As we end this week’s look at Serbian football, it’s appropriate to finish with this shot of flares littering the pitch at Red Star Belgrade’s Marakana stadium, as this series was sparked (pun intended) by the attack on a policeman with flares there last weekend.
Photo credit: JonHall on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
Thanks to the photos of Jon Hall on Flickr, we bring you the first ever Pitch Invasion scarf battle from Serbia. It’s “the eternal derby” in Belgrade, 24th February 2007 .
First, Red Star Belgrade fans:
Another superb shot by Jon Hall of the North End of the Marakana, home of Red Star’s fiercest supporters.
Photo credit: JonHall on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool. The photographer is also responsible for terraceimages.com, a site I highly recommend stopping by.
Given I’ve unilaterally declared Serbian football to be in crisis, after a policeman was burned with flares at a Red Star game along with several other problems this week, I thought we’d look at Serbian football this week.
And why not start fittingly with Red Star fans, and their love of pyrotechnics? From their derby […]
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 […]
Who wants a “war criminal” running their club? Not Celtic supporters, as the BBC reports.
Celtic’s new chairman John Reid has been branded “a war criminal” over his role in the Iraq conflict - during the club’s annual general meeting.
Dr Reid, 60, was a senior member of the cabinet at the time of the invasion […]
Yesterday, we took a look at Vojvodina Vozdovac fans in the Serbian Cup Final against the more well known Red Star. Today we take a peek at who they were up against — some of the most intense fans in Europe, as this greatest hits video shows. Please, for your own aural health, mute the […]
You might well never have heard of Serbia’s Vojvodina Vozdovac, who surprisingly appeared in the first ever Serbian Cup final against Red Star this year. And they lost 2-0 to the much better known team.
Still, their 2000 fans — particularly the “Red Firm 1989″ group — had a hell of a day out, as this […]
