This 4th division game was marred by violence. Fights broke out, opposing Beerschot hardcore (120 to 130 men) to arch rivals from Royal Antwerp. Thirty-three people were arrested.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:36 pm
TSV Munich 1860 II - Bayern Munchen II - 12/08/2014
Source : http://www.tz.de + local press
Several supporters' groups were escorted from the city centre to the stadium. When players entered the pitch 1860 fan threw firecrackers in direction of Bayern rivals and also in the pitch. Supporters from both teams left their stand to confront and several missiles were exchanged. Three policemen were slightly wounded and five supporters were arrested. After the game elevent people were arrested but no troubles erupted.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:36 pm
France : FC Bourg-Péronnas - SR Colmar - 15/08/2014
Source : http://www.leprogres.fr
As Colmar supporters' bus started to leave the place, a big stone was threw by a local and the front window was smashed up. The man, 24 years old, was arrested.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:37 pm
KRC Genk - La Gantoise - 22/08/2014
Source : http://www.standaard.be
Inside the stadium Genk supporters sung against their manager and threw detonators and firecrackers in direction of the pitch. After the game they tried to enter, by force, in the main entrance. Three policemen and one steward were slightly injured and three supporters were arrested and immediately jailed waiting for a judge.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:37 pm
Borussia Mönchengladbach - FK Sarajevo - 29/08/2014
Source : http://www.wz-newsline.de
Police intervened during the afternoon to avoid any fight between Borussia and Dynamo Dresden supporters who joined their friends from Horda Zla Saajevo. Police said 400 Dynamo fans were present to support their friends. Later, police have arrested two Borussia fans who assaulted one Sarajevo fan who was wounded and transfered to the hospital. Three Sarajevo supporters with firecrackers were arrested. A fight also started in the away stand.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:38 pm
Russia: Sibir Novosibirsk - Tom' Tomsk - Cup - 31/08/2014
Source : http://sport.rbc.ru
When Tom' Tosmk egalized, special police entered the away stand and used their truncheons. Supporters reacted throwing seats at them.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Fri Sep 05, 2014 5:07 am
Blackpool FC - Blackburn Rovers - 16/08/2014
Source : http://sport.rbc.ru
Pool fans are arrested over Rovers melee
Two men were arrested by police officers on horseback after they became involved in a melee between rival groups of Blackpool and Blackburn football fans.
Robert Chesley and Scott Peterson were spotted punching and kicking out at members of another group while people were chanting: “We hate Blackburn.”
Chesley, a 27-year-old father-of-two, of Osborne Road, South Shore, who is taking a degree in building at university and Scott Peterson,an 18-year-old joiner, of Valeway Avenue, Cleveleys, both pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour.
Alison Quanbrough, prosecuting, said mounted police saw a disturbance involving about 16 football fans on August 16 at 5pm.
The defendants were among the fans and officers rode at high speed to arrest them after they were seen punching and kicking out.
After being taken to the police station, both defendants asked: “How long will we be in the nick?”
John McLaren, defending, told magistrates: “They had both been for a drink and then they joined in an argument between some rival football fans.
“It is something they would never have done if they had been sober.
“They both apologise.”
They were both given a 12 months conditional discharge and ordered to pay £85 costs with £15 victims’ surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Sun Sep 07, 2014 3:43 pm
San Lorenzo (Argentina) - Nacional Asunción (Paraguay) - Copa Libertadores - 14/08/2014
Source : Press
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:11 am
Stade de Reims - Paris SG - 09/08/2014
Source : http://www.lunion.presse.fr
At midnight, Erlon place, about a dozen Reims supporters confronted the same number of normal Parisian fans. As away fans do not have the idea to fight they continued their walk but locals ran for them and punched them. Police intervened with pepper gaz and truncheons.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:13 am
Italy : AC Monza - Novara - 30/08/2014
Source : http://www.ilgiorno.it
At the end of the game Novara tifosi assaulted one steward who tried to calm down supporters who received a water bottle threw by the Monza goalkeeper ! Two supporters, 43 and 51 years old, were arrested. One of them is already know for hooliganism.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:14 am
Following the game, Catolica supporters created troubles. Fights opposed them to stewards. Journalists were also assaulted.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Sun Oct 05, 2014 3:03 pm
Lokomotiv Plovdiv - CSKA Sofia - 30/08/2014
Source : mail
After the game Lokomotiv Plovdiv attacked Cska when they were leaving the stadium and fight with police broke out. Few people were arrested. There was trouble at the train station aswell.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Wed Aug 19, 2015 12:47 pm
Security in stadiums: The Netherlands - a dead hooligan and combi tickets - 12/08/2014
Source : http://www.schwatzgelb.de/
The situation of football fans in the Netherlands is one of the worst in whole Europe. Partly self-imposed, there are a lot and extreme restrictions. Also because of that, one can find more and more Dutch football fans around the Westfalenstadion who just want to relax and watch a game for once. The situation in the Netherlands has become a lot safer the past years, but at a high price. High penalties for violent hooligans, compulsory registration for people with stadium bans, registration to buy tickets, combi tickets, all-seated stadiums, trenches between the stands and the pitch, games without spectators, empty away stands, alcohol bans in a wide range around the stadium and total CCTV coverage in and around the stadiums and in the city centres have made Dutch football stadiums safe and destroyed the football experience.
Compared to the situation in other countries, these measures are not completely unfounded or highly exaggerated. The violence in Dutch football is more extreme than in other countries and partly fed by the drug (mainly cocaine) and alcohol abuse of a part of the hooligans. In a game between The Hague and Ajax in 1987, glass bottles, seats and pieces of concrete were thrown at each other over the neutral stand. In 1991 a fan of FC Twente was killed in a knife fight in the city of Enschede by Feyenoord fans. In 1997, the growing violence in hooligan fights between Ajax and Feyenoord resulted in a dead Ajax fan. He died of a brain injury that was inflicted on him with a claw hammer. The weapons used (knifes, baseball bats, hammers) and the course of the battle on a field near the motorway makes one’s blood run cold (http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/3744/Sportcanon/article/detail/1033257/2010/09/20/De-Slag-van-Beverwijk-van-hi-ha-naar-een-ongegeneerde-moordpartij.dhtml). The possibility of revenge has been in the air ever since and is announced by Ajax hooligans regularly. Games between the two clubs are played without away supporters since quite some time.
In 2006, hooligans of Ajax stormed the club home of ADO The Hague and threw Molotow cocktails and Nitrate bombs. The people inside the home, including many teenagers that didn’t belong to the hooligan scene, were attacked with knifes and baseball bats and some of them hurt badly. The whole was a revenge for the fire in the Ajax fan home a year earlier that was said to be set by ADO hooligans. Even if this kind of violence luckily is rare these days, there’s the possibility of vandalism and violence at many games of the risk clubs Ajax, Feyenoord and ADO The Hague. But also PSV, Twente, Utrecht and Groningen have quite some potential of violent hooligans among their fans.
Even violence against players is found. In 2011 in a game between AZ and Ajax, the keeper of AZ was attacked by a fan on the field and got himself sent off by the referee because he resisted. To protect themselves, the team of AZ left the pitch. Later, the red card was withdrawn and the game played closed to the public
The tragedies in English football in the 80ies were very fast reflected in Dutch football. All stadiums were converted into all-seater and trenches were built between the stands and the pitch. Luckily, the seating is not handled as rigid as for example in England. On the Ultra stands, most of the people are standing and the sphere in the home stands is usually very good. If it serves safety that there are easily breakable plastic seats that can be used as missiles is questionable.
A crossover leads the fans in Rotterdam from the platform to the away standThe fans suffer most from the combi tickets. The journey to an away game usually begins at the home stadium. There one has to show the ticket for the journey that is converted into a coach or train ticket and the fans travel to the stadium of the opponent together. The coaches are parked in separate cages, far away from the home supporters. Accompanied by the police and the stewards, the fans are brought to the stadium through separate tunnels or crossovers. Also there are separate platforms to avoid that the away fans can get in contact with the home supporters. The guest stand is often completely surrounded by Plexiglas and in the upper tier of the stadium. The feeling of being in a stadium is therefore completely lost and also the singing and clapping is not heard on the pitch. The fact that away fans also have to pay quite a lot of money for the tickets is reducing the pleasure even more.
Around 70% (!!!) of all games are classified as risk games. There are three categories (A, B and C) that implicate different measures. Category A games are not requiring any travel regulations, in category B, there’s the possibility for combi tickets and in category C, the combi travel is compulsory. Also the serving of alcohol is adapted to the category. In category C games, there’s no alcohol in and around the stadium. Only when the away supporters are back in their coaches or trains, the pubs in the area are allowed to serve normal beer again.
Flares are quite common in Dutch stadiumsPyrotechnics seems to be a little issue compared to the others and is hardly noticed in the Netherlands. There are quite heavy penalties of up to €1000 and a stadium ban of 5 – 10 years and sometimes detection dogs are appointed at the entrance, therefore pyrotechnics is usually applied that the offenders are not recognized (under banners by mummed people), but there are hardly any incidents that are covered by the media. An exception was the cup final 2014 between Zwolle and Ajax where the fans of Ajax provoked a later beginning and an interruption after 5 minutes with the directed throwing of smoke-bombs to the pitch. In the end, the media coverage was more mocking than shocked as the game was halted at the score of 1:0 and ended 1:5. The break gave the opponent the possibility to recover from the early goal.
It’s not surprising considering the history that the fans are quite self-aware and name their own behaviours just as much as the reason for the measures as for example the behaviour of the police. The relation with the police is quite relaxed as long as they are not showing their power with dogs, sticks and horses. The media is accused regularly by the fans for their sensational coverage. Criticism of the clubs or the authorities on the other hand is quite rare among fans. The most frequently asked question in discussions with Dutch football fans is: “Why is it possible in Germany for fans of both clubs to walk on the same paths and not in the Netherlands?” I still owe them an answer.
Rotterdam fans standing next to the away stand in UtrechtA danger for the future lies in the fact that more and more fans are circumventing the combi regulation and are therefore standing outside the away stands between the home supporters what basically makes a mockery of the regulation in the worst possible way. Also the drug abuse is still present and it is said that in most of the stadiums in the bathrooms under the Ultra stand cocaine consumption is quite common. As part of the violence in the 80ies and 90ies was due to cocaine abuse, that sounds quite scary.
But one can certainly not deny that the measures have paid off. If it was worth the price, everyone has to decide himself. To be an away supporter in the Netherlands wouldn’t bring me much joy and I don’t think it’s a surprise that the away stands often seem quite abandoned also in games where away supporters are allowed.
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Subject: Re: Season 14/15 - August Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:20 pm
France : SM Caen - Rennes - Played in Le Mans - 30/08/2014
Five people (4 supporters and one policeman) were slightly injured during troubles which broke out. Missiles like rocks, bottles and other missiles were used against police who used pepper sprays and rubber bullets to disperse supporters. Two Rennes supporters were sent to the hospital. The RCK bus was also pelted with rocks.
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