Why does racism persist as such a serious problem in Italian football? Our Rome-based writer, Vanda Wilcox, considers its context in Italian society and looks at possible solutions.
Hasta El Gol Siempre’s Sam Kelly looks at a judgement that might finally mean Argentina’s battle against football violence is headed in the right direction.
Friday saw the culmination of a legal case that had been ongoing for exactly twenty-two months in Santa Fe, the capital city of the province of the same name in Argentina. […]
As we look forward to Euro 2008, we shouldn’t be fooled that domestic Swiss football runs like clockwork. Joe Westhead explores the game there from the passion of the Zurich derby to tragedy in the “Disgrace of Basel”.
Derby Day
It’s never just a game. It’s never just three points.
Grasshoppers Club Zürich are not having […]
Yesterday, we reported that after fans of Serbia’s Red Star Belgrade uncovered a policeman covertly filming them in the stands, they responded by attacking him with flares. His clothes were set on fire, he was beaten with chairs, and he was left badly burned and bruised.
Some fans are pointing out that he did not help […]
Serious trouble erupted in Serbia and Greece this weekend.
As Red Star Belgrade took on Hajduk Kula in the Serbian first division, a policeman was seriously injured after fans spotted him filming them in plain clothes.
The policeman (right) fired two shots into the air after he had been hit with burning flares, his clothes setting on […]
Turnstiles, barrels, chairs — all hurled by fans onto the pitch over a tall gate as all hell broke loose when Costa Rica’s Alajuelense took on Guatemala’s Municipal in the UNCAF (Central American) Cup’s third place consolation game at the Morena Soto stadium. Hexagonal Blog described the scene live last Tuesday:
The players of both teams, […]
Once upon a time, the last thing any country hosting the a major championship wanted was for England to qualify.
At Italia 1990, England were stationed on the island of Sardinia, with suspicions raised that FIFA had fixed the seedings to ensure the “English disease” of hooliganism was quarantined from the Italian mainland. As Mathew Engel […]
Photo credit: Hugo* on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
In the second of our photo series this week on the 2006 World Cup, here’s the unpleasant side of “celebration” from the night France beat Brazil 1-0 in the quarter finals.
The photographer explains:
Paris took to the streets to celebrate, invading the whole Champs-Elysées. Unfortunately, things […]
It’s never good when a football stadium looks more like a warzone. On Saturday, the Marele Derby (Great Derby) between Steaua Bucharest and Dinamo Bucharest in Romania descended into chaos as the game was interrupted three times when fans of both teams fired flares at each other, and lobbed smoke bombs onto the pitch.
The […]
