Rangers and Celtic of Glasgow are renowned for their historic enmity; yet the most notorious football riot of the pre-World War One days in Britain saw the two sets of fans united in a pitch invasion at the 1909 Scottish Cup Final.
That riot at Hampden Park was one sparked by frustration, as supporters of [...]
Football-related violence in Italy and Argentina has hit the headlines many times in 2007. Reuters reports that Milan fans have been banned from Genoa’s stadium this weekend, as reprisals for violence that took place over ten years ago are feared:
AC Milan fans will be banned from attending Sunday’s Serie A opener at promoted [...]
Earlier this week UEFA finally took action against Partizan Belgrade, expelling the club from the UEFA Cup after rioting in Mostar that left 36 injured. They had won their tie against Zrinjski 11-1 on aggregate, a result now entirely academic. It’s about time: as Pietro Paulo Virdis noted in the comments previously, it’s the [...]
Pitchinvasion.net contributer Sam Kelly, writing on his own outstanding blog about Argentinian football, brings us some disturbing news as a leading member of River Plate’s leading barra brava (hooligan gang) was possibly shot by a member of a rival barra brava of the same club. Sam’s description reads more like something out of Godfather [...]
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Following on the heels of recent trouble in the Intertoto Cup, last night saw serious trouble at a UEFA Cup first qualifying round match between Bosnia’s Zrinjski Mostar and Serbia’s Partizan Belgrade (see video below).
Play was held up for ten minutes early in the first half in Mostar after rival fans clashed with riot police [...]
For their behaviour in the video below, Legia Warsaw fans have managed to get their club expelled from the Intertoto Cup, as Soccernet reports.
UEFA officials abandoned the second-round match in Vilnius after fans of the Polish club clashed with police and fired numerous missiles onto the pitch.
FK Vetra had been winning 2-0 when the [...]
The videos that ultra groups put up on youtube seem to be recruitment drive vehicles these days, so smoothly are they put together. And they’re always accompanied by some bloody terrible techno music.
Still, these Ajax fans can’t half put on a tifo display and for some odd reason, they always seem to be around when [...]
The Bad Blue Boys of the Croatian team Dinamo Zagreb are rather infamous in European ultras circles, and will be the subject of several posts on pitchinvasion.net in the coming weeks. After all, how many supporter groups can claim to have been part of the start of a war? For the Bad Blue [...]
