyside, Cleveland and South Wales police showed that of 184 civil banning order applications made between 2002 and 2012, 165 resulted in bans.

Researchers also said that bans were being issued on spurious grounds due to fans not knowing their own legal rights. Amanda Jacks from the Football Supporters Federation cited other reasons that football supporters might be receiving banning orders that they did not deserve.

"I have sat through cases when it has been clear the magistrates or district judges are not aware of the standard of proof they should be applying," she said. "Once or twice I've been left with the impression the bench think, 'ah, football hooligan, must be guilty' before the defence has even spoken.

"Fans may be under surveillance and evidence used as to their behaviour that is up to 10 years old. Data is freely shared between clubs and police, and invariably the fan will be unaware that such information is being retained and therefore not able to challenge it.

"Evidence may include being ejected from a stadium for breaking ground regulations or gesturing and shouting to opposing fans – something which isn't necessarily a genuine threat and may be little more than bravado."

Matt Hopkins, criminology lecturer from the University of Leicester, added that police feared that they would lose their jobs if the UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) thought that they hadn’t issued enough banning orders over the course of a year.

England : Hooligan jailed for arranging violence between West Ham and Millwall supporters - 19/08/2013

Source : http://www.dailymail.co.uk



A football hooligan who organised a clash between Millwall and West Ham fans on the day of an FA Cup match has been jailed for 12 months.
Shaun Sheridan, a member of West Ham's notorious 'Inter City Firm', plotted mass violence in a series of text messages to his rivals.
Sheridan, 43, targeted the third round tie match between Dagenham and Redbridge and Millwall in the belief that there would be fewer police.
But his plan was thwarted after officers turned out in force armed with camcorders to film them gathering at a nearby pub.
Sheridan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit violent disorder at the Old Bailey last month.
Judge Anthony Morris QC told him: 'This case is about organised football hooliganism. You were helping to organise a large number of West Ham supporters to go to Dagenham to fight Millwall supporters.
'Organised football hooliganism is about taking pride in that violence. It is also about the subverting of public order.
'The planning of such violence brings shame upon clubs and the game of football and discourages bona fide supporters from attending matches and bringing their children to them.
'Such behaviour has to be met with severe sentences.'
Sheridan originally stood trial at the Old Bailey alongside the former owner of Grays Athletic Andy Swallow, 53, Shane Flexon, 26, and Millwall fan Aidan Andrews, 41.
Swallow, Andrews and Flexon were cleared of conspiracy to commit violent disorder after the case collapsed. Flexon admitted using threatening and abusive words or behaviour on the day of the match and was sentenced to a 12 month community order with 120 hours' unpaid work.
The prosecution had claimed the group tried to arrange a brawl in Dagenham and Redbridge for the third round FA Cup tie on January 7 last year.
Fans gathered at the Eastbrook pub and there were minor scuffles at the bar and near to the ground.
Swallow, a record producer who has handled acts like Craig David, Disclosure and Miss Dynamite, insisted he had been in the bar co-incidentally and had left the match to see Grays play.
When he was arrested police found a photograph of a group of men in front of a large banner reading 'ICF 30 years undefeated' - referring to the Inter City Firm. Sheridan also featured on a photograph on his own phone clenching his fist in front of a similar banner.
The Inter City Firm - so called because they used Inter City trains to travel to and from matches - became notorious for hooliganism in the 70s and 80s.
In recent years it has become rarer for violence to take place at football grounds because of police tactics and intelligence.
Prosecutor James Lofthouse said: 'It is commonplace for the leaders of rival groups to communicate before games to try and arrange a venue for a fight.'
Police found 150 text messages relating to the plot on Sheridan's phone after his arrest. The day before the match Sheridan texted his friends to say: 'They are defo coming'.
Flexon replied: 'Yeah, cheeky c****, lol', while Swallow messaged: 'So what? So are we.'
After the match he texted Andrews to say: 'The mighty Millwall got run - at least you showed. Top boy.'
Sheridan later messaged his friends: 'Delete all, I'm about to get nicked.'
Swallow, Andrews and Sheridan had all denied conspiring to commit violent disorder. Both Sheridan and Flexon were handed football banning orders while Sheridan is prohibited from going within a mile of any match featuring West Ham and Millwall for seven years, while Flexon is banned for five years.


Shaun Sheridan, a member of West Ham's notorious 'Inter City Firm'

Poland : Beach battle in Gdynia - 18/08/2013

Source : http://sz-n.com + http://www.stylkibica.net

According to the police monitoring cameras, it was Mexican sailors who provoked the ‘fight on the beach’ with the fans of the Polish football team, Ruch Chorzów, on Sunday, 18 August, reports Polish radio station, RMF FM.

According to the radio station reporter:

“Video film makes it possible to reconstruct the events on the beach. It so happened that Mexican sailors started to make unwelcome advances to women, and insulted football fans lying on the beach. After a few minutes, one (of the fans) decided he could not tolerate it any longer and pushed one of the Mexicans. It was then that the fight began. According to our understanding, the foreigners were very aggressive, and used broken bottles as weapons.”

Russia : Girls Free Fight - 03/08/2013

Source : Mail

CSKA vs Spartak Girls

Czech Republic : Viktoria Plzen - Sparta Prague - 17/08/2013

Source : http://sport.aktualne.centrum.cz

Troubles errupted Inside the stadium between Sparta fans and security.

Translation Underground Fans

Juventus - SS Lazio - Super Cup - 18/08/2013

Source : http://www.gazzettadelsud.it

Racism rears head before season start

Racism has reared its head in Italian soccer even before the start of the Serie A season this weekend - and despite vows to stamp it out after a string of high-profile incidents last year. Sections of the Lazio following directed monkey chants at Juventus's black players during the Roman team's 4-0 loss to the Serie A champions in the Italian Super Cup at the Olympic Stadium Sunday night.

Italy : Lazio's Curva Nord shut for racist chanting - 19/08/2013

Source : http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com

A section of Lazio's stadium will be closed for one match as punishment for racist chanting during Sunday's 4-0 defeat to Juventus in the Italian Supercup.

Italian sporting authorities announced Monday their decision to close Lazio's Curva Nord after fans from the section "directed shouts and chants of a racially discriminative nature towards three players of the opposing team in the 16th and 28th minutes of the first half and continuously in the 20th and 43rd minutes of the second half.''

Juventus players Paul Pogba, Kwadwo Asamoah and Angelo Ogbonna were all targeted by abuse during the match, prompting a warning to be issued over the stadium loudspeaker.

Ukraine : Shakhtar Donetsk - Metalurg Zaporizhya - 18/08/2013

Source : Mail

Hungary : Ferencváros TC - MTK Budapest - 17/08/2013

Source : http://www.jpost.com

Fans of Ferencvaros football team hold up sign commemorating recently deceased war crimes suspect László Csatáry.



Significant segments of Hungarian society are in denial of complicity in war crimes, a well known Nazi hunter said Monday. The statement was in response to fans of Hungary’s Ferencvaros football team holding up a sign commemorating alleged war criminal László Csatáry during a match on Saturday.

“If anyone needed any proof why it was important to prosecute Csatáry for his crimes during the Holocaust in a Hungarian court, the Ferencvaros fans provided it this past Saturday,” Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office told The Jerusalem Post.

Csatáry died earlier this month while awaiting trial for torturing Jews and deporting thousands of them to their deaths during World War II. A former police commander of the Kassa internment camp in Slovakia, he was sentenced to death in absentia for his crimes in 1948 by a Czechoslovakian court after he fled to Canada.

He was deported back to Hungary in 1997 and arrested last year in Budapest, the capital, after the Sun daily newspaper in London published his picture and whereabouts.

The sign, which read “In memoriam László Csatáry,” was flown during the annual bout between Ferencvaros and MTK Budapest FC, a team popularly identified as Jewish due to its historic ties to members of the Hungarian Jewish community.

According to Zuroff, Saturday’s game marked the third year in a row in which an anti- Semitic banner was flown at a match between the two clubs.

It happens “every time they face MTK,” he said.

“The year before, the banner said ‘Efraim Zuroff, your mother is a whore’” and in 2011 “they commemorated a famous blood libel.”

The Hungarian Football Federation (MLSZ), he accused, “has never said a word to stop them or force them to take them down and this is a real outrage.”

The MLSZ posted a statement on its website condemning the banner on Sunday, stating that such a message “has no place” at a sporting event.

The Mazsihisz, an organization representing the Jewish community of Hungary, has not yet responded to the incident due to a long weekend, Robert Frolich, Rabbi of Budapest’s Great Synagogue, told the Post.

Anti-Semitism is a grave concern in Hungary, which has one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe and is facing a rapid rise in the fortunes of the far right.

Jobbik, which has accused Israelis of “buying” up Hungarian land and which has called for the compilation of a list of Jews serving in government due to concerns over disloyalty, is the country’s third-largest party.

Schalke 04 - PAOK Salonique - 21/08/2013

Source : TV Live



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Source : http://macedoniaonline.eu + http://waz.m.derwesten.de

Schalke fans fight with German Police over Macedonian flag



Schalke 04 faced off against Greek PAOK in a Champions league match. Fighting ocurred between Schalke 04 fans UGE and German police when the Macedonian flag was displayed. Police attempted to take the flag, however UGE fought back and kept it. Schalke 04's UGE and FC Vardar fans "Komiti" have formed a brotherhood of sorts. Komiti fans have already attended some of Schalke 04 Bundesliga matches.

England : Walsall football fans on trial after Shrewsbury brawl - 13/08/2013

Source : http://www.expressandstar.com

Six football fans from the Black Country have admitted violent disorder following a brawl ahead of a match in the Midlands.

The Walsall Football Club supporters were arrested after a fight broke out in Shrewsbury town centre, ahead of a derby match between Shrewsbury Town and Walsall on October 14 last year.

Rival groups linked with the two clubs were involved in the unrest, in which three police officers were injured as they tried to quell the trouble.

Last week, 16 Shrewsbury fans, including four teenagers, admitted being part of the brawl. And yesterday the Walsall supporters pleaded guilty to violent disorder at Shrewsbury Crown Court.

Those appearing were: Arron Arrowsmith, 34, of Harden Road, Michael Joseph Edwards, 56, of Roebuck Road, Neil Robinson, 51, of Stephenson Avenue, James Ross, 27, of Windrush Close, Dean John Stone, 32, of Burgh Way and Mark Fredrick Walters, 27, of Alumwell Road.

James Ross also pleaded guilty to possession of class A drug cocaine.

Another three men denied the charge, Stephen Michael Leonard, 28, of Roebuck Road, Stephen Michael Leonard, 50, of Kent Street and Ben Michael Edwards, 26, of Roebuck Road. A 10th man, Samuel Bryan, of Leamore Lane in Walsall, was absent from the hearing due to health problems.

Judge Peter Barrie told those who pleaded not guilty to return to the same court for a trial on a date to be set. They will be tried separately to two Shrewsbury men who have denied charges relating to the same incident.

The six who admitted the violence will be sentenced on September 18.

Mexican-Polish fight in Gdynia: Two charged over attack - 20/08/2013

Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk

Polish police have charged two people with assault after a group of Mexican sailors were involved in a brawl with Polish football fans on Sunday.

Dozens of fans attacked the Mexican navy cadets on a beach in the town of Gdynia, on the Baltic Sea coast.

Some accounts said the fans of the Ruch Chorzow team shouted racial abuse as they charged at the sailors, injuring 17 of them.

However the Polish fans blamed the Mexicans for starting the fight.

Mexico has summoned the Polish ambassador in the wake of the incident.

"Three Poles were detained. Two of them were charged. They face a sentence of five years in prison for assault," local police spokesman Michal Sienkiewicz told the AFP news agency.

He said about 40 people in total were involved in the brawl. "It's still not possible to say who started it," he added.

The Ruch Chorzow fans association said fans had tried to help a woman who had been hit in the face by one of the sailors.

However, Polish Radio quoted prosecutor Michal Niesiolowski as blaming the Poles for the violence.

"At the current level [of investigation], it has been established that the attackers were Polish citizens, and the injured party were Mexicans," he said.

Two Mexican sailors were taken to hospital with serious injuries, though officials said they were now out of danger.

Officials in Mexico City said they had asked the Polish foreign ministry "for its intervention in order to ensure that authorities find those responsible for the deplorable incident and punish those guilty".

The Mexican foreign ministry said in a statement that 57 cadets and officers from the Cuauhtemoc training ship had been taking a break on the beach when they had been assaulted by some 300 "alleged fans of a football team".

Schalke angry over heavy-handed police tactics on fans - 22/08/2013

Source : http://www.globaltimes.cn

Policemen and Schalke 04 fans clash during the European Champions League playoff first-leg match between Germany's Schalke 04 and Greece's PAOK in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on Wednesday.

German football club Schalke 04 accused police of being ­unnecessarily tough with their fans after moving in to remove a controversial banner during their 1-1 draw against Greece's PAOK in their Champions League playoff tie on Wednesday.

Riot police, using ­pepper spray and rubber batons, ­briefly moved into the stands to ­remove a Macedonian ­banner unfurled by the home ­supporters that had angered the visiting fans, with Greece in a long-standing name dispute with its northern neighbor.

"The action by the police was neither agreed with club officials nor is there anyway it would have been requested or approved," a club statement said Thursday on its website.

"This deployment was ­completely disproportionate. We cannot approve any of this, nor do we have any under­standing for it," Schalke board member Peter Peters said in the statement.

"We therefore believe it should be discussed as a ­matter of urgency. It is imperative that this incident be thoroughly ­investigated."

Schalke said despite re­peated efforts to have the fans remove it, the banner ­remained, further angering the Greek supporters.

"Fans in the north ­tribune had unfurled a banner of 'Komiti Skopje,' the ultras of [Macedonian club] Vardar Skopje who are friends of the Schalke ultras," the club said.

The incident in the second half lasted only a few ­minutes and was barely noticed by ­players and coaches of the two teams.