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 […]
Gabriele Sandri, a well-known DJ from Rome and a Lazio supporter, was shot dead by the police this morning at a gas station in Badia al Pino, Arezzo. This followed an incident in which a group of Lazio ultras had attacked Juventus fans in their cars, the latter appealing for help from passing police; the […]
As mentioned before, I moonlight (as if this were a paying job itself!) for the Chicago Sports Weekly. My column there this week is on the prospects for hooliganism in American soccer.
The piece was prompted by the new book from British ex-hooligan Dougie Brimson (known to frequent these parts himself), March of the Hooligans, […]
Leeds. Millwall. Trouble. Surprising? Not really, is it? Still, the only published report I can find about it from this weekend’s visit of Millwall to Leeds’ Elland Road ground seems desperate to sensationalise events.
Trouble flared at about 2.15pm on Saturday as three busloads of away fans pulled up near the Billy Bremner statue […]
According to the Moscow Times, “Sixty-three football fans aged 13 to 16 were briefly detained last weekend amid drunken clashes that left a dark-skinned man dead and two others injured.” The dead man was Sergei Nikolayev, from Siberia.
The violence came after Spartak Moscow’s win over FK Moscow, but far from the stadium, and the catalyst […]
The England-Russia game is kicking off right now — the Chinese commentary I’ve got for it on Sopcast is proving more entertaining than John Motson and Trevor Brooking ever were on the BBC — but I thought I’d pass on the unsurprising news that several England fans were “beaten up” in Russia.
A spokesman said two […]
The Booing of Frank Lampard is, according to Reuters Soccer Blog (generally a great blog, by the way), a reflection of the worst of English culture over the past several hundred years. Mr. Frank Lampard, the Victim, has been randomly selected by England fans to be the subject of bizarre and unjustified criticism.
The case against […]
I should have attended the Illinois State Cup Final at the home of the Chicago Fire, Toyota Park, last Friday:
CHICAGO — A football game between Croat and Serb expatriates in Chicago was interrupted when Serb and Albanian fans started a fight.
The Sunday match between Croat Adria and United Serbs teams was stopped in the […]
Throw a freaking firecracker towards the pitch and get the match abandoned early when you’re losing 1-0 to the Netherlands. Nice one, Albanian fans. Video below.
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Perhaps the best commentary I’ve read about this deplorable incident comes in this blog from New York’s Staten Island Advance, who concludes that the power […]
