Season 06/07 - April

Manchester United - AS Roma - 10/04/2007

Source : Guardian + Sky News

Fans fight with police outside Old Trafford

Police and football fans have clashed ahead of Manchester United's home game against AS Roma.

Up to 100 people were involved in the street fights with Greater Manchester Police officers at Manchester's Old Trafford football ground.

Police dog units and mounted officers became involved with a series of scuffles with supporters close to the stadium's front entrance on Sir Matt Busby Way. Fans are understood to have hurled bottles and missiles at police lines outside the ground.

A group of about 1,000 mostly AS Roma supporters gathered around the main entranceway, although it is believed only 100 were involved in violence. Some fans suffered cuts and other injuries.

The violence appeared to last only a few minutes and was quickly brought under control by officers.

The ugly scenes followed last week's violent clashes in the first leg of the Uefa Champion's League quarter final in Rome. Hundreds of British fans were left bloodied and bandaged after they were beaten by Italian riot police last Wednesday.

A Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said officers had made "a number of arrests" but were unable to provide exact figures at this stage. She added: "We have not yet received any reports of injuries to either fans or officers."

Officers made seven arrests in connection with thefts from the Manchester United Megastore.

AS Roma fans were escorted inside the stadium while Manchester United supporters were kept a short distance away. Despite police efforts to calm the situation, the tension between the fans appeared to grow, with Roma fans hurling a firework into a crowd of United supporters.

One eyewitness said there was a stand-off between hundreds of United and Roma fans, with glass and plastic bottles being thrown by supporters. A request by police for the ground to be opened early so the away fans could get into the ground had been turned down by the club, he added.





















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Juve - Napoli - 10/04/2007

Source : IOL

fan stabbed in supporters' clash

A football fan has been hospitalised after being stabbed in the leg before Tuesday night's Serie B match between league leaders Juventus and rivals Napoli.

The attack followed clashes between rival supporters outside the Olympic Stadium ahead of the afternoon kick-off.

The man was rushed to hospital but was not reported to be seriously injured, according to the Ansa news agency.

The Italian government last week passed new laws they hope will stamp out football hooliganism.

Strict new security measures were introduced shortly after a policeman was killed when Catania fans went on the rampage before, during and after their Serie A derby match against Sicilian rivals Palermo in February.

The government clampdown demanded clubs took more responsibilty for security, including more closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at stadiums, named tickets, electronic turnstiles, adequate stewarding, and crowd filtering areas outside grounds.

Juventus were last summer demoted from Serie A and given a nine-point handicap in Serie B for their role in the Italian match-fixing scandal.

Sixteen charged in United-Roma clashes- 11/04/2007

Source : Reuters

Police charged 16 men on Wednesday after scuffles between English and Italian football fans outside Manchester United's stadium before their emphatic Champions League defeat of AS Roma.

Twelve English fans and four Italians were charged with a range of public order offences, including carrying knives, and were due to appear in court in Manchester.

Riot police were deployed when rival supporters hurled missiles at each other during a series of ugly skirmishes as they queued outside the Old Trafford stadium on Tuesday.


Police on horseback kept fans apart, while dog units and officers equipped with batons arrested suspected troublemakers. Several supporters were led away with blood pouring from head wounds.

A North West Ambulance Service spokeswoman said four people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

The trouble was quickly contained by police. It came after a calm afternoon in the city centre where fans of both sides mixed amicably in the spring sunshine.

Police had been prepared for trouble after disturbances at last week's first leg when Italian police clashed with United fans inside Rome's Olympic Stadium.

A Manchester police spokesman said there were a "number of small and isolated incidents" before the game, watched by a crowd of nearly 75,000, including about 4,000 Italians.

The English side stunned AS Roma with a 7-1 victory that sent them into the semi-finals of the Champions League, the most prestigious tournament for European clubs.



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Source : AP

Four Italians charged over soccer violence

Four Italians are accused of soccer violence after clashes between Manchester United and AS ROMA fans before match at Old Trafford.

The four face charges including assault and were due to appear in court in Manchester, Ceneda Flabio, an official at the Italian consulate in Manchester, said Wednesday. Flabio said he did not know the individual charges and no details were immediately available from Manchester police.

Twenty-one people were arrested Tuesday, including seven Italians. Police said that some of those detained were in possession of bladed and offensive weapons.

Before kickoff, fans from both clubs threw bottles and other objects at police lines outside the stadium and taunted each other with soccer chants.

"There was some aggression outside Old Trafford but no reports of people being hospitalized," Flabio said.

There were minor clashes as Italian fans returned to the city center after United won 7-1 - its biggest victory in the Champions League - and advanced to the semifinals 8-3 on aggregate.

There was a heavy police presence for the match because of the trouble last week during the first leg in Rome, where Italian police clashed with United fans inside the stadium.

Trelleborgs FF - IFK Goteborg - 06/04/2007

Source : Mail











Thanks to the sender

Romania: One fan arrested yesterday - 11/04/2007

Source: romanian press (mail - thanks to the sender)

Police make the first arrest in the case of journalist who was attacked by fans of Steaua Bucuresti.

Catalin Iordan, turned themselves yesterday.

Another fan turned themselves today at the station of Police nr.22.

Catalin Iordan don't have permision to leave Bucharest at the time of investigation. He risk 5 years in jail because hit the journalist in the leg


Catalin Iordan


Christian Ciocan, spokesman of Capital Police said : "Catalin Iordan and Nicolae George are the first suspects on this case but we are looking for other fans who make problems for this match."

Radu Enache, lawyer of Catalin Iordan was dismissed by the club.

"Steaua don't defend hooligans. Radu Enache was a employed of FC Steaua, and he don't talk with me about this case before. This kind of action are not good for the image of club," said Gigi Becali, chairman of FC Steaua.

Greece to Install TV Cameras at Stadiums to Stem Fan Violence - 12/04/2007

Source : Bloomberg

Greece will install and upgrade surveillance cameras at its biggest stadiums in the next six months to stem violence at sports events, with the May 23 Champions League final in Athens set to be the first to test the system.

The closed circuit TV system for 22 stadiums will cost about 7 million euros ($9.4 million), according to an e-mailed statement from the office of Sports Minister George Orfanos today. Another 14 million euros has been earmarked to provide electronic ticketing, an additional measure designed to help police track down trouble-makers, the statement said.

Greece slapped a two-week ban on all team sports matches, including soccer and basketball, last month after fighting between opposing fans before a women's volleyball game left a 25-year-old fan dead and several injured. The ban ends tomorrow.

Michel Platini, the newly elected president of European soccer's ruling body UEFA, warned last month that off-field violence is ``poisoning'' the sport and called on authorities to evaluate how they police crowds. UEFA has fined clubs including England's Manchester United, France's Lille and the Netherlands' Feyenoord for failing to control their supporters in European club competitions this year.

Following the fighting that preceded both of United's quarterfinal matches against Roma, UEFA urged English supporters to cut their drinking. At least one English team will be in the Champions League final in Athens's Olympic Stadium. Liverpool plays English Premiership rival Chelsea, and Manchester United takes on Italy's AC Milan in the semifinals. The stadium will host about 70,000 fans.

`Safest Final'

``We've taken all the necessary measures so that the Champions League final will be a success,'' Orfanos said. ``Greece will organize the safest final.''

Greece has also tightened up laws for those arrested for sports violence, removing the option that existed allowing them to pay off their sentence rather than go to jail. Police arrested 13 people in last month's riot, when fans from Panathinaikos and Olympiakos, the nation's biggest sports clubs, arranged a fight to settle a long-running feud.

Nineteen fans involved in violence have been jailed in the past few months, government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos told reporters earlier today. A total of 56 have been jailed since the new law took effect two years ago, he said.

```We are decisively and carefully moving ahead so that a few aren't able to impose the law of the jungle,'' Roussopoulos said. The government is working ``so that that we can all enjoy a sporting event, to be able to watch a match in a civilized manner.''

Arsenal FC - West Ham United - 07/04/2007

Source : Camden New Journal

Football fans clash in brawl at Fields

FOOTBALL hooligans staged a mass brawl on Highbury Fields before the Arsenal-West Ham match on Saturday.
Up to 30 members of the notorious Inter City Firm (ICF) waited near the tennis courts for what police believe was a pre-arranged fight.
Eye-witnesses say the West Ham supporters were clad head to toe in almost identical black “uniforms”.
They were seen huddled in a corner by the tennis courts, each carrying a wine or beer bottle to use as a weapon.
Members of the group were saying “Not now, not now” as if waiting for a signal to go.
The fight happened at about noon as children and their parents were playing on the fields.
About 50 hooligans were spotted by beat officers on a routine patrol in Church Path on the edge of the fields.
Police say that once the supporters became aware of the police presence they dispersed quickly. Lengths of metal pipe were found at the scene.
No one was injured in the fight although four men were subsequently arrested.
In January last year, when Cardiff City played Arsenal, a man arrested on Highbury Fields was found with a Stanley knife, extendable baton and several pieces of wood concealed in his clothes.
A 21-year-old man appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday charged with public order offences.
A 17-year-old youth was cautioned for possession of Class A drugs and two other 17-year-olds were arrested for violent disorder but later released with no further action recommended by police.

Dawn raids snare 10 suspected football thugs over mass brawl - 14/04/2007

Source : Edinburgh Evening News

TEN suspected football hooligans have been arrested in dawn raids following violent clashes before last month's Hibs-Rangers match at Easter Road.

The men were traced by police using CCTV footage which showed fighting on the streets in the Meadowbank and Jock's Lodge area.

Officers raided addresses across the Capital to arrest the suspects, who included both Hibs and Rangers supporters.

Police believe the mass brawl which took place in front of shocked passers-by on a Sunday afternoon may have been pre-arranged between the rival groups using mobile phones or websites.

A special squad was set up to review security camera footage and collect intelligence before making the arrests.

The men, aged between 17 and 42, have all been charged with breach of the peace following the raids on Thursday morning. Senior officers today warned they will continue their "zero tolerance" approach to football violence.

Around 70 people were involved in the fracas which erupted just before kick-off on March 4. Witnesses described the mob as "running absolute riot".

It is thought that the hooligans linked to Rangers were largely from Edinburgh rather than Glasgow, although security camera images have also been passed to Strathclyde Police.

Seven men were arrested and charged at the time, while a further five were detained and later released without charge.

The latest arrests, at homes in Leith, Restalrig, Pilton, Saughton and the city centre, brings the total number of alleged thugs charged by police to 17.

The crackdown follows the wave of arrests made in the weeks after October's Hearts and Hibs derby. Dozens of hooligans fought running battles in Lothian Road and Fountain Park following the match and 54 suspects have now been traced and charged.

In one incident outside the Uluru bar in Lothian Road, the pub's front window was smashed after a thug hurled a traffic cone through the glass.

Chief Inspector Willie Wills condemned the latest outbreak of disorder.

He said: "Let this be a reminder to anyone who is thinking about causing or getting involved in public disorder before, during or after a football match, that they will not get away with it.

"These latest arrests are proof we will not shy away from tracking down individuals even long after the incident actually occurred."

He added that convicted football casuals risk being hit with football banning orders which will keep them out of Scottish stadiums.

Tory MSP Dave Petrie, who witnessed the fighting as he travelled along London Road, said:

"All we could see were around 40 youths, most of them steaming drunk, running absolute riot. There weren't wearing colours so I couldn't say if they were Hibs or Rangers supporters."

Valenciennes - Marseille - 14/04/2007

Source: AFP

K.S.K Hasselt – RAA La Louvière - 14/04/2007

Source: mail - RAAL view

Several fights occured, opposing about 15 La Louviere lads (mainly youth) to an equal number of Anderlecht lads.
Tha game started for 5 minutes when 2 Anderlecht lads entered our terrace. They were charged and retreated in a pub where 4 of ours followed them. In the same time other punches were exchanged with other lads.
Police forces restored order.
At the end of the game, a small fight took place but police used batons and pepper sprays.

FC Sion - FC Zürich - 15/04/2007

Source : Limmattalonline

Fights at the end of the game

Fights too place, opposing fans from both sides. Young local fans threw bricks at Zurich fans. A local and a Zurich fans were arrested.

A large amount of police forces was up for this game and they intervened prior to the game as Zurich fans caused damages to vehicles.

Source: sionsupporters.ch

Security upped for tense volleyball match - 12/04/2007

Source: Khatimerini

Security will be stepped up for a men’s volleyball match between Olympiakos and Panathinaikos on Saturday – the first meeting between the two teams after a fan was killed when supporters from the rival sides fought last month before a women’s volleyball match.

Representatives of the two teams, the volleyball federation and the police held a meeting yesterday to discuss the measures, which will include the operation of a CCTV system at the indoor arena in Rendi, southern Athens, where Olympiakos plays its home matches.

It was also agreed that a minute’s silence will be held before the game in memory of Michalis Filopoulos, the 22-year-old Panathinaikos fan beaten and stabbed to death during the mass brawl between hooligans.

A 34-year-old security guard yesterday denied being involved in the club supporter’s death.

FC Fulham - Manchester City - 09/04/2007

Source : Austria80

Red Star Belgrade - Partizan Belgrade - 11/04/2007

Source : SPORTSKA CENTRALA

Auerbach - Energie Cottbus II - 13/04/2007

Source: mail + mdr.de (thanks to the sender)

40 Ultras of Inferno Cottbus make trouble during the game. They launched
fireworks and invaded the pitch, which effects an 15 minutes interruption,
after police get the control.
Moreover some of the Inferno lads try to set an antiracism banner in fire.

http://www.mdr.de/sport/4351569.html

Violence flares as Greece resumes team sports - 16/04/2007

Source : AFP

Several outbreaks of violence marred football matches in Greece at the weekend, following a two-week suspension of team sports after a deadly hooligan clash, press reports said Monday.

The worst incidents occurred during Sunday’s third division match in the western town of Agrinio where a fight left three people, including two players, in hospital and play had to be halted for 30 minutes.

In another incident, about 50 supporters in Kalamata, in the southern Peloponnese peninsula, attacked their team’s Brazilian coach and his assistant after the team’s defeat.

Other incidents were also reported in Larissa, Salonika and Athens during second division matches.

Public Order Minister Vyron Polydoras has warned against panic and opened an inquiry into whether the police presence at Agrinio had been sufficient.

‘Unbelievable’, ‘The Monster of Violence is Back’, ‘Violence has Won’ commented the country’s national daily newspapers Monday.

The Greek government decided on a series of measures and announced legislation against violence after the death of a 25-year-old fan in a pitched hooligan battle ahead of a women’s volleyball match outside Athens at the end of last month.

It also suspended all team sport matches until April 13 as a result of the fan’s death.

BVB Amateurs - Wuppertal - 15/04/2007

Source : Mail

Fan banned after football violence - 19/04/2007

Source : Lancashire Evening Telegraph

A MAN from Hapton has been given a football banning order following violence at Manchester United's Champions League clash against AFC Roma.

Darrell Flood, 45, was seen to throw a plastic bottle at Italian supporters, after it had initially been thrown at him.

Flood, of Andalen Close, appeared before Trafford Magistrates Court yesterday and admitted using threatening words or behaviour.

He claimed he had been attending football matches for nearly 40 years without incident and should not be barred from games.

But magistrates, as well as the ban, also fined him £170 and ordered him to pay £65 court costs.

Flood appeared before magistrates alongside two other United fans, 34-year-old Nicholas Storker, and Sasan Nikkah, 23, both from Stockport.

Storker was convicted of trying to incite the Italian fans and Nikkah confessed to throwing a can of beer at rival fans.

The bans mean that Flood, Storker and Nikkah must now attend any football stadium in England and Wales, or certain international games, for three years.

Flood was one of 16 arrested following last week's game, which United won 7-1 to progress to the semi-finals. Twelve were British and four were Italian.

Greece: Inquiry ordered over incidents - 17/04/2007

Source: Khatimerini

Public prosecutor calls for arrests of culprits after latest round of sports-related trouble

Sunday’s violence in top- and lower-tier division games included bedlam at a third-division game between Panaitolikos and Ilioupoli.

Responding to several outbreaks of violence that marred a number of local soccer matches over the weekend – right after a two-week suspension of team sports because of a deadly hooligan clash – a public prosecutor yesterday launched an emergency investigation aimed at tracking down culprits and determining why no arrests were made.

Despite the efforts of government and club officials to curb sports-related violence, the weekend was marred by violent incidents, involving players, fans and officials, in Greek soccer’s top-tier Super League, as well as in the lower second and third divisions.

Scenes of bedlam erupted in a third-division game between Panaitolikos and Ilioupoli when fans and players fought on the pitch. In the second division, Messiniakos fans attacked their team’s coach after a 4-2 loss against Kallithea. Super League play was also marred by on-field violence between players.

Olympiakos’s Brazilian star was sent off for striking a rival Larissa player. At the game’s end, the Piraeus team’s general director, Savvas Theodoridis, was struck by an object tossed from the stands as he exited the Larissa stadium. Panathinaikos striker Dimitris Papadopoulos was also shown the red card for hitting Apollon Kalamaria’s Alban Bushi, apparently in retaliation for being spat at.

Besides the overall investigation into the lack of arrests, the public prosecutor, Anastassios Kanellopoulos, ordered an inquiry into the incident concerning the attack on Theodoridis, the Olympiakos official.

Responding to these unsettling developments – not long after a fan was killed in rioting between organized Olympiakos and Panathinaikos fans on the sidelines of a women’s volleyball match between the two clubs – Public Order Minister Vyron Polydoras said has ordered an inquiry into whether police forces could have responded more effectively to the weekend’s various outbreaks of violence.

“I urge for calm as well as the non-proliferation of things,” said Polydoras. “We shouldn’t be overcome by panic,” the minister added.

Deputy Culture Minister Giorgos Orfanos, the government’s top sports official, said he was saddened by the fact that certain fans “lost control once more and created unacceptable situations.”

Iraklis - AE Larissa - 01/04/2007

Source : Newspaper

Poli Timisoara - Steaua Bucuresti - 18/04/2007

Source: mail + prosport.ro

Fight between Steaua fans and police after the game.

After the match, Rapid and Timisoara fans, come on the pitch right were Steaua supporters stand. More people from Steaua, try to entry at the pitch. Police come very quickly and the fight was started.

After that, 350 fans from Steaua were taken to the police station.







Steaua fan on the pitch :


VIDEO : http://www.sport.ro/stiri/6157/BATAIE-GENE#

Bordeaux - PSG - 14/04/2007

Source : Local newspaper

70 Parisian were arrested the day before the game. A huge safety plan was put into place to avoid disorders.

Rotor Volgograd - Sudostroitel Astrakhan - Cup - 15/04/2007

Source : ggulyaev website

FCM Câmpina - Petrolul Ploiesti - 19/04/2007

Source: mail + prosport.ro




A fan of Petrolul try to steal a banner from home fans, but police arrest him very quickly.
After that, a huge brawl was started in the stadium.

One police officer was taken to the hospital.

40 fans of Petrolul, was arrested by police because they make problems in train.