Season 13/14 - November

Uruguay : Nacional - Peñarol - 24/11/2013

Source : http://www.subrayado.com.uy

The game was stopped during 2nd half, for 11 minutes, because Penarol supporters thrown missiles.
Twenty of them were arrested.

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

Violence mars Uruguay derby as 20 fans are arrested and nine police officers left injured

Twenty football fans were arrested and nine police officers injured as fighting on the terraces marred the big Montevideo derby in which Penarol beat Nacional 3-2, Uruguayan media reported on Monday.
One officer suffered head injuries, lost teeth and had to be taken to the Police Hospital, others had cuts to arms and legs and another had a broken hand, the daily El Pais quoted the Interior ministry as saying.
The match was held up for 11 minutes and police confiscated more than 100 firecrackers. Penarol fans broke down barriers between the Amsterdam and Olimpica stands in an attempt to attack Nacional supporters. They also tore up seats and threw them towards rival fans.
When police stepped in to quell the fighting fans threw barriers at them.
The trouble began when Nacional supporters unfurled a banner they had stolen from Penarol fans in memory of Rodrigo Aguirre, a young fan shot dead in a clash of rival hooligans in 2011, according to Penarol vice-president Edgard Welker.
The “clasico”, Uruguay’s biggest match, has often been marred by violence off and on the pitch.

1.FC Magdeburg - Lok Leipzig - 23/11/2013

Source : http://www.Volksstimme.de

On their way to the stadium, supporters from both sides created troubles, throwing bottles and detonators.
Four Magdeburg fans and one from Leipzig stayed outside the stadium for security reasons.
During the game, supporters from both sides tried to confront but police intervened with pepper sprays but three of them were slightly wounded.
The game was also stopped several times because away fans used a lot ot firecrackers.


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Ukraine: free fight - 24/11/2013

Source : mail

24 CSKA Kiev (Army Legion + Praetorian Guard)
vs
Dynamo Brest No Nomments (15) + 9 Polish from Orleta Radzyn

2 minute fight and CSKA won

Russia: fight - 24/11/2013

Source : mail

Capitals + Instrument (Dynamo Moscow) meet Triumf + okruzheniye (Spartak Moscow) in underground, 30x25, 20sek. Dynamo win

Russia: free fight - 24/11/2013

Source : https://www.youtube.com

9vs9
Slavyanki (Spartak Moskva) vs. Provintsialki (Zenit)

Russia/Ukraine: free fight - 23/11/2013

Source : russian website

21 vs 21
Company (Rostov-na-Donu) + Unity (Rostov+Taganrog)
vs
MiD + P14 + Rovno (Dnepropetrovsk). 21x21.
5 min. Win Dnepr.

French government vows action against hooligans - 25/11/2013

Source : http://www.thelocal.fr

The problem hooliganism in French football reared its head again at the weekend with league chiefs and the government vowing to take action to stamp out the problem. Meanwhile on the pitch Lille kept pace with PSG at the top of the table.

Around 200 Saint-Etienne fans were evacuated from Nice's Allianz Riviera stadium on the Cote D'Azur on Sunday following crowd trouble, AFP's reporter on the scene said

The away fans had come under fire from sections of the home support, who had torn up seats and were throwing them at their rival supporters. Police formed a protective guard around the away fans before evacuating them from the stadium.

According to unconfirmed sources, the bus carrying Saint-Etienne's fans to the ground had been bombarded with stones as it arrived at the stadium.

Even so, the match between Nice and Saint-Etienne kicked off on time at 5pm local time (1600 GMT). But the images have shocked French football chiefs as well as the country's leading politicians.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls "condemned with the upmost severity" the violence which left nine supporters injured.

Valls added that the behaviour of these "radical" groups of fans showed that France "must not lower its guard and must fight tirelessly... against hooliganism".

Frédéric Thiriez , president of the French football league was harsher in his words: "Enough of these few morons who call themselves fans. They do not even realize they are ruining the image of football.

Thiriez said he would be calling for a meeting with government officials to look into the possibility of banning away supporters from matches.

That has already happened in certain high-risk fixtures, with Lyon supporters barred from attending their team's match at rivals St Etienne earlier this year. In recent years the PSG versus Marseille fixture has been subject to a ban on away fans.

Meanwhile on the pitch Pape N'Diaye Souare scored six minutes from time to keep Lille hanging onto Paris Saint-Germain's coat-tails with a 1-0 win over 10-man Toulouse on Sunday.

Lille trail the Ligue 1 leaders by four points following the champions' 3-0 win at Reims on Saturday.

The victory puts the pressure on Monaco, who travel to fellow newly-promoted side Nantes later on Sunday, as they now linger eight points off the pace.

The result extended Rene Girard's team's unbeaten run to nine games while Nigerian international goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has not conceded a goal in 855 minutes of action.

However, it was a largely unconvincing display from the northerners who struggled to create anything despite playing the final 34 minutes with a numerical advantage following Oscar Trejo's red card.

"The sending off totally changed the direction of the match," complained Toulouse coach Alain Casanova.

"When I see my player with three stitches it makes me think there surely must have been a foul beforehand.

"He was given his marching orders and I regret it because we were really causing them problems on the technical front. We found ourselves with ten with half an hour to go and they didn't have many chances."

Enyeama was required to save his side on three occasions from Ben Yedder, Issiaga Sylla and Adrien Regattin.

But Souare found space at the back post from Florent Balmont's cross from the right to head home and snatch the three points.

The Nigerian international goalkeeper admitted his side had luck on their side.

"I made great saves, are you sure?!" he said. "We were lucky because they had a player sent off while they had been playing very well up until that.

"I don't care about statistics. I don't play attention to 'clean sheets'. We've only played 14 matches and there's still a long way to go. Who knows, we could even win the championship. Nothing is impossible."

Matlock - FC United of Manchester- 23/11/2013

Source : Mail

Celtic fans make 200 complaints of Dutch police violence - 25/11/2013

Source : http://www.dutchnews.nl

Fans of football club Celtic have made some 200 complaints about police violence prior to the Scottish side’s match against Ajax earlier earlier this month, news agency ANP reports.

The club has now forwarded 25 of these complaints to Dutch lawyer Jeroen Soeteman who is assessing if there is enough evidence to take legal action against the officers concerned.

Celtic fans say the police used excessive force during disturbances in the centre of Amsterdam prior to the match. In total 44 people were arrested, including 28 Celtic supporters. Eight police officers were treated for injuries.

Last Thursday, five Celtic supporters were found guilty of attacking the police and sentenced to between one month and two months in jail. They are currently appealing against the sentences.

The complaints are unconnected to the fans who have been found guilty, news agency ANP said.

West Bromwich - Aston Villa - 25/11/2013

Source : http://www.expressandstar.com

Arrests as Villa fans pelted with missiles in pub before West Brom match

At around 6.30pm two men walked into the Rose Villa Tavern in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and started throwing a variety of missiles into the pub, which was filled with Aston Villa supporters.

Police were quickly on the scene in Vyse Street and two men were arrested on suspicion of affray minutes later.

Scott Walker, the pub's general manager, said: "Two young men walked into the pub and asked who the Villa fans were.

"We had a number of Villa supporters in at the time. They then started throwing objects at the fans, including bottles.

"Luckily we had police officers in the pub at the time who quickly stepped in."

Polish police demand stadium ban on football away team fans - 27/11/2013

Source : http://www.hindustantimes.com

Police in Poland appealed Wednesday to the country's football federation to ban away fans from stadiums in all top division matches this season, in a bid to curb hooliganism. "We have asked the organisers of the Polish Championship and the PZPN (Polish Football Federation) to examine the possibility of holding the remaining matches in the 2013/2014 season without the presence of away team supporters," police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski said.
In a letter to the head of the PZPN, chief of police Marek Dzialoszynski said the law had been broken 73 times during 136 top division matches played this season.

In about 60 cases police said supporters in the stands had thrown firecrackers and smoke grenades, and in other instances, fans trashed public transport trains and buses as they made their way to the stadiums.

Polish police said the cost of intervening in these cases during the first six months of the year was estimated at 800,000 euros ($1 million), a significant increase on previous years.

Twelve Ajax hooligans arrested - 26/11/2013

Source : http://www.nltimes.nl

Police arrested twelve men who misbehaved around Ajax matches. The defendants are charged with public violence.Some of the hooligans misbehaved on November 5 before the Celtics game. They attacked a group of Scottish fans in the center of Amsterdam.
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Others were involved in an incident on October 1st around Metro Station Van der Madeweg. A group of Ajax hooligans forcefully entered a subway wagon with supporters of AC Milan, with a lot of property damage as a result.
The suspects were identified on camera images, all being between 17 and 29 years old. They were arrested in places throughout the country, including Lisse, Ede, Medemblik, and Apeldoorn.
The investigation is ongoing, and the police do not rule out more arrests will follow.

England : The undercover football hooligan - 18/11/2013

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

As an undercover officer, PC James Bannon was meant to be securing the arrests of violent football fans. Instead, he almost became a hooligan himself

At 7pm on Friday April 3 1987, two novice undercover police officers left Brockley police station for a drive down the Old Kent Road in south London. These were grim miles of looming tower blocks, shuttered shops and graffitied trains clattering above looming arches. It was also the territory of Millwall Football Club and their hooligan firm the Bushwhackers. It was just gone 8pm when the two men entered one of the Bushwhackers’ favourite pubs, The Old Castle.
“It was an atmosphere I’d not experienced before,” remembers one of those policemen, James Bannon. “It was like a church.” That intense mood was thickened by the presence of individuals that he recognised from surveillance tapes as being highly dangerous. The 21-year-old Bannon felt conspicuous. “I looked about 10 and my partner Chris looked like a 30-year-old university graduate,” he says. “He didn’t like football particularly and was very bright and educated. I’m walking towards the bar thinking, 'Why’s nobody looking at me?’”
The first thing to go wrong did so almost immediately, when Chris (not his real name) ordered them both half-pints of lager. “I’m like, oh Jesus,” says Bannon. “He says, 'Well I’ve got to drive.’” Bannon went to the toilet. “A really weird thing happens to you when you do this. Your head starts to take in masses of information. I’m looking at what trainers they’re wearing, their trousers, who they’re talking to, what they’re drinking. Why’s he talking to him? Why’s he doing that? And when I leave the toilet, what do I see? Chris surrounded by Millwall.” They were aggressively asking Bannon’s partner what he was staring at.
“Everyone knows, the first time you go into any pub, particularly a Millwall pub, you don’t stare at anyone,” he says. “You keep your head down and your mouth shut. But Chris was a bit of a gawper. He had these thick glasses on.” It gave Bannon an idea. “I’m like, 'Of course he’s staring. Look at his glasses!’” The joke succeeded. There was laughter. Until Chris told them, “Well you better watch it because we’re f------ Millwall.” To test how “f------ Millwall” he really was, the drinkers began interrogating Chris on his knowledge of the team. The violence began when he passionately agreed with one drinker’s description of John Fashanu as a “lazy white c---” and thus revealed a basic ignorance of the famous black striker’s ethnicity.
“They just steamed in,” says Bannon. “I had cuts and scrapes, hurt my rib and all sorts. Chris had his nose and finger broken. And we were barred. First night out. A total, unmitigated disaster.”

This was the start of a police operation that was to last two years. It was launched when public and political outrage at football hooliganism was at its peak. The end of the Seventies had seen the emergence of the perception of hooliganism as a national problem, with Millwall’s Bushwhackers frequently involved in some of the most egregious scenes. A 1978 riot had begun at Millwall’s ground, The Den, and spread into the surrounding streets. Scores of innocent people had been injured. A 1982 match against Slough Town had ended in so much mayhem that Millwall chairman Alan Thorne had threatened to close the club.
The Bushwhackers struck again in 1985. Millwall’s FA Cup quarter-final match against Luton Town had to be temporarily halted after just 14 minutes due to violence. At the end of the match, Millwall fans invaded the pitch and in the ensuing riot 81 people were injured, including 31 police officers. One journalist who witnessed the event described scenes of “open bloody warfare”. The violence that day was so bad that Margaret Thatcher formed a “war cabinet” to tackle the problem. A year later, an interim report from the Popplewell Inquiry said that “football may not be able to continue in its present form much longer” unless something was done. One of those things turned out to be the undercover investigation that Bannon was involved with. He’s only now revealed the full terrifying account of what happened in his recently published memoir, Running with the Firm, and in an acclaimed one-man stage show.

Bannon, 48, asks to meet at a café around the corner from the now-empty Brockley police station, above which his small team was based in its earliest weeks. With its artisan flapjacks, this middle-class establishment is not the sort of place that existed when he patrolled the streets in the mid-Eighties. Bannon, it’s easy to tell, is of the old pre-gentrification order. It’s in his barrelling shoulders and his face, which looks as if it’s had years of sorry wisdom beaten into it. But, more than that, it’s in his presence. A palpable zone of power surrounds him.
It’s this, it seems, that enabled him to become so successful. “To be a good undercover policeman,” he says, “you need to have many things, including a massive ego. Unquenchable arrogance.” Bannon’s father was a policeman. Because of this, he had to work extra hard to win the trust of his mates in his estate in the London suburb of Belvedere. “Where I lived, everyone stole cars,” he says. “It was just part of growing up.” Had things turned out differently, might he have become a criminal? “It’s just a case of turning left or right, isn’t it?” he says.
Having been expelled from school for fighting, Bannon found work in the civil service, transferring magazines to microfiche. He hated it. A friend who’d joined the police cadets told him how exciting it was. “I thought, 'Well, the old man’s Old Bill. I might have a chance of getting in.’” He was 16.

By the time he was 21, Bannon had been singled out as a rising star. At a meeting at Scotland Yard, in March 1987, he was offered the chance to work on a covert operation looking at football hooligans that was planned to last a maximum of six months. He and Chris were to pretend to be painters and decorators.
But first, they had to repair the damage of the initial disaster in The Old Castle. Their opportunity came the next day, when they were travelling to a game at Leeds. “We were in Euston station eating our breakfast. Then for the first time I hear the Millwall anthem – 'No One Likes Us, We Don’t Care’.” Noticing, in the crowd, the same people who’d beaten them up, Bannon approached the men, offering his hand and no hard feelings. He apologised for his “colour blind” friend. It worked.
But total infiltration wasn’t as simple as a handshake. Over the coming months, the two men had to prove their worth. Bannon won the trust of several key individuals by joining them in planned violence in pubs and backstreets. Chris accused his partner of enjoying his role too much.
“Was I a football hooligan?” Bannon asks of himself. “Yes. But I never lost sight of the fact that it was a job. There were parts of it where I laughed more than I’ve ever laughed before. I met people I’d quite happily have had as lifetime friends. But it was a job. You create a role and you live that role – to a point.” But where, exactly, is that point? If he’s drinking with thugs, singing their songs and fighting in the streets with them, how is he not one of them? “If I pick a bat up and run at a load of West Ham fans, there’s no justification in that,” he says. “But if I’m with a group of Millwall fans and a West Ham fan is running at me with a bat, I’m totally within my rights to hit him. That’s the difference.”
Does he maintain he never stepped over that line? “Once.” That occasion was a game at Middlesbrough in October 1988 during which the police stood by as the northern fans lobbed lumps of concrete, bricks and sharpened coins at the Millwall supporters. When the man beside him was badly cut by a 50p piece, Bannon complained to the officers, only to be threatened with arrest. After the match, he says, the Millwall fans were led out by the police to where the cars were parked. “Then the police just left. There were about 80 of us at this point. Then, over the hill, came 120 Middlesbrough.” They’d led you into a trap? “The police will tell you until they’re blue in the face that they led us there because they thought we’d be fine. I’d argue that they knew Middlesbrough would be there and then they f----- off. That day I’d just had enough.”
And what did he do? “I punched and kicked a few people. Then I got hit on the shoulder by what I thought was a baseball bat. I turned around and grabbed the person who’d done it by the throat. It was a WPC.”

Bannon’s cover had almost been blown when some of his Millwall associates had gone to find him and Chris at the house they were supposed to be decorating, only to discover they weren’t there, and roofers who were at the building had never heard of them. Much of what saved Bannon was the outrageous challenge to his ego: to be sniffed out would be to fail. “I genuinely felt affronted,” he says. “[They] had the audacity to call me Old Bill!” Bannon also told them painters didn’t come in until after the roof was fixed. It was just about enough to save him.
Bannon was further tested when he fell in love with the sister of one of the senior hooligans. But he insists the relationship never became sexual. “I’ve done some stupid things in my time, but that was one of my better manoeuvres,” he says. In his case, he explains there was no operational justification for a romantic relationship. “But if an undercover officer, in order to enhance their cover, having explored every other opportunity open to them, is still struggling to gain acceptance and the only way is by having a relationship with a target, I think it’s justified.”
He’s highly critical of Mark Kennedy who infiltrated environmental groups between 2003 and 2010 and had a series of affairs. As a result of his actions and those of four other undercover officers, Scotland Yard is now being sued by eight women. It is also being sued by Kennedy for “personal injury” owing to police “negligence”.
“He needs to take a good long look at himself before he starts looking at everyone else for reasons why he did what he did,” says Bannon. “When you’re on the ground, you’re making the decisions you make.” Ultimately, Bannon’s operation was shut down when two undercover officers that were working in parallel with Bannon and Chris came under suspicion.
No arrests were made – it was thought the evidence they’d gathered wouldn’t stand up in court. Bannon has mixed feelings about that decision. “Most of the people we knew didn’t deserve to go to prison,” he says. “But you can’t lose sight of the fact that some of them would hurt people simply for supporting another football team.”
Bannon began to see his time running with Millwall as a two-year long exercise in improvisational acting. He trained as an actor and helped write the cult 1995 film ID which was based on his experiences. He subsequently made money in property, which he then lost following the collapse of an ambitious attempt to launch an airline.
Developments such as CCTV and all-seater stadiums have done much to reduce football hooliganism. It still happens, he says, but more covertly, away from the grounds. “I don’t think it’ll ever go away.” He is not afraid of retribution now that he’s revealed his identity – nobody went to prison and it was a long time ago – and, in fact, he says he hopes, “there’s a certain admiration for what I did.”
“But,” he adds, “I’m sure there’s a part of them that’s like, 'that cheeky little…”

Hamilton Academical FC - Dundee FC - 23/11/2013

Source : http://news.stv.tv

Five football fans arrested after disturbance in coach car park

Five football fans were arrested following a disturbance at a coach park after a Scottish Championship match.

The incident happened on Saturday after the top of the league clash between Hamilton Academical FC and Dundee FC at New Douglas Park.

The match itself had to be temporarily stopped because of crowd trouble within the stadium.

However, it was after the game in the coach parking area near the Hamilton Retail Park where the alleged fight between supporters took place.

A number of home supporters allegedly stormed a bus of Dundee FC supporters.

Police Scotland confirmed that five Hamilton supporters and one Dundee fan were arrested.

She added: "Inquiries are continuing into the disturbance at the coach park on Saturday, November 23."

Dundee ran out 3-0 winners closing the gap on league leaders Hamilton to just three points.

However, the result was overshadowed by a disturbance inside New Douglas Park, which caused the match to be stopped.

A spokesman for Dundee FC said the club was "disappointed" one of their supporters buses had been allegedly attacked and added it was looking into the matter with the appropriate authorities.

Regarding the incident inside the stadium, the spokesman added: "We have as a matter of course begun our own internal investigation into the disturbance on Saturday which caused the game to be halted momentarily and have spoken to Hamilton about this earlier today. These discussions will continue."

Hamilton Academical FC refused to comment.

France : No away trips for St Etienne fans until end of year - 27/11/2013

Source : http://www.thestar.com.my

St Etienne fans will be banned from their side's away games until the end of the year after some Les Verts supporters caused chaos before a Ligue 1 match last weekend, the French League (LFP) said on Wednesday.

Last Sunday, nine people were injured when St Etienne fans threw seats at the home supporters at Nice's Allianz Riviera stadium, prompting police to clear the away stands.

"The LFP's competitions commission has decided to close the visitors' stands during St Etienne's away games until the end of the year," the LFP said in a statement.

The sanction means St Etienne fans will not be allowed to attend the trips to Stade Rennes and Montpellier in Ligue 1 and Paris St Germain in the League Cup.

Legia Warsaw - Lazio - 28/11/2013

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

120 Lazio Fans Held in Warsaw for Attack on Police

Warsaw police have detained 120 Lazio supporters after they hurled stones and bottles at police vans ahead of the Europa League match against Legia Warsaw.

The suspects "may not see the match", police spokesman Andrzej Browarek said.

The vans were deployed in Warsaw's main Marszalkowska street to ensure security before and after the game.

Lazio were due to play the Polish league champions at Legia's 32,000-capacity stadium.

Five Lazio fans were attacked by Legia supporters who broke into the hotel where the Italians were staying, according to daily La Repubblica.

Police raided the rooms of 17 Lazio supporters and found a bag containing sharp objects". All the fans whose rooms were raided were forced to take the flight back to Rome.

Lazio fans have a notorious reputation, with a strong hooligan hardcore known as the Irriducibili.

In 2012, twoTottenham Hotspur fans were stabbed in a night assault in a Rome pub by around 100 masked Lazio hooligans.

The latter have long been associated with far-right politics and a wide range of banners are often unveiled on the Curva Nord end of the Stadio Olimpico including some showing support for Arkan, the Serbian war criminal, and glorifying the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Former Lazio manager Paulo Di Canio, now at Swindon, infamously celebrated a goal by running to the crowd and giving the Irriducibili Mussolini's fascist salute after Lazio scored during the Rome derby. Former dictator Benito Mussolini was himself a big Lazio fan who often went to games.





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Source : http://www.football-italia.net

Lazio: 'Fans arrested for no reason'

Lazio director Igli Tare claims many of the 120 fans arrested in Warsaw are being held “for no reason.”

There were issues last night when a group of Lazio supporters were involved in a scuffle with Legia Warsaw fans and, on checking the hotel rooms of various fans, some were arrested for possessing knives.

Just before tonight’s Europa League game, further crowd trouble erupted outside the stadium with eye witnesses stating a couple of Lazio ultras threw objects at riot police, sparking a massive clampdown on the crowd.

“We know around 70 of our fans asked for a police escort from a cafe down to the stadium, but the police held them for no reason,” director of sport Tare told Sky Sport Italia.

It is reported 120 Lazio fans are currently under arrest in Warsaw.

Juventus - FC Copenhagen - 27/11/2013

Source : http://www.football-italia.net

Danish police confirmed the stabbing occurred during an altercation between drunken Copenhagen fans in Turin and did not involve any Juventus ultras.

Police at the Juventus Stadium also stopped three Danish fans who had hidden fireworks in their shoes.

England : Hull City fan Paul Morgan given three-year football ban after setting off flare at Everton - 29/11/2013

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

A Hull City fan has been banned from football matches after setting off a flare inside a stadium.

Adam Paul Morgan, 22, was arrested during the Tigers' 2-1 defeat at Everton last month.

He has now been given a football banning order, making it a crime for him to attend any match for three years.

He is also not allowed to go within one and a half miles of the KC Stadium four hours before kick-off and two hours afterwards.

PC Karl Corcoran, football liaison officer for Hull, said Morgan had been "stupid" letting off the flare inside Goodison Park.

"He is obviously a Hull City fan and has decided to support his team in this way, which is really sad," said PC Corcoran.

"Now he has been banned from watching his football team. The only place he can watch any football for the next three years is on the telly for as stupid a thing as setting off a flare.

"Hopefully, this will send a message to other supporters that they shouldn't take a flare to a match. It adds nothing to the atmosphere, there is no reason to do it.

"It is stupid and it doesn't make any sense."

Morgan has also been given a two- month prison sentence, suspended for a year, after he admitted possessing a firework/flare at a sporting event.

Police say the use of fireworks and flares at matches are on the rise and they are working with clubs and the Football Association to curb it.

PC Corcoran said: "It has been rising at matches across the country and we are trying our best to eradicate it, which is why we are taking a zero-tolerance approach.

"They do cause a risk of fire, they can cause fire, and it isn't pleasant for other supporters to have flares going off around them.

"It is illegal and we have a team approach to tackling it.

"Football stadiums now have really high-quality CCTV, so if you are silly enough to set off something you will have to face the consequences, including being banned from football."

The three-year banning order imposed at Liverpool's Community Justice Centre means Morgan is banned from attending any football match in the UK for three years.

He must also hand in his passport to police on dates when England are playing abroad.

PC Lee Lomax, of Merseyside Police, said: "Pyrotechnics, including smoke canisters and flares are extremely dangerous as they can burn at very high temperatures.

"The last place they should ever be used is in packed football stadiums. If the use of such devices continues it's only a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt. They also affect the enjoyment of the majority of genuine fans, especially younger ones.

"Bringing any pyrotechnic device into a football ground is a criminal offence."

England : Football hooligan pair are spared jail after Shrewsbury brawl - 30/11/2013

Source : http://www.shropshirestar.com

Two football hooligans have been spared immediate prison sentences for their parts in brawl in Shrewsbury town centre.

The fight between Shrewsbury Town and Walsall fans erupted in Mardol and Smithfield Road on 14 October last year before the league one match.

Three police officers were injured trying to stop the violence – including one who suffered a broken leg while apprehending Ross Gall.

Gall, 30, now of George Street, Weston-super-Mare, and Paul Walker, 42, of Swains Meadow, in Church Stretton received 12-month prison sentences suspended for two years and were banned from football grounds for four years at Shrewsbury Crown Court yesterday.

They had admitted violent disorder.

Gall was ordered to carry out 250 hours unpaid work in the community. Walker was ordered to carry out 200 hours and pay £500 costs and a £100 victim surcharge.

England : Fans wanted after violent brawl broke out on board a train after Millwall match - 29/11/2013

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

These are three men wanted in connection with a frightening brawl among football fans on a train to London.

The men are all thought to be Millwall fans who were on a train to Waterloo when a fight broke out on board.

The incident came after a match at Bournemouth earlier in the day which Millwall lost 5-2. The FA launched an investigation into crowd trouble at the game after a Bournemouth player was struck by a missile, apparently thrown by a Millwall fan, as he celebrated his side’s fourth goal. The player sustained a cut that needed lengthy treatment.

Detectives from British Transport Police have released images of the three men in an effort to identify them.

The fight broke out as the train was travelling between Bournemouth and Brockenhurst at around 9.12pm on Saturday October 5.

Police met the train at Brockenhurst and found two men with facial injuries. However, no-one on the train made a complaint and no witnesses came forward.

A police spokeswoman said no-one was seriously injured but the the incident was frightening for many passengers on the train.

Detective Constable Matt Bevan, who is investigating the incident, said : “We believe that football fans were involved, and that the incident followed the Bournemouth v Millwall match that took place earlier that day.

“We originally appealed for witnesses in October, and from the information we gathered, we believe that some of the group have connections with Milwall Football Club.

“If you recognise the men pictured, saw anything on the train, or have any information that could help police, please contact us.”

Wales : Men caught up in violent brawl between Cardiff City and Swansea City fans were acting in self defence, court hearsl - 14/11/2013

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

The four - affiliated to Gorseinon Rugby Club, near Swansea - had been drinking at Newbury race course when rival Cardiff City and Swansea City hooligans clashed.

Four men on a stag do who got caught up in a violent brawl between fans from intercity football clubs were acting in self-defence after their pals were assaulted, a judge and jury were told today.

Joshua Davies, David Jenkins, Robert Jenkins and Ryan Thomas were celebrating a pal's imminent wedding in a party of 70 men, which included Wales international rugby player Leigh Halfpenny, when trouble flared at a racecourse.

The four - affiliated to Gorseinon Rugby Club, near Swansea - had been drinking below a grandstand when rival Cardiff City and Swansea City hooligans clashed.

The jury was shown footage from Channel 4's TV camera and Youtube clips posted online by spectators showing the pockets of fights which broke out in a 15-minute period at Newbury Race course, Berks., at which crowds of 10,000 people were present on July 14, last year.

Today, a hearing at Reading Crown Court was told that police used all the footage to compile pictures of eight men involved in fighting and released them to the Welsh media for the public to identify.

The four defendants came forward as a result and were interviewed by detectives at Newbury Police station.

Each gave a prepared statement to officers citing that the stag's father Wayne Wilcox, aged in his 60s, had been attacked, as well as the joint best man and co-accused Robert Jenkins.

Prosecutor Damian Van Duyvenbode read each statement aloud to the jury of eight men and four women today.

Davies' statement read: "I was at Newbury races. I saw a group of boys over by the grandstand causing trouble by throwing drinks and fighting.

"I wanted no part of it. I noticed Wayne Wilcox on the floor and our boys standing around him to protect him.

"I did throw punches reacting to threat at my friends.

"I was on the receiving end of a few punches."

The statement of Robert Paul Jenkins, known as PJ, was then read.

"I accept I was at Newbury Races on July 14, 2012," he said.

"I know nothing about any pre-arranged fight between Swansea City and Cardiff FC supporters.

"I was there on a stag party from Gorseinon rugby football club.

"I do not support Swansea or Cardiff football clubs.

"During the afternoon I saw a fight break out. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was assaulted. I may have thrown punches in self-defence as persons continued to assault me. I am an entirely innocent party.

"I was kicked a number of times on the floor. I know friends of mine helped me and prevented me being further assaulted."

Thomas' statement read: "I accept I as at Newbury races on the day in question.

"I went there as part of a pre-arranged stag night with friends from Gorseinon rugby football club.

"I have no knowledge or affiliation with Swansea or Cardiff FC.

"During the afternoon a fight broke out. I could see members of party effectively being assaulted.

"I witnessed by neighbour being knocked out and my friend being kicked on the floor.

"It was clear to me that security staff couldn't really get involved due to the nature of the incident.

"I therefore made a judgement call to intervene only to act to defend people who I knew could have been seriously injured and were in immediate danger.

"I acted at all relevant times in defence of others and at no point the aggressor."

David Jenkins - no relation to Robert - said in his statement: "I accept I was at Newbury races. There was an incident.

"I turned and saw my friend Paul (Robert) Jenkins on the floor.

"He was being kicked. I ran over and pushed a group of males back.

"I stood over Paul as he appeared unconscious. I told the boys to 'f**k off' as Paul had had enough.

"I think I swung one punch only as I thought I was going to be assaulted.

"The male said I was 'having it'. I acted in defence of myself and Paul."

The Crown say the men were "aggressive, violent and out of control."

The fighting was compared with violent scenes from the 1970s or 80s when football was gripped by large scale public disorder.

Witnesses described up to 20 people who had suffered injuries from those with cuts and bruises to people who had been knocked unconsciousness and those suffering from facial and head injuries.

Bloodied and battered Nils Arneson, aged 45 years - a "well-documented" Cardiff City hooligan - was captured on screen in the crowds during the disorder.

He has a conviction for affray from 2000, and a violent disorder conviction from 2004 where he was handed a 10-year football banning order, a hearing was told.

Davies, who celebrated his 25th birthday today, of Priors Way, Dunvant, David Jenkins, aged 32 years, of Gryn Rhos, Llanelli, Robert Jenkins, aged 32 years, of Heathfield, Gorseinon, and Thomas, who turned 30 years yesterday/on Wednesday, of Brynffynon Road, Gorseinon, all deny causing affray.

The jury was told today that four other men had pleaded guilty to affray over the brawl.

They included Nicholas Southgate, aged 25 years, of Glynrhosyn, Gorseinon, Swansea, and Adam Gregory, aged 26 years, of Ridgeway, Swansea, who were part of the rugby club on the stag do.

And James Farrell, aged 45 years, of Frewer Avenue, Cardiff, and Steven Jones, aged 42 years, of Kildare Street, Manselton, Swansea, who were not part of the stag do or linked to the rugby club.

Jones told police that football thug Arneson had arranged a pre-arranged fight at Newbury through Facebook. However, despite investigations officers could find no evidence of this.

Giving evidence from the witness box Davies said: "There were chants that I know are Swansea City football chants of Jack B*******, Jack Army, that kind of thing.

"I could hear 'Soul Crew' being chanted. It was coming from a group of men facing them.

"They were in smart suits. A few members of our party looked distressed. There was a boy from our party on crutches.

"There was a mass brawl of men in suits punching and kicking a handful of my friends.

"There were three or four people ganging up on one individual on their own.

"My friends were being punched and kicked. I just wanted to help them get away from being ambushed.

"There were senior members and a lot of boys from our group getting attacked.

"I myself was being punched. One man in a shirt was attacking me. His friend came in following him and started punching me.

"I did not antagonise them and haven't seen them before. I was covering my head and a couple of my friends came in and pulled me away. Paul came and he got pulled in to the floor."

Davies, an engineer who worked for Tallis, an MOD contractor firm which fits communication systems in military vehicles, added: "I was being attacked and threw my arms up to release myself to try to get away from these men who were grabbing me.

"They said they wanted to 'f****** kill me and batter me'.

"Paul was being attacked by four or five people on his own - punches, kicks landing on the head, waist, it was a lot."

The brown-haired defendant added: "I was just set upon and I was defending myself.

"This guy was shouting at me 'I'm going to f****** kill you.

"I was shocked. I was so frightened. I was being followed around, so I shouted 'just leave us alone'."

He went on: "My friends had been set upon and I went to intervene to stop them being hurt or attacked.

"If I had turned away they would have followed us and attacked me from behind.

"My friends were being attacked. I couldn't just leave them."

Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny, who was part of the stag do, was not present when the violence kicked off.

Esbjerg fB - Standard de Liège - 28/11/2013

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Hooligans on a rampage

Esbjerg’s 2-1 victory over Standard Liege in the Europa League was marred by fan trouble after the police were forced to detain 130 unruly Belgian fans before the match even started.

Hundreds of Standard Liege fans had made the trip to western Jutland to support their team, but when a large group of them began antagonising Esbjerg fans looking for a fight, the police stepped in to try separate them, and then escort them to the stadium.

But on the way to the Blue Water Arena, the fans charged the police, bombarding them with firecrackers, bottles and metal objects. The police duly detained them and transported them to Esbjerg Police Station for the duration of the match.

England : Lincoln City hooligans involved in Luton Town Ritz violence - 29/11/2013

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

These are the moments in which a gang of violent Lincoln City hooligans attacked rival fans in a busy family pub.
The brutal assault on Luton Town fans in the Ritz pub has been described as some of the worst football violence ever seen in the city.

Lincoln Crown Court heard how the thugs were "bound together by their lust for violence".
Barrister Liam Walker told a jury: "All these attackers were football hooligans to you and me. These men are simply bound together by their lust for violence. They do not represent the great people of Lincoln or its football club.

"These men are thugs. They stalked their prey before launching their disgraceful attack."
Mr Walker was speaking during the trial of four Luton Town fans who had been accused of violent disorder following the incident on October 6 last year.
All four men were subsequently cleared.
Now, the 12 Lincoln 'supporters' are due back in court in December and have been told to expect a jail sentence by Judge Sean Morris.
Click to see the 12 mugshots of the Lincoln City hooligans involved...
The court was told how they entered the pub around 1pm, with Ashley Evans and Phillip Adams approaching the group of Luton fans drinking at the corner of the bar.
A Luton fan was punched, sparking violence which ultimately saw bar stools and glasses launched across the busy dining area packed with shoppers and families. People can be seen on CCTV fleeing from the area in terror and cowering from missiles.
Ritz manager Hayley Brown described the scene as "indiscriminate violence".
Speaking to the Echo, Lincolnshire Police football intelligence officer Andy Pearson said: "There were people of all ages in there, retired people and people with young children having food in a safe environment.
"The fact stools have been used, chairs, glasses and crockery have been thrown in such a short space of time it is some of the worst violence we have seen in a number of years.
"There have been incidents of disorder in the past but this violence and the fact weapons were used made it terrifying for those in the pub."
PC Pearson told Lincoln Crown Court during the trial of the four Luton fans that there were three groups of Lincoln hooligans which could number in excess of 200 people.
"In all the time I have been doing the football intelligence it is the first time I have known the Lincoln group become involved in disorder inside a family pub," he said.
"This sort of behaviour is unacceptable and would have been terrifying for anybody inside the premises.
"Someone could have been far more seriously injured from a result of a discarded thrown item. We accept that football disorder domestically has not gone away.
"The sentences that will be handed down will serve as a deterrent to anyone thinking of getting involved in public disorder but Lincolnshire Police's football intelligence unit will remain focussed."
CCTV footage picks up the thugs regrouping opposite the pub after the initial attack before launching another barrage of violence against another group of Luton supporters outside.
Punches were thrown and kicks aimed at the rival fans before a steel chair was thrown at them. And PC Pearson praised the quality of the footage in helping bring the offenders to justice.
"The quality of the CCTV was good and captured the two incidents, assisting the inquiry greatly," he said.
"Local authority cameras were also pivotal in helping us to identify the movements of those individuals both before, during and after the disorder.
"To go through all the CCTV footage has been very time consuming , but all of the officers have been very methodical and focused on the key individuals involved in this incident.
"Lincolnshire Police will continue to be robust and proactive in dealing with football- related disorder."

Lazio fans accuse Warsaw police - 30/11/2013

Source : http://www.football-italia.net

Controversy is growing over the 149 Lazio fans arrested in Warsaw, as 107 are still being held and accused police of “tricking” them.

The supporters were arrested in the hours leading up to Thursday’s 2-0 Europa League victory against Legia Warsaw.

According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, 42 of them have been released and around 20 of those were not even fined.

The others remain under arrest in Poland more than 48 hours after the incidents, spread out around 11 different police stations in Warsaw.

It is believed that only three were actually charged with attacking police officers, as they were responsible for throwing bottles during the march towards the stadium.

Those three have already been fined €1,700 and released for their return to Italy, but the others are still being held for minor offences such as disturbing the peace.

Questions are being asked in the Italian Parliament as to why their citizens are being held for several days without being charged, especially as the incidents were minor.

It’s reported Lazio ultras are raising money to help pay legal fees and transport for those fans still in Warsaw.

“The police stopped us because we were singing in the street,” accused one fan in the Gazzetta dello Sport.

“We got away with a fine for €50, otherwise they said they would’ve kept us in prison for 30 days. We were a little afraid, but were treated well.”

Another told the Corriere dello Sport “we were at the Hard Rock Cafe and asked for the police to accompany us to the stadium in order to avoid clashes with the local fans. The police opened up a pathway, but suddenly took us into a blind alley.

“They held us there for no reason for two hours, vans blocking the exits, and searched us one by one. We hadn’t done anything! When we arrived at the stadium, we were searched again twice and given alcohol tests while we were all photographed.

“There were fathers and sons, women and pensioners. We only got into the game at the end of the first half after walking 5km, as they wouldn’t give us any transport. Some went with a taxi, but they were dropped off outside the Legia Warsaw end and that was a huge danger.

“They only spoke English, but we stayed calm, because we could tell the police were just waiting for a spark... Lazio sold 750 tickets, but there were only 400 of us in the stadium. It was an absolute shame and we were held in there until 23.45, when we were allowed to leave four at a time.

“Some of our friends are still in the police cells. They took their phones, so their parents are frantically calling us for information. Any group of more than five people together was taken into the police cells. There were roadblocks everywhere and I saw young girls shoved around.

“The local hooligans were also coming up to us and asking for fights, but we didn’t respond to the provocation. Nobody reports that!”

Another in the Corriere dello Sport claimed he “saw 70 or 80 people pinned down and handcuffed. The police started beating them up, but nobody had knives or weapons. I only saw someone at the very front throwing a bottle towards a van, that was it.

“Some of us didn’t even go to the stadium, because the situation was just too dangerous. We went back to the hotel for our own safety and couldn’t wait to get home.”

The father of one of those held, David D’Ario, even revealed he was arrested despite not being a Lazio fan. “He was just there visiting with some friends on vacation. He has a hearing impediment, so doesn’t always understand what’s going on.”

Chile : Magallanes - Basilio Munoz - 27/11/2013

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Man fires gun as game in Chile descends into crazy brawl

South America is always the place to go for football brawls and this one in Chile might just be the most spectacular we have ever seen.
An amateur match between Magallanes and Basilio degenerated into a mass fight after one player slugged another in the face having been subjected to a sneaky kick by his opponent.
After some rather half-hearted karake kicks on both sides, things progressed when spectators took to the dusty field with poles.
However, no one was prepared for the sight of another fan wandering onto the field of play and FIRING A PISTOL.
Eventually tensions were calmed but not before a man with an automatic rifle had wandered over.