Season 05/06 - October

'Charges Proved' Over Cup Clashes - 25/10/2005

Source TEAMtalk

Chelsea and West Ham could face punishment over the behaviour of their supporters following disturbances during the Carling Cup clash between the teams last October.
The clubs had been charged by the Football Association after fans clashed with each other and police following Chelsea's 1-0 win at Stamford Bridge.
Police in riot gear were confronted by visiting supporters in a corner section of the ground some 10 minutes after the final whistle and it took 15 minutes for order to be restored.
During the match Chelsea goalscorer Mateja Kezman was forced to leave the field for treatment to a head injury caused by a missile, believed to be a coin, which appeared to have been thrown from a section of West Ham fans.
Both clubs denied the charges and requested personal hearings but an independent disciplinary commission ruled the case was proven and the hearing was adjourned to hear pleas of mitigation from the clubs.
The commission will then determine any punishment to be imposed.

Real Betis - Villarreal CF - 26/10/2005

Source : REÜTERS

Real Betis accused the referee of incompetence after controversial decisions in a 3-2 defeat by Villarreal triggered two red cards and missile-throwing by enraged home fans.
The home side had a late equaliser disallowed for offside, prompting further outbursts from players and fans.

"His actions went beyond the limit," said Betis vice-president Angel Martin. "He was arrogant, incompetent and shameless ... I've never doubted referees before, but with this man I do."
"He wanted to be the leading actor in the game and he achieved it," he said. "I think they should punish referees in the same way as players when they get things wrong."

The referee said Betis fans had showered the pitch with water bottles, cans, coins and lighters at the end of the game, and that one of his assistants had been hit by the objects.

Match officials had to be escorted off the pitch by police. Spanish media reported that the referee's car was stoned when he left the stadium in the early hours of the morning.

Fair fight in Stavropol (South Russia) - ??/10/2005

Source: ermolovfront.nm.ru

Wildlegion (FC Rostov (Russian premier league) vs Front in the name of General Ermolov (FC Dynamo Stavropol (KFK 4th division - zone South) 40x40

Legia Warszawa - KSZO Ostrowiec - Cup - 26/10/2005

Source : AP Photo + LEGIA LIVE websites

The fans are refusing to enter the stadium for a second game in a row, in protest against the club's policy banning six hooligan fans from entering the stadium.

Milan fans to boycott Empoli match - 25/10/2005

Source : AFP

AC Milan supporters are to boycott Wednesday's Serie A match away to Empoli in protest over high ticket prices and the new security measures enforced by the Italian government.

"We will continue our protest against the high price of tickets and the 'Decret Pisanu' by boycotting the match," read a statement by the Curva Sud Fossa Brigate Commandos, one of Milan's biggest fan clubs.

"We will not be organizing away travel and we will not be following the club.

"Without fans the football business does not exist and neither does its future."

Under the new legislation, a large number of surveillance cameras have been installed in and around grounds while match tickets now carry allocated seat numbers in a crackdown on hooliganism.

Fans who have been involved in trouble before can now be banned from stadiums while those who disrupt games by invading the pitch or throwing missiles face heavy penalties.
Crowds at Serie A matches are down 20 per cent compared with last season.

FC Bruges - KAA Gent - 29/10/2005

Source: mail

It seems Gent gave a phone call to Bruges lads with the aim to have an off at the end of the game on the main street. Bruges lads took the direction with about 150 of them when they saw only 20/25 Gent lads.
Seeing they were outnumbered, half of them immediately retreated....totally angry about the scene, second half of locals fought with...these guys as Bruges lads were laughing.

AJ Auxerre - Paris SG - 29/10/2005

Source: AFP

PSG lose ground on Lyon on night of violence

Paris Saint Germain's title aspirations received a knock when they slipped up 2-0 at Auxerre in a game marred by crowd trouble.

Violence erupted half an hour before kick-off when a group of PSG supporters infiltrated a stand reserved for home fans and started hitting out.

Police intervened, expelling some of the troublemakers from the ground.

Police were called into action for a second time just before half-time when missiles were hurled between home and away supporters.



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Tottenham fan arrested after abusing Campbell - 30/10/2005

Source: AFP

A Tottenham fan who abused Arsenal's England international Sol Campbell as players left the field in their derby match at White Hart Lane at the weekend has been arrested.

Campbell, on his latest return to the club he left on a free transfer in June 2001 after nine seasons for their neighbours, was jeered by home supporters from the first whistle and incurred even more wrath by catching Spurs' Finland midfielder Teemu Tainio with an elbow during the game.

Tainio needed stitches in a wound above his eye that poured blood before he was wrapped in a head bandage and Tottenham manager Martin Jol later revealed that his centre-half Michael Dawson was also hurt by a Campbell elbow.

Jol was furious when the incidents took place and sarcastically said: "I'd like to teach my players how to do that. He (Campbell) goes up for the ball with his arm up but it is a professional game.

"You saw the same thing with Newcastle at Grimsby in the week (Alan Shearer needed stitches after an elbow from Justin Whittle) but all we can do is let the referee make the decision."

Campbell, who was pelted with missiles when he made his first return to Spurs as an Arsenal player three years ago, insisted he was "focused on the ball all the time."

He was escorted up the tunnel by police and stewards after the game in which Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was struck by a conker thrown from the crowd but did not have treatment until after the final whistle.

Arrests after football fans fight - 31/10/2005

Source : BBC NEWS

Eighteen people have been arrested following a fight between rival football fans in a Warwickshire pub.

Police were called to reports of fighting both inside and outside the Black Horse in Exhall, where a large group of people had gathered.

Officers later stopped a minibus that was heading to Luton and took a group of people to Nuneaton police station.

They were questioned in connection with violent disorder and later released on police bail.

Police are reviewing CCTV footage but are also appealing for witnesses to contact them.

The fixtures and fittings inside the pub were damaged, police said.

The trouble is believed to have flared between fans of Coventry City and Luton Town.

Russian premier - league: Shinnik Yaroslavl' - Spartak Moscow - 30/10/2005

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Lada-SOK Dimitrovgrad - Lada Toliatti - 29/10/2005

Source: ff02.photofile.ru

Krylya Sovetov Samara hools met Toliatti supporters near Dimitrovgrad

Coventry City - Luton Town - 29/10/2005

Source : BBC NEWS

Arrests after football fans fight

Eighteen people have been arrested following a fight between rival football fans in a Warwickshire pub.

Police were called to reports of fighting both inside and outside the Black Horse in Exhall, where a large group of people had gathered.

Officers later stopped a minibus that was heading to Luton and took a group of people to Nuneaton police station.

They were questioned in connection with violent disorder and later released on police bail.

Police are reviewing CCTV footage but are also appealing for witnesses to contact them.

The fixtures and fittings inside the pub were damaged, police said.

The trouble is believed to have flared between fans of Coventry City and Luton Town.

Farul Constanta - Rapid Bucarest - 30/10/2005

Source : UltrasUnione website

Rot Weiss Essen - Vfl Osnabrück - 01/10/2005

Source : violetfreakz + Alte-Garden-Essen websites

FSV Mainz 05 - Bayer Leverkusen - 15/10/2005

Source : Mail

Jail terms for football hooligans - 13/10/2005

Source: BBC

A gang of football hooligans who rioted on the day of last season's Scottish Cup Final have been jailed for a total of more than eight years.
John Hepburn, 40, 24-year-old twins Stewart and Steven MacKie, Ian Carson, 40, and James Gallagher, 34, were spotted fighting by undercover police.

Last month they were found guilty of throwing bricks and bottles on a Glasgow street ahead of the match.

They have since been banned from Dundee United's Tannadice ground.

Hepburn, of Glamis Court, Dundee, the MacKie twins, of Albert Street, Dundee, Carson, of Adam Avenue, Airdrie, and Gallagher, whose address was given as Barlinnie Prison, appeared from custody at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

There were bottles thrown, bricks, and then they just clashed in the middle of the road, punching and kicking each other

They were jailed for a total of eight years and three months for their part in the disturbance in Bedford Street on 28 May, which involved about 100 fans and forced cars and pedestrians to flee.

Hepburn and Gallagher were each sentenced to two years, Carson and Steven MacKie were given 18 months and his twin brother Stewart 15 months.

The riot happened before the game at Hampden Park where Celtic beat Dundee United 1-0 to lift the trophy.

The court heard how a 30-strong group of fans arrived in Queen Street train station before meeting up with others in a nearby pub and walking to the city's southside.

Tip-off

Constable James Henderson, of Strathclyde Police, said: "They were running along Bedford Street, shouting and swearing towards another group.

"There were bottles thrown, bricks and then they just clashed in the middle of the road, punching and kicking each other."

The officer was part of an specialist football casual "spotting" team which was lying in wait for the men when they arrived off the train.

Officers set up a special group to look for troublemakers

They had been tipped off that a group calling itself the Dundee Utility was travelling to the city.

Police sirens broke up the fighting, but 29 men were caught in Eglinton Street as they tried to flee.

All the men except Stewart MacKie had previous convictions. However, he committed the rioting offence while on bail for a breach of the peace charge.

Sheriff Deirdre MacNeill said the evidence had shown that each of the men had come to Glasgow "with a specific plan" to cause trouble.

Following the convictions on 22 September, a Dundee United spokesman said: "True Dundee United supporters on that day would already have been inside Hampden.

"These men are not welcome inside Tannadice under any circumstances."

Dundee United hooligans jailed - 14/10/2005

Source: Times online

Five hooligans who rioted on the day of last season’s Scottish Cup final were jailed for a total of more than eight years at Glasgow Sheriff Court. The Dundee United casuals were last month found guilty of throwing bricks and bottles on a Glasgow street ahead of the showpiece match against Celtic. United officials have since banned the men from their Tannadice ground.

John Hepburn, 40, twins Stewart and Steven MacKie, 24, Ian Carson, 40, and James Gallagher were spotted by undercover police while fighting on May 28.

Koper - Maribor - 02/10/2005

Source : Viole Maribor website

Finkenkrug – 1.FC Union Berlin - 29/10/2005

Source : Wuhlesyndikat Union website

Bolton Wanderers - Wigan Athletic - 02/10/2005

Source: This is Lancashire - 03/10/2005

Six held over Wanderers clashes

SIX people were arrested as fighting broke out at Bolton Wanderers' derby clash with Wigan.

Police said they were certain at least two "large scale disturbances" had been planned by gangs of rival hooligans but were stopped by a massive police presence.

Two men were arrested for public order offences, a 27-year-old man was arrested for breaching a football banning order and one man was arrested for fighting at a bus stop.

A 17-year-old youth was also arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon.

Two people were also ejected from the ground during the game.

Police drafted in 100 extra plain clothes and uniformed officers to quell trouble ahead of the first meeting between the two teams for 13 years.

Chief Supt Lee Bruckshaw, the head of Wigan police, said: "There were a number of minor skirmishes but nothing more than you would expect for a normal Saturday afternoon match."

Web pictures shock of Wanderers attack victim - 13/10/2005

Source: This is Lancashire - 13/10/2005

THE sickening moment when a Bolton Wanderers fan was kicked in the street by a gang of football hooligans in Bulgaria is being displayed on the internet

Up to 20 Locomotiv Plovdiv fans attacked Martin Duggan before Wanderers' UEFA clash in Bulgaria last momnth.

The civil servant, who is now recovering at home, had to run for his life.

Now he has been horrified to find that not only was the incident photographed, but that pictures were posted on a website run by Bulgarian hooligans.

He said: "It felt sick when I saw the photographs.

"I couldn't believe I was looking at myself - I can't remember much about the attack. It was awful to see myself lying on the ground.

"They are evil and I can't believe they are boasting about what they did to me on a website."

Mr Duggan, aged 37, of Bristol Avenue, Tonge Park, was walking towards the Naftex Stadium in Burgas with two friends when up to 20 men ran out of a bar towards him shouting "English pig".

He was repeatedly kicked and punched by the supporters and his England shirt was ripped from his back.

Fortunately a taxi driver came to his aid and dragged him away from the gang.

Mr Duggan suffered a black eye, broken nose and bruising all over his body.

Despite his ordeal, he decided he still wanted to go and watch the game. Afterwards, he went to the local hospital for treatment.

Mr Duggan who lives with his wife Janet, added: "I have been going to games since 1973 when my father took me to my first match. This has put me off going abroad to watch them."

Austria Wien - Rapid Wien - 22/10/2005

Source: Brigaden 1994 website

Djurgårdens IF - Åtvidabergs FF - Cupfinal - 29/10/2005

Source : Djurgårdens fans website

Go Ahead Eagles Deventer - De Graafschap - ??/10/2005

Source: RTV Oost

At the end of the game, local fans caused troubles.