Season 01/02 - March

Estonia - Russia - 27/03/2002

Source: rus-hool.narod.ru

Riots between Perugia and Sambenedettese fans - 24/03/2002

Source: Ansa

Perugia team played in Brescia and only 2 groups of fans made the trip: Brigata Ultra and Armata Rossa for an amount of about 150 ultras who reached the stadium after troubles occured on the motorway with a group of Sambenedettese fans (about 300).
Their team played in Mantova.
After these scuffles all Perugia fans were controlled by police forces.

Mantova - Sambenedettese - 24/03/2002

Source: Ansa

A Sambenedettese fan was injured during troubles who erupted at the end of the 1st half. Three locals were arrested.
Some hours before Samb fans fought with Perugia fans on the motorway (see other news).

Riots in China - 24/03/2002

Source: Ansa

Thousands of fans caused damages and fought together but also against police forces. Everything happened in Xian, east of the country, for the game Shaanxis Lijun - Qingdaòs Yizhong.
Angry fans threw firecrackers onto the pitch and tried to set fire inside the terraces. Both sides of fans tried to fronted themselves, throwing bricks and bottles at eachothers.
They also burned a police van.
Police forces baton-charged.

RC Genk - RSC Anderlecht - 13/03/2002

Source: Soccer Fans website

BCS RSCAnderlecht

For this wednesday night "combi-bus" match venue, a mob of around 40 made the transfer without tickets to H. a city 20km far from Genk. After the match and after several phone calls, we decided with the locals of a pre-arranged off in Z. Arriving at the place, the first of our car spotted some of their lads in a pub and decided to plan the place of the "meeting". Back to our "troops", it was allready too late the cops were there (how possible ?????) and controlled all the BCS cars. 2 arrests were made...

PSV Eindhoven - Feyenoord Rotterdam - 14/03/2002

Source: Soccer Fans website

RSC Charleroi - RSC Anderlecht - 16/03/2002

Source: Soccer Fans website

SOURCE : CHARLEROI

Prior to the game, an off was taken by both sides of supporters. Locals left their pub with about 50 lads. Arriving at the agrred-place, only 20/25 of them waited for the visitors (others entered the stadium or stayed inside a pub), who arrived with about 80 lads. They charged the locals, normal fans ran away and the local lads tried to give a response. Belts were used on both sides and somes seats were threw. Cavalry charged to restore order. Gendarms also fought with locals. After the game, another off was taken but too much cops were present.

OURCE : BCS RSCAnderlecht

For this allways "pleasant away trip", we brought a mob of around 80 at Charleroi. Prior to the game, a pre-arranged fight occured just in front of the Wallons Boys sector at the ground. A mob of 50 and some of PSV-lads were waiting for us. A good 2-3 minutes toe-toe started and after a while we chassed some of them back to their stand. The cavalry made some charges and forced us back to the away sector. After the game the OB was on top and no more fight

RSC Anderlecht - Standard Liege - 22/03/2002

Source: Soccer Fans website

For this usual high-risk game the BCS brought a nice mob of around 200 man. Just before the end of the game a little mob of 30-40 strong made the show in a stand near the Standard section. The OB put into the show and some clashes started between the cops and the Standard fans. Those little incidents allowed the huge majority of the BCS firm to take their car and to ride to W. along the motorway ring of Brussels. After several phone calls it was clear for tha WCF mob that we would attack their coaches at W. After a while the first Standard coaches came into the place and no cops were present: all the mob was trying to stop the coaches (two coaches in particular), stones, bricks were throwing: this was the only way for us to slow down the traffic and to offer the opportunities at the WCF to come out of their coaches. Only one coach made a stop. 4 men came out for a second but in front of a 150+ strong mob they came in and made their way back to Liège... After some more phone-calls we tried to arrange another appointment but the Standard mob parked in Bo some 20 km far from Anderlecht declined the offer arguing that the OB was on top.

Falkirk - Airdrie - 23/03/2002

Source: Soccer Fans website

Poor mob of of only 24 Airdrie Section B turn up at Falkirk Pre arranged that Flakirk were getting help from St Mirren (Love Street Division....LSD)
When it kicked off outside the pub only maybe 14-15 Airdrie were there to fight maybe 30-40 Falkirk/St Mirren....who were well tooled up. Pool balls in socks, telescopic batons, bats etc etc....stil we stood them
The rest of Airdrie were still in the pub playing pool and drinking.
Falkirks top boy got a right hammering, Airdrie stood, and took it too them again in their town.
They phoned us asking us to come to them, why the fuck should we, we made the effort to travel to your town, and then you ask us to chase after you lot.......fuck off. When we come to your town you come to us, and vice versa. You wouldnt see anyone coming to Airdrie to hear " oh you better look for us"....bullshit.
When are these boys gonna realise that two mobs against one aint tough, especially when your tooled up. Only two police present at time of fight, a few casualties on both sides ( myself included ) but nothing major, just scratches.
Two mobs against one, just shows how much they fear us.

Airdrie....... Scotlands Elite

FC Turnhout - KV Kortrijk - 24/03/2002

Source: Soccer Fans website

SOURCE : RED SIDE KV KORTRIJK

For this game all Kortrijk hooligans were ready to make some action in Turnhout. Some 30 lads of us (most are political right-winged) came by coach and were all up for it. We weren't forget the Wevelgem-Turnhout game some weeks ago, where hooligans from Turnhout destroyed a pub because of the fact they thought that there were some lads of us too. With this action and many beers in our mind we arrived in Turnhout at 14h20. About 10 hooligans who were coming by car were waiting at the visitor's entrance.
We had a look around the stadium but NO visitors were spotted by one of our lads and we knew also that in the city centre was nothing special to see, so we decided to take a look at the ground. Little skermishes occured because of the high entrance price, but things calmed down very fast.
When we arrived in our bloc, Turnhout lads started provocating. We replied immediately and some of our lads climbed on the fence and jumped in the bloc next to it (who was empty for security reasons) but Turnhout didn't came to have an off. A big flag from Turnhout was destroyed and kept on fire before their eyes. We all went wild and started sneering to their lads too. Some 5-6 stewards who were there for security didn't know how to manage but Turnhout lads didn't made one move.
After this we decided to left our stand and to have a look at the backside of the stadium, because one of us had found a way to get pass through. So we arrived at the back of their stand. We attacked them with stones, staves, bars ... and even a fire extinguisher, but they rested in their stand just provocating. And it's unbelieveble but that went on for 10 minutes without 1 cop!!! At the end of the first half cops arrived at the ground and restored some order. They blokked the gate for passing through the backside of the stadium so we all went back into our stand.
After the game we were escorted by Old Bill to the motorway so nothing more happened.
CONCLUSION: A nice sunday with a very impressive west-flemish mob for third division and a disillusioned local mob.

Inter Milan - AS Roma - 24/03/2002

Source: Soccer Fans website

At the end of the game, as the result was definitive, Romas Ultras began incidents against local cops of Milan.
The Polizia had to make several charges, inside, but also outside the San Siro stadium towards the Inter fans.
A Roma fan was wounded outside (with a knive).
In total there were about 10.000 Roman fans who made the transfer to Milan.

Ajax Amsterdam - FC Utrecht - Cup - 29/03/2002

Source: Reuters

AMSTERDAM - Even before the end of the first half small groups of dissapointed fathers leave the stadium with their sons. They were looking forward to the semi-final cupmatch. Pity. In the stadium groups of F-siders destroy everything in their way in the catacombs of the first and second ring. They'd rather watch the remainder of the match in front of the TV at home.
Earlier, there was fear for the notorious Bunnik-side from Utrecht; the 'hard-core' alledgedly in posession of hundreds of tickets for Ajax-sections. But it were the Ajax-fans who rampaged through their own stadium like wild men.
Until 30 minutes before kick-off the ME (Dutch riot police) were sitting back against their vans. All was quiet in town. At eight 'o clock things got off. Near the RAI A group of 80-100 Utrecht supporters attack a group of 7 or 8 Ajax-fans who want to watch the game in a pub.
The fans are able to get away quite unharmed but a ME-officer gets injured by glass in the eye at a charge. 8 Utrecht fans are arrested. Some pubs in the Scheldestraat and Wielingenstraat are demolished.
Back to the Arena where 10 Ajaxfans are arrested before the match in an attempt to reach Utrecht fans through the transferium underneath the stadium. The real riots start halfway the 1st half, when Utrecht scores 0-1 and the F-side, according to police, goes totally mental.
After failed attempts to break down the segregation to the 2nd ring (closed off for security reasons), a large groep still reaches the empty sections. There they hit the plexiglas wall around the Utrecht section with iron bars. The riot police has trouble reaching the 2nd ring, but manages to beat the supporters back. After which they show themselves elsewehere on the second ring for another attempt.
The arrestation unit - unit of big-built undercovers - come into hard action. Extra ME comes in from the towncentre. The firemen and the Batra - squad (fire and teargas) have to extinguish several fires. The live broadcast from SBS6 has stopped because the cameramen have been attacked. Meanhwhile the foodcounters around the F-side show not be asshole-proof. Ecstatic groups bash everything to pieces which can be broke. Outside the driver of a harmonica-bus manouvres outside entrance K to pick up 52 arrested rioters who are escorted to the new cell blocks by motor-police.
The thriller on the pitch, in which Ajax2 almost catches up with FC Utrecht, keeps the rioters so occupied that the 2nd half and extra time are calm. But when Ajax2 eventually loses the penalty-series, tenfolds of drunk fans gather next to the main entrance. To besiege it and enter the skyboxes. The ME prevents it after making 35 arrests.
Relaxing is nop option for one platoon of ME'ers since they have to help with administrative work in the cellblock. They didn't count on 110 arrests.
Ajax-director Arie van Eijden ('the media should not report this') is unhappy by the dent in the club's image. De police is unhappy with Ajax. "350 officers and one-hundred-and-ten arrested. Not for Ajax-Feyenoord, but for a match of the reserves!" spokeswoman Elly Florax says. "Where will this end?"

Northampton Town - Cardiff City - 02/03/2002

Source: http://www.urban75.org

Leaving the ground, we were greeted by a full force of riot cops who had hemmed us in behind a wire fence for reasons best known only to themselves.

Needless to say, a few meatheads took exception to this heavy handed treatment and a few minor scuffles ensued, watched by open mouthed Northampton fans, clearly amused by the curious circus unfolding.