Season 02/03 - November

FC Magdeburg - Chemie Leipzig - 03/11/2002

Source: Kategorie Magdeburg website

Pogon - Lech Poznan - 09/11/2002

Source : Pogon website

BORDEAUX - RSC ANDERLECHT - 28/11/2002

Source : RSCA websites

Pub staff say police provoked fan violence - 04/11/2002

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

POLICE were today accused of provoking a riot after violence flared with football fans.
Pubs in Portsmouth have filed an official complaint against police claiming they used 'terrifying' tactics against Pompey fans after the game with Leicester.

Trouble broke out just after 5.30pm on Saturday when about 40 police in riot gear went to three pubs in Fratton.

It is thought Portsmouth fans saw Leicester supporters being escorted to the railway station and spilled on to the street to watch.

Eye-witnesses claim officers then stormed along Fratton Road in riot gear and marched into three pubs where Pompey supporters were drinking quietly.

Inspector John Anderson said: 'There was some major public disturbance from the Portsmouth fans after the match which amounted to a large amount of damage.'

But the owners of the Magpie pub in Fratton Road have lodged complaints against police actions on the night. Proprietor Caroline Marshall says her right wrist was injured by an officer.

Her partner, landlord Martin Donovan, said: 'Before it happened there was no hint of trouble. We heard Leicester fans outside and some of my customers looked out to see what was happening.

'Then the police charged up the road and they were hitting everyone in sight.'

Mark Slingsby, manager of the The John Jacques, next to the Magpie, said: 'We think the police provoked it. They were banging on the windows and doors with their shields and batons.'

Wallingford FC - AFC Wimbledon - Cup - 23/11/2002

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

Football violence erupts at small club

READING-based Oxford United fans were involved in a violent flare-up at Wallingford that marred a non-league clash with rebel club AFC Wimbledon, according to police.

Oxford's Third Division game against Kidderminster was cancelled on Saturday and police believe dozens of the club's fans went looking fora fight with fans of AFC Wimbledon, who have ceased following the former Premiership side over its controversial move to Milton Keynes.

They started taunting the Wimbledon fans before trouble flared in the bar at Wallingford's Hithercroft Road ground shortly after kick-off in the top-of-the-table clash in the Seagrave Haulage League.

Banfield - Independiente - 17/11/2002

Source : ESPN

Hooligans banned for life from Wanderers matches - 26/11/2002

Source: Bolton Evening News

FOUR soccer fans have been banned from Bolton Wanderers matches for the rest of their lives -- the first time hooligans have received life bans in the club's 125 year history.

The bans are part of a new policy revealed by Wanderers chiefs today in a bid to combat violent troublemakers who tarnish the reputation of the club by their actions.

The Wanderers will now bar for life any hooligan who is given a football banning order by magistrates.

And five year bans will be given by the club to anyone convicted of acts of violence without any orders being imposed by the courts.

The club confirmed that the life penalties it imposes will apply to both home and away matches.

The life bans today were given to Wanderers fans Shane Durham, Graham Knowles, Russell Brooks and Stephen Barrow, who were convicted of attacking Manchester United fans in a public mall during the Premiership clash at the Reebok Stadium last season.

A Bolton Wanderers club spokesman said today: "They are the first to receive life bans and we have now set a precedent. We will stamp out the problem.

"Bolton Wanderers Football Club would like to stress that it will never condone the actions of a minority of fans who have been convicted of any football related offence."

The four men were all part of a gang who tried to smash their way into the Spirit of St Louis bar -- which was packed with Manchester United fans.

Waste bins, bottles and glasses were all thrown at the bar's windows. Durham, aged 34, of Dougill Street, Bolton, Knowles, aged 29, of Northern Grove, Heaton; Brooks, aged 35, of Rusland Drive, Harwood and Barrow, aged 32, of Dilloway Street, St Helens, all pleaded guilty to affray at Bolton Magistrates' Court last month.

They were banned by the magistrates from all Wanderers games for five years and from being within a mile of any Premier or Nationwide League football game for two hours before and after matches.

But they have now been made subject to life bans by Wanderers chiefs.

Police football intelligence experts have revealed that a total of 23 other Wanderers fans are currently serving three or four year bans for disorder.

The Wanderers spokesman said: "Any person who has been convicted of a football related offence will in future be banned from attending games associated with Bolton Wanderers Football Club. With immediate effect any person who receives a Football Banning Order will be banned for life and anyone who is convicted but does not receive a Football Banning Order will be banned from Bolton Wanderers Football Club matches for a period of five years."

"In conjunction with Greater Manchester Police, the club is doing all it can to rid itself of such anti-social behaviour from the Reebok Stadium, and will not tolerate any behaviour of this kind from its supporters at home and whilst travelling to other grounds in the name of supporting the team."

A spokesman for Bolton Police's Football Intelligence Office said many other Premiership clubs and Nationwide League teams had launched similar life ban schemes.

He said: "It is going to help to prevent football violence in Bolton. It is still only a small minority of fans that we have problems with, but we welcome this."

Burnley: Suspected soccer hooligans quizzed - 29/11/2002

Source: Lancashire Evening Telegraph

AN overwhelming response to a public appeal has led to the arrest of 11 suspected football hooligans.

The men were caught on CCTV outside Wolverhampton Wanderers' Molyneux ground during Burnley's away game in August.

Since pictures of 12 suspects were published in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph last week police have been inundated with calls and some of the men are thought to have handed themselves in voluntarily.

No charges have been brought yet.

Huddersfield: Hooligan gets second ban from football - 21/11/2002

Source: The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A HUDDERSFIELD soccer hooligan has been banned from all British and foreign football grounds - for a second time.

But Graham Brooksbank still denies he has done anything wrong.

He blames heavy-handed policing for his convictions.

Of the latest incident he says: "I was thrown to the ground with my hands behind my back and hit with a baton, several times. I will be appealing against my treatment."

Brooksbank, 36, of Hall Cross Road, Lowerhouses, was banned from all domestic and international football grounds for four years and fined £200 by Nottingham magistrates.

The Examiner can today reveal that it is just two years since Huddersfield magistrates banned him from football matches for a year and ordered him to complete 80 hours' community service and pay £40 costs after he pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour in December, 1999.

The conviction followed disturbances at Huddersfield Town's FA Cup match against Liverpool at the McAlpine Stadium.

Brooksbank's latest ban came after he was one of three men arrested in Nottingham city centre after Town's 2-1 defeat by Notts County on April 20.

All three were charged with public disorder offences.

Paul McDermott, 35, of John Ramsden Court, Huddersfield was banned from soccer grounds for three years and fined £200.

Shaun Hendrick, 33, of Carr Green Lane, Dalton, was banned for three years and fined £175.

The court heard that police were called following a disturbance around 7pm, after the match.

Football banning orders were introduced by the Government two years ago under tough new measures aimed at stamping out soccer hooliganism.

Anyone subject to a banning order cannot attend any domestic or international soccer match during the ban.

They must also surrender their passports during international matches, so they cannot travel to games.

Details of people banned are sent to police nationwide.

Wallingford FC - AFC Wimbledon - Cup - 23/11/2002

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

Football violence erupts at small club

READING-based Oxford United fans were involved in a violent flare-up at Wallingford that marred a non-league clash with rebel club AFC Wimbledon, according to police.

Oxford's Third Division game against Kidderminster was cancelled on Saturday and police believe dozens of the club's fans went looking fora fight with fans of AFC Wimbledon, who have ceased following the former Premiership side over its controversial move to Milton Keynes.

They started taunting the Wimbledon fans before trouble flared in the bar at Wallingford's Hithercroft Road ground shortly after kick-off in the top-of-the-table clash in the Seagrave Haulage League.