Season 09/10 - November

Ajax Amsterdam - Feyenoord Rotterdam - 01/11/2009

Source: http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/riot-police-tackle-hooligans-amsterdam

Riot police tackle hooligans in Amsterdam

In Amsterdam, riot police stepped in on Saturday to prevent clashes between supporters of rival football teams Ajax and Feyenoord. The authorities had been tipped off that hooligans from both sides were planning a face off.

Police sealed off a bar where supporters had gathered and checked everyone for weapons. None were found but three people were arrested for not carrying ID.

Amsterdam's Ajax is due to play Rotterdam rivals Feyenoord this afternoon. No away supporters will be allowed into the match because of the unrest that broke out the last time the two clubs met.

The Netherlands : RKC Waalwijk - Willem II Tilburg - 01/11/2009

Source : nieuwsbank.nl

Several fights occured, opposing Willem II supporters and Feyenoord ones.
Firstly inside a pub then outside when both sides fronted themsevles.
Two Willem II fans, aged 19 and 20, were found by police with blood in their faces.

Later, two small mobs fought again but police stopped the mob from Feyenoord.
Three fans were arrested including one of them, aged 19, who fought a 17-year old boy, using a bike in his face.

Translation Underground Fans (c)

IFK Göteborg - AIK Stockholm - 01/11/2009

Source : extra.expressen.se

1500 policemen will be on duty for this very high-risks game, especially because the winner of the game will be also the winner of the swedish championship.
AIK supporters are angry because they received only 1700 tickets for the game but outside the stadium, 5000 fans will be waited.

And since 2004, hooligans from both sides aren't in superb relation due to a IFK fan was killed by AIK rivals.



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Source : YouTube + Expressen

Troubles erupted inside the stands where both sides of supporters threw flares.
At the end of the game, away fans invaded the pitch.



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Source : dn.se + gp.se

One hour after the end of the game, troubles broke out inside and outside the Goteborg train station where thousands of AIK supporters greeted their team who won the championship.
Hundreds of locals were in the place to attack rivals.
Dozens of fights erupted said police. At least one man was injured.

Outside the stadium, IFk supporters arrived in front of AIK rivals an fronted them. Some of them had batons and police intervened.

A total of 23 people were arrested and 6 hospitalized.









Translation Underground Fans (c)

Deportivo La Coruna - Sporting Gijon - 01/11/2009

Source: http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/deportes/2009/11/01/00031257101824901661333.htm

A brawl opposed both sides before the game

A violent fight erupted inside a pub, in the Calvo Sotelo avenue, near the stadium.
People who saw the scene said several people were injured during this fight who took place for 10 minutes before the special unit intervention.

Translation Underground Fans (c)

Argentina: La Ribera Rawson - Germinal - 01/11/2009

Source: http://www.diariojornada.com.ar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23781:rawson-la-barra-de-germinal-provoco-serios-incidentes-al-termino-del-clasico&catid=40:provinciales&Itemid=67&viewDate=2009-11-01%2001:20:18

It was forbidden to away supporters to enter the stadium but a mob of them tried to enter, forcing a fence so police intervened and charged them.
Six of them were arrested.
At the end of the game, these supporters attacked their rivals near Puente Nuevo.

Translation Underground Fans (c)

Sweden : IF Elfsborg - Helsingborgs IF - 01/11/2009

Source : kvp.se

After the game police have stopped a coach full with HIF supporters because they caused problems in a shop on the highway.
Some fans escaped when police arrived but police have taken pictures of 25 to 30 of them and now CCTV will be checked.



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Exclusive: CCTV catches £100k-a-year German football thug leading riot - 01/11/2009

Source : sundaymail.co.uk

A TOP finance expert led a brutal attack by hundreds of German football thugs on three Scots police officers.

The Sunday Mail can reveal details of the shocking riot led by Hamburg hooligan ringleader Rene Wurzbach.

The 32-year-old graduate assaulted and injured three cops as his 300-strong mob rampaged through Glasgow city centre.

CCTV footage shows shaven-headed Wurzbach running at police officers at the head of a baying column of Hamburg supporters.

Watch the dramatic footage on our player below.

He viciously kicks a female constable before lashing a punch at a male colleague and then kicking another officer.

Details of the riot led by high-flyer Wurzbach will shock the German financial sector, where he earns more than £100,000 a year as a management consultant.

Wurzbach was arrested and held in a cell before Hamburg's Europa league match with Celtic at Parkhead 11 days ago.

But he was freed after a sheriff said it was not feasible to get background reports on him and that she would be unable to take into consideration any previous crimes he had committed in Germany.

Wurzbach paid his entire £1600 fine on the spot by credit card at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday.

A police source said: "This is the kind of hooligan riot which the public remain unaware of - unless they are unlucky enough to be caught up in it."

There was a terrifying mob mentality as the hooligans ran through the streets in the early evening.

The footage shows how, without warning, Wurzbach suddenly leads a charge along Parnie Street in the Merchant City, near to busy Argyle Street.

The terrified driver of a Honda desperately tries to reverse to avoid the mob.

Then boozed-up Wurzbach turns his venom on police officers and viciously boots PC Kirsty Scrimgeour.

Without breaking stride, he punches a second constable, Campbell Kyle, and then kicks his boss, Chief Inspector Anthony O'Donnell, between the legs.

A fourth officer tries to hit him with his stick before he runs off.

Wurzbach was later arrested and spent a week in Barlinnie Prison before appearing at the city's sheriff court.

The German - who speaks fluent English - admitted three police assaults and a charge of breach of the peace.

Two of the officers had to take time off work to recover from their injuries.

Wurzbach's work takes him all over Germany, Austria and Russia to the offices of his wealthy corporate clients.

He flies business class at their expense and advises them on financial and management matters.

On an internet website entry, he claims to work for BearingPoint, an American multi-national management consultancy company who sponsored American golfer Phil Mickelson.

However, at weekends and while on trips abroad to see his club play matches, he swaps his pinstripe suit for denims and hooded Hamburg FC tops.

Sheriff Celia Sanderson told him: "We have enough football thugs here without you behaving in an appalling manner.

"You were almost a ringleader. You were inciting a crowd and assaulted three police officers badly.

"I have not had a record of previous convictions provided, so I have to treat you as a first offender.

"If I were to consider jail, I would have had to have obtained a report but I do not consider that feasible, as you are a German national."

"If you do not pay, then you will be given the alternative, which is jail."

The thug - still wearing the same Hamburg FC jacket that he was arrested in - made no comment as he left after the hearing.

The court heard that the German fans had been spotted on Glasgow Bridge, at the bottom of Jamaica Street, en-route to Celtic Park.

Police were forced to move in as they became concerned the drunken mob could start trouble.

As the riot broke out around Parnie Street, various incidents were caught on CCTV cameras.

After he was shown the film, Wurzbach decided to plead guilty.

The police source said: "He was out of control and looking for trouble. He did not seem to care who he was hitting.

"Assaulting police officers doing their job is bad enough but to strike a female constable like that is shocking. It really made you wince.

"Wurzbach has brought shame upon his country and is very lucky that he is free to return so soon. After he had sobered up, he was very contrite and seemed worried he would lose his job if he was jailed."

Wurzbach's lawyer, Jason Beltrami, of Beltrami Berlow, said his client could not remember assaulting the officers and that he realised that he had "done wrong".

A spokesman for Bearing-Point said yesterday: "For reasons of confidentiality, we do not confirm employment of any individual or disclose any individualrelated information." Assistant Chief Constable Fiona Taylor said: "Fortunately the officers were not seriously hurt and have since returned to operational duties.

"It is, however, absolutely unnacceptable for police officers to be assaulted in the course of their duties and we will vigorously pursue any offender who causes such injury to our staff."

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German policeman seriously hurt in football fan violence - 01/11/2009

Source : dpa

A German police officer was seriously injured after being attacked by football fans in Krefeld on Sunday in the latest incident of violence marring the country's lower leagues. Police said a group of KFC Uerdingen fans attacked the officer who was repeatedly kicked in the head as he lay on the ground. The officer was taken to hospital with head injuries.

The fans also attacked police arriving at the scene, injuring a policewoman on the arm. Two men were arrested.

Uerdingen played as Bayer Uerdingen in the Bundesliga but the club is now in a regional fifth division.

German football has been marred by several incidents of fan violence recently.

On Friday, 36 people including 11 police were injured in rioting which broke out during a regional fourth-division match between FSV Zwickau and Erzgebirge Aue.

Police detained 54 fans during the game in which fans ripped up seats and used them as missiles, attacked police and stewards with fireworks and tried to climb fencing around the pitch.

In an incident the previous weekend around 50 fans at a lower league game in eastern Germany clashed with opposition supporters and police after storming the pitch armed with stones, iron bars and wooden planks.

Last week police in Saxony-Anhalt state said they would be seeking attempted murder charges against hooligans after an incident in late September when masked fans launched an attack on police at a regional game between Halleschen FC and Magdeburg.

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FC Hansa Rostock - FC St. Pauli - 02/11/2009

Source : The Associated Press + Spiegel + media.ostsee-zeitung.de

Police use water cannon to end German football riot

Police used a water cannon to overcome rioting football fans after a second-division game and detained 23 people. Twenty-seven officers were slightly hurt.

The police reacted when about 500 violent supporters of Hansa Rostock tried to breach a police barrier and threw bottles and firecrackers after their club had lost to visiting St. Pauli 2-0. About 1,500 police were on hand for the game between the clubs whose supporters have a history of animosity.

There were clashes during and after Monday night's game between rival groups of supporters.

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Source : DPA

DFB probes St Pauli player in trouble-marred game in Rostock

The German football federation DFB is investigating the behaviour of St Pauli Hamburg player Deniz Naki during a trouble-marred second division match at Hansa Rostock. The DFB said on Tuesday that Naki was accused via television evidence of making a cut-throat gesture towards Rostock fans after scoring for St Pauli in a 2-0 victory on Monday night.

He faces sanctions for unsportsmanlike conduct. The DFB is able to take action because the incident went unnoticed by the referee.

Earlier the match was stopped for three minutes after St Pauli's first goal when fans in the visitors' section of the stadium set off flares.

A DFB investigation into this incident was also expected.

After the game, police used water cannon and arrested 23 fans in violent clashes with Rostock fans. Seeveral officers were slightly injured, police said.

Matches between St Pauli and Rostock have been overshadowed by violence for the past years. Some 500 officers were on hand for Monday's game.









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St.Pauli mob

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Ferencvaros ordered to play 3 home matches in empty stadium after fan violence - 03/11/2009

Source : The Canadian Press

Ferencvaros has been ordered to play its next three home matches in an empty stadium after fan violence caused its last league game to be stopped early.

The Hungarian football federation also fined Ferencvaros 3 million forints (C$16,964) on Tuesday.

Diosgyor was leading 3-1 at Ferencvaros on Saturday when a group of fans began throwing firecrackers and pieces of chairs ripped from the stands on to the pitch and at police. The referee stopped the match in the 69th minute.

Hooligan warning for Celtic fans ahead of Hamburg clash - 04/11/2009

Source : Scottish Daily Record

CELTIC fans have been warned about German hooligans ahead of tomorrow's Euro clash in Hamburg.

Police in Scotland and Germany fear a repeat of the trouble which flared in Glasgow before the teams met two weeks ago.

Many in the Hamburg crowd chanted Rangers songs to taunt the home support.

A police spokesman said: "Fans should avoid any areas of the city that would bring them into potential conflict with Hamburg supporters.

Bulgarian Football Hooligan Jailed after Derby Mass Brawl - 04/11/2009

Source : novinite.com

A court has sentenced to eight month in prison a football fan, who was arrested on Saturday after a mass brawl erupted at the end of the Botev Plovdiv's 1-0 home win over city rivals Lokomotiv in the Bulgarian league.

Police say Georgi Velichkov, 20, was seen setting plastic flags on fire, pelting officers with rocks and stones.

Velichkov has admitted to these crimes. The sentence of Plovdiv District Court is final and can not be appealed.

The arrested man has a criminal record connecting him with six other related incidents.

A mass brawl marred Botev Plovdiv's clash with Lokomotiv on Saturday as players, staff and fans exchanged kicks and punches and threw all kinds of objects on to the field.

Police said they detained four fans for hooliganism while television pictures showed a policeman being hit by a stone thrown from the stands.

Plovdiv District Court imposed earlier in the week a BGN 400 fine on a 31-year-old fan and ruled that the other two arrested, aged 19, remain behind bars for ten days.

The three men will also be prohibited to visit sports events in the course of one year.

Lokomotiv management has slammed in a statement “the unsporting behaviour“ of some of Loko players, vowing to punish them accordingly.


A mass brawl marred Botev Plovdiv's clash with Lokomotiv on Saturday as players, staff and fans exchanged kicks and punches and threw all kinds of objects on to the field.

Cheltenham football fans appear in court - 04/11/2009

Source : Gloucester Citizen

​Fourteen football fans squeezed into a courtroom today charged with being part of a large-scale brawl at a pub.

The Oxford United supporters were arrested after violence was reported at the Moon under Water, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Three local men, who are not football followers, were also charged in connection with the incident.

A coach booked by Oxford United fans had redirected to Cheltenham following the cancellation of a match in Kettering due to bad weather.

All 17 defendants, aged between 18 and 39, are charged with causing “violent disorder” at the pub on February 7 this year.

None of the men – who stood at the back of Gloucester Crown Court unable to fit into the small, wooden-framed dock – entered pleas.

Oxford fans Lee Arnold, Paul Southey (AKA Blair), Jeremy Smith, Benjamin Sabbitini-Oliver, Andrew McMahon, Christopher Wyane, Sean Keaney, Sean Bone, Aidan McManus, Tristan Hayle, Dale Bowman, Tommy Bielec, Allan Stimpson and Christopher Williams stood at the back of Gloucester Crown Court.

Beside them were Richard Hamilton, from Cheltenham, Robert Hoskins, from Matson, Gloucester, and Daniel McCauley from Cheltenham.

Keaney faces an additional charge of assaulting a police officer.

Southey is also charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Sabbitini-Oliver and McManus are also charged with possessing a Class A drug.

As a condition of bail, the defendants have been banned from attending their teams’ matches.

Germany : Police ask football leagues to foot the bill for hooliganism - 04/11/2009

Source : thelocal.de

After the latest football violence left 29 police slightly injured in Rostock, the police union on Wednesday demanded Germany’s leagues pay up to €50 million a season to combat hooliganism.

“We are waiting for the German Football Federation (DFB) and the Bundesliga (DFL) to take a reasonable share of these costs,” the union’s national chairman, Rainer Wendt, told broadcaster ZDF.

“A flat charge that paid for a season – something like €50 million – would be a real friendship price,” Wendt said. “The personnel costs alone for police deployments at football matches are clearly more than €100 million."

The union has been deeply critical in the past of fixtures of so-called “problem matches,” such as the meeting between Hansa Rostock and St Pauli on Monday night.

These matches are in the police union’s view entirely commercially driven, Wendt said.

He also demanded that police have a say in scheduling matches. Night time games are a problem for police because of the darkness outside the stadiums, he said.

An investigation has begun into the violence in Rostock, in the northern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in which 500 violent supporters of Hansa Rostock tried to breach a police barrier and threw stones, bottles and firecrackers after their club lost to visiting St Pauli 2-0.

The two clubs have a history of conflict.

One suspect had been identified by a security video recording, said Rostock public prosecutor Peter Lückemann. The suspect had thrown several stones but did not appear to have caused any injuries.

Some 23 suspects – all Rostock supporters – were arrested on Monday but all were released overnight.

DFB president Theo Zwanziger has previously accused the police union of stirring fear among fans and described earlier remarks by Wendt as “irresponsible.”

Unirea Urziceni - Glasgow Rangers - 04/11/2009

Source : STV.TV

Rangers fans clash with riot police in Romania

Violent scenes following Champions League match in Bucharest.




Violent scenes have marred Rangers' Champions League match in Romania on Wednesday night.

Police and stewards clashed with Rangers supporters in the Steaua Stadium during the game against Unirea Urziceni in Bucharest.

A handful of the estimated 2,000 travelling fans were seen throwing seats and surging forward to confront the security at the 27,500 capacity stadium.

Television cameras showed police and security using their batons and discharging what appeared to be pepper spray to repel the fans.

Speaking after the match, Andy Kerr, president of the Rangers Supporters Assembly, said that there had earlier been trouble outside the ground as fans tried to gain entry to the ground.

He said: "I’ve been told there was pressure at the front [of the crowd]. Spray was used, which was used before the match.

"The last time we had similar problems was in Artmedia Bratislava. They always seem surprised that we all turn up at the same time to try to get in.

"This is the Champions League. It’s supposed to be the best stadiums in the world. This ain’t the best stadium in the world."

He added: "In the big scheme of things this is a minor incident."

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Fans blame police for Rangers crowd trouble

UEFA are set to investigate after Rangers fans clashed with security at the Steaua Stadium in Bucharest.

The debate continues this morning over who is to blame for the violence which erupted in the Steaua Stadium in Bucharest. TV coverage showed a group of fans clashing with police who were wading into the crowd with batons and CS gas.

The trouble came to light at half time when Sky Sports broadcast what seemed to be an isolated incident. Stewards in yellow bibs and security kitted up with riot gear went head-to-head with an enraged section of the 2,000 strong Rangers support.

Some fans were seen ripping up chairs and covering their faces with plastic flags to protect themselves from the burning gas as they were driven back into the stands.

Tannoy announcements ordered by UEFA warned fans that the match would be abandoned and the governing body's officials carried out an immediate port-mortem at the end of the game ahead of a more in-depth investigation.

But Rangers representatives have slammed the local organisers and the heavy handed approach of the police. Rangers chief executive Martin Bain insisted that the actions of the police were at the root of the problem.

"When they arrived this evening there were only two turnstiles open which caused difficulty gaining access and fans then to be sprayed with CS gas is totally unacceptable.”

"That therefore led to tension inside the stadium which I find it totally unacceptable, and I will make representation to UEFA."

Speaking to TV reporters after the match, Rangers Supporters Assembly president Andy Kerr admitted that fans had tried to force entry after finding just two gates open, prompting local police to start spraying fans with CS gas.

He added: “The last time we had similar problems was in Artmedia Bratislava. They always seem surprised that we all turn up at the same time to try to get in.

Another fan told the Scottish Sun: "It was terrifying - the police treated us like animals.

"They were attacking the fans at the front for no reason, hitting them with batons and spraying them with gas.

"Then they started to come up the stairs towards us, doing the same things. Men were running away from them with huge cuts in their heads, with blood pouring out of them."

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Source : Scottish Daily Record

Rangers chief demands UEFA probe as fans involved in half-time riot with Romanian stewards

RANGERS chief executive Martin Bain last night demanded a UEFA probe into the battle of Bucharest as he revealed fans were set upon by security men before violence erupted inside the stadium.

The Champions League clash between the Ibrox side and Romanians Unirea Urziceni was overshadowed by a series of horrific running battles between a group of Rangers supporters and yellowbibbed stewards.

The violence broke out at halftime in the Ghencea Stadium when around a dozen thugs rushed at a group of stewards who then hit back with batons and CS gas.

More Rangers fans then retaliated by ripping out plastic seats and hurling them on to the track as the stewards regrouped.

The attacks went on sporadically throughout the half-time interval and calm was only restored when the players returned to the field for the second half of the Group G tie.

UEFA then ordered a tannoy statement be read out in English warning that the match would be abandoned if the violence continued - and that Rangers would be hit with "serious consequences".

The Ibrox club can now expect to be hammered for these latest shameful scenes - which come two years after they were fined for clashes between fans and police in Pamplona during a UEFA Cup clash with Osasuna.

UEFA's on-the-spot security chiefs held an immediate post mortem after the match but not before Bain had demanded a full-scale investigation into the events which he believes sparked the trouble inside the ground.

Some Rangers supporters were locked out of the stadium. for the entire first half after the Romanians refused to open extra turnstiles.

And it was during this lock-out that Bain says the supporters were subjected to CS gas attacks by heavyhanded officials.

Bain said: "I am obviously concerned with the scenes from some of the supporters within the stadium. Nobody wants to see that. "However, I am equally concerned at the fact that our football club came and made representation to UEFA and Unirea a few weeks ago to organise the arrangements for the game.

"We asked for four turnstiles to be made open. And yet our fans turn up tonight and only two turnstiles are open.

"With that being the case there was a surge from the fans to try to get into the game on time, and CS gas was sprayed into their faces as they tried to access the turnstiles.

"That therefore led to tension inside the stadium. which I find totally unacceptable and I will make representation to UEFA.

"There is no requirement whatsoever for scenes like that outside the stadium."

Bain believes the trouble kicked off at half-time when, in an effort to make room for supporters who were only just being allowed into the ground, stewards moved in to the away end to remove banners that had been draped over a section of empty seats.

Manager Walter Smith and his players were inside the dressing room at the time of the violence and were not informed of UEFA's threat to havethe game stopped.

The Rangers manager refused to make any comment after the 1-1 draw last night other than to say: "I was not aware of what was happening."

Unirea boss Dan Petrescu said: "I don't know what happened in the stadium. It was not my problem in any case."

The horrific scenes - which were broadcast across the world - come a little morethan 18 months after Rangers fans disgraced their club by going on the rampage in Manchester as Smith and his players were contesting the UEFA Cup Final.

No one from UEFA was available to comment last night at the stadium. but an announcement will be made in the next 24 hours as Rangers brace themselves for heavy punishment.



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Source : BBC Sport

Gers complaint over crowd trouble

Rangers supporters were involved in a half-time disturbance in the Steaua Stadium in Bucharest where their team drew 1-1 with Unirea Urziceni.

Martin Bain, chief executive at Ibrox, said on the club's website: "Obviously the behaviour of some of the fans inside the stadium was unacceptable."

But he described the earlier treatment by police of fans as they queued at the turnstiles as "totally unacceptable".

Uefa say the half-time incident will be part of the match delegate's report.

The game had been moved to Steaua Bucharest's stadium as Unirea's own ground, 25km away and with a 7,000 capacity, had been deemed unfit to host a Champions League tie.

But problems arose before the match as Rangers fans tried to enter the ground through just two turnstiles.

Bain said: "Rangers came to this stadium with representatives from Uefa and Unirea a number of weeks ago and arranged for the four turnstiles to be open to give access to our supporters.

"When they arrived this evening there were only two turnstiles open, which caused difficulty gaining access, and for fans then to be sprayed with CS gas is totally unacceptable.

"I will now make representation to Uefa on their behalf."

It is as yet unclear exactly what triggered the clash between a section of the visiting support and stewards at half-time.

Seats and punches were thrown by fans and television pictures showed stewards spraying tear gas at close range.

At one point the fans surged forward to recover a supporter who had been grabbed by the Romanian stewards.



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Police arrest four in swoop after East Lancashire derby violence - 05/11/2009

Source : Burnley Citizen

THIRTY police swooped on four homes as part of an investigation into an organised fight between Blackburn Rovers and Burnley fans on derby day.

The raids followed a brawl at The Station pub in Cherry Tree, in the hours after the East Lancashire derby clash.

Four arrests were made which police said were ‘the culmination of a detailed and complex investigation to identify’ those believed to be involved.

Support units, response officers and search teams executed the warrants on houses in Blackburn and Nelson at 8am yesterday.

The houses targeted were in Edge End Avenue, Nelson, and Shadsworth Road, Shadsworth, Greenside Avenue, Mill Hill, and Pritchard Street, Hollin Bank, all Blackburn.

Four men aged 17, 19, 28 and 34, were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder.

Also seized during the raid at the address in Nelson were 200 ecstasy tablets.

The 19-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.

Blackburn Rovers won the derby on Sunday, October 18.

The day generally passed peacefully, with the Station pub being the only major incident.

At the time, police described it as a ‘serious planned public order incident’ and made more than 30 arrests.

Police reported bottles and glasses being thrown at officers, vehicles and horses.

Some officers suffered minor injuries and a police horse was injured by glass.

People inside the pub described chaotic scenes as a group of Burnley fans made their way from the train station into The Station, where they clashed with Rovers supporters.

The post-match disorder happened around 6.15pm.

Detective Inspector Jill Johnston said: “These arrests were the culmination of a detailed and complex investigation to identify those believed to be involved in the disorder at The Station pub last month.

“This should demonstrate our commitment to tackling people suspected of committing football related violent disorder.”

The 28-year-old man has been bailed pending further inquiries and the other three men were being questioned yesterday.

Kuwait Sports Club - Al-Kamara (Syria) - AFC Cup - 03/11/2009

Source : Arab Times

25 injured as fans clash after AFC Cup final match

Violence broke out after the Asian Football Confederation Cup final match between Kuwait Sports Club and Syria’s Al-Kamara, which left 25 supporters from both sides injured. Securitymen reportedly intervened to facilitate a peaceful event, which led to the Kuwaiti team winning the tournament. Six of the injured persons were referred to Sabah and Amiri hospitals respectively to receive treatment, 12 of them were treated at the spot by paramedics, while seven of the victims declined to receive treatment for fear cases will be registered against them at the police station. Sources said security measures were adopted to avoid further clashes between the Syrian and Kuwaiti supporters at the Sabah and Amiri hospitals.

RSC Anderlecht - FC Timisoara - 05/11/2009

Source: http://www.dhnet.be

08.06 PM : The game is stopped for a few minutes because Timisoara supporters threw flares in the pitch...

Marseille - FC Zurich - 03/11/2009

Source: mail (thanks to the sender)

Sunday night
10 Marseille vs 10 Zurich lads (25/30 years old)
FCZ lads ran away


Monday night
10/12 locals vs the same number of Zurich fans.
Locals won

Tuesday
Nothing during all the journey, several proposals to Zurich fans who refused all.
At 8.35pm, a mob of Zurich with banner and flags stopped near the stadium, local mob charged them and their mob explosed. Marseille fans followed them in about 1 kilometer, mainly with the aim to take the banner.
Police arrived and one local was arrested and released.

Marseille Youth

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Genoa - Lille OSC - 05/11/2009

Source : L'Equipe

Brawl between supporters in Genoa

Ansa press agency said a brawl erupted before this UEFA game, opposing supporters from both sides.
Six people, including 5 French, were slightly injured during fights which opposed 20 Lille fans to about sixty locals, before the game.
Hospitalized, men were wounded at their heads.

Arme with batons, italian supporters have assaulted Lille supporters near the train station.
French fans were escorted to the stadium by police and locals escaped from the scene.

Trains with jails for hooligans during South Africa World Cup - 06/11/2009

Source: http://www.sindhtoday.net/news/1/68489.htm

London, Nov 6 (ANI): Hooligans will face a tough time in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup, with long-distance trains transporting fans around the country being fitted with cells and a police station for those creating trouble.

World Cup 2010 chief executive Danny Jordaan, the visionary who won the World Cup for South Africa, said: “We will open the case against you and put you in jail on the train while you are travelling. It is the first time we have had this capability.”

The South African authorities are determined that security issues, including hooliganism, will not ruin the continent’s first World Cup next summer, The Mirror reported.

They have announced plans to have 41,000 extra policemen to ensure the safety of spectators and stamp out any prospect of crowd trouble.

“There will be police foot patrols, police on horseback, police in cars and police in 40 new helicopters that we have bought specially for the tournament,” said police spokesman Superintendent.

“It is unlikely that people will be in any danger at all because of the saturation of police officers.We will not be complacent in any way but we will treat each situation as it presents itself. We are not in the business of harassing people, though. We want this to be fun,” the paper quoted him, as saying.

He said his force was determined to be flexible in its policing and had decided to turn a blind eye to fans who are drinking alcohol outdoors, even though that is against the law here. (ANI)

Standard de Liège - Olympiakos - 04/11/2009

Source : RTBF

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Brawl near Sclessin stadium

Severe troubles occured at 7pm near the Sclessin stadium.
Police is trying to confrol troublemakers.

Standard hardcore supporters went out of their pub where they were inside.
They threw rocks and fronted police forces.

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Troubles for the game Standard-Olympiakos

Troubles opposed Standard hardcore to greek supporters, Wednesday afternoon, in the Liège city center.

Small mobs of 30 to 40 people on both sides fight each other and police intervened.
One policeman was slightly injured and one supporter was arrested but everything remained calm.

At 6.30pm new troubles occured near the Sclessin stadium.
Police used water-canon to contain troublemakers.

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Source : Mail (thanks to the sender) - Standard

Standard lads mobbed up during the beginning of the afternoon.
At 2pm a small mob walked in the city center and saw a pub full with Olympiakos fans. Belgian lads charged them but retreated as Greek totally outnumbered them and used weapons (nunchakus, knives).
One Greek lad lied on the floor when police arrived on the scene.
He was hospitalized.

At 6pm a greek mob made his way to the stadium. At this time local firm was with about 200 lads, including Hell-siders, ultras and old faces.
When locals heard Greek were so closed they tried to confront them but police, with a local of plainted-clothes OB intervened with water-canon and helicopter.
Pepper sprays and batons were used by police to calm down local lads.
No real off between both sides, except a few ultras to used their umbrellas.

Serbian police arrest suspect in fatal attack on French football fan - 05/11/2009

Source : The Canadian Press

Serbian police say they have arrested a suspect in the fatal attack on a French football fan in a Belgrade cafe two months ago.

Police say 31-year-old Stepa Petrovic from Belgrade is suspected of "taking part in first-degree murder of French citizen" Brice Taton.

Taton was among a group of Toulouse fans who were attacked by Partizan Belgrade hooligans before a Europa League match between the teams in September.

Taton was badly injured in the attack and died several days later in a Belgrade hospital.

Serbian authorities have arrested 10 suspects in the attack and moved to ban violent football groups.

Black Cats fans have launched an online petition - 06/11/2009

Source : Northern Echo

SUNDERLAND chairman Niall Quinn is being urged to lift a match ban on fans arrested after an incident with police.

Black Cats fans have launched an online petition that within hours attracted more than 300 signatures after the club banned at least 15 fans, including season ticket- holders, pending the outcome of investigations.

They were involved in an incident at Newcastle central railway station on Saturday, August 8, as Sunderland fans returned from a friendly in Edinburgh.

Four fans were injured from alleged police baton blows or bites from unmuzzled police dogs.

Forty-four people were arrested, some following press appeals in which their photographs were published, but no one has been charged.

Police maintained fans attacked their dogs, although they later said that none was injured. Fans maintained policing methods led to the trouble and that they were not the aggressors.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission’s initial investigation found no police wrongdoing. The Football Supporters’ Federation said some fans have received letters from the club banning them from matches until matters are resolved.

Federation chairman Dr Malcolm Clarke said: “Sunderland’s chairman has an excellent reputation as a man who truly values his team’s supporters, and if he can’t see that this policy is deplorable, then we might as well all just give up and go home.”

He said the federation was looking at whether the club was breaching its ticket terms and conditions.

Sunderland chief executive Steve Walton said the club did not tolerate anti-social behaviour, and added: “It is club policy to temporarily suspend season tickets or ban match to match attenders from the stadium in the event they have been arrested and are on bail or if they have charged with an offence, until the results of such an investigation or court action has been concluded.”

Police said no one had yet been charged and investigations were ongoing.

FC Partizan - Club Brugge - UEFA Europa League - 05/11/2009

Source: izaberipartizan.com