31st
October 1999
30 lads from Brescia together with some Cesena hools attended this match, they made troubles during the game and threw some rockets at Pescara in the near side.
After the game, a lot of Pescara ultras (Bad Boys) looked for a revenge and tried to take the Brescia firm out of the terrace, they weren't able to reach them because the police charged their mob, Bad Boys threw stones at the police and burned some dustbins ...
30th
October 1999
A 17 year old fan was killed by a flare thrown from the terraces as rival Red Star and Partizan supporters rioted after a violent Belgrade derby.
About 50 BCF gathered in Hasselt and made there way to Genk from there. Only 20 Bruges lads had tickets for the visitors-section, all the others had tickets for home fans section. When the Bruges boys tried to enter the Genk-stand (block Q), they were spotted by BOB and they were escorted into the visitors section of the ground. During the game nothing happened until 15 minutes before the end of the game when the BCF started to fight with security-team that had entered their section. Bruges went 1-0 down with 5 minutes to go all which led to the Bruges fans causing even more trouble in the visitors section. The local police had to use teargas to force the Bruges lads back. But the Bruges mob managed to open a gate and made a charge at the police and the security-team. At that point mounted police made a charge and they forced the Bruges boys back. During these fights 2 policemen and several Bruges lads were injured, and 3 Bruges lads were arrested. The Bruges fans were kept inside the carpark behind the visitors-stand for about 1 hour after the end of the game.
Before the game, the rival fans clashed in the streets around the stadium. The police were taken by surprise, but after a few minutes of fighting, the CRS arrested 15 fans. 40 other fans were left injured.
2 fans of Juve were innjured by ASR hools with knives, this aggression happened after the match. At the end of the match some ASR came form theirr side to the Juve side and stole a banner from Juve Club (not ultras), the police arrived and arrested them.
After the match fights broke out between ASR and the police, the Juve fans were kept in their side till 24:00 (the match stopped at 22:30!!!) because the police were on the streets fighting with the ASR hools who wanted to wait for Juve support.
Fights between police and Boys Varese, they looked for some Como hools, when they saw them they tried to fight but police stopped them with lacrymatories gas! At the end of the match police had to fight with 200 hools from Como who wanted to take on the Varese mob.
Como and Varese hools are great enemies, their match has always been very "hot"!
GSF Ultras from Salerno were put into the side of Napoli hools (curva A), Napoli were put on the near side which made them very angry and they started trouble. They threw some rockets into the GSF part of the ground, the police arrived and fought with Napoli, which resulted in a big riot! At the end of the match Napoli clashed with police resulting in a lot of police being injured after they were hit by missiles!
Now the hools from Napoli are being targetd by the police, many Napoli were arrested and many others are wanted by police, also for the fights at Genoa-Verona (the last game of the last season), Napoli and Genoa have a hooligan friendship so Napoli came to help their friends versus the hated hools from Verona (enemies of Napoli and Genoa), the police took a lot of photos and used them to target many hools from Genoa and Napoli, who cannot go to the stadium for a long time now...
50+ Burnley clash with Millwall at London Bridge station. Burnley eventually get the upper hand due to having the most numbers and force Millwall back, 2 or 3 minutes of fighting takes place before more police arrive to disperse the two rival groups and escort the Burnley lads on to their respective train.
Chelsea have been find £4050 for the improper conduct of their fans at the Champions League game with Galatasaray.
England were fined the same amount for supporters' behaviour by UEFA after the match against Poland.
PSG fans fight with police after their sides 2-0 defeat at home against rivals Marseille. PSG fans also attempt to attack the travelling Marseille fans after the match.
8th
October 1999
18 fans were jailed after appearing in court in Den Bosch, Holland for their involvment in violence before, during and after Rangers Champions League match against PSV in Eindhoven on the 28th September. The fans were all from Scotland and were supposedly known to Police in Scotland as known hooligans. The fans were not all followers of Rangers as some were believed to be Casuals from other Scottish sides including Hibs, Hearts and Falkirk. The 18 were all jailed from between 2-4 weeks.
The Anderlecht lads gathered at their regular meeting point, the Saint-Guidon, with a hardcore of 100-150. After a while the mob began to move, after they heard the Beerschot crew had arrived in Anderlecht. They were 200 strong, and had already attacked busses carrying genuine Anderlecht fans to the match (not hooligans), at a motoray service station. Nothing happened during the game. After the game a mob of 50-70 K4 began searching for the Beerschot crew, but were blocked everytime by BOB and the Gendarms. The Beerschot crew also had the same problem with the police, so a confrontation didn't occur.
3rd
October 1999
One fan from Milan hurt with a knife after the game, a car was burned out by Lazio Army and some fights took place with the police who were escorting the Milan group out of the city.
3rd
October 1999
After the game Diósgyör fans put in the window of a car of Fradi fans. Afterwards about 80 Ferencváros hools went into the city and attacked DFC fans. The police tried to split up the
group. Now an FTC hool groups of about 10-15 went searching for Diósgyör fans. One group met about 80 DFC ultras/hools of whom some were armed with iron-batons. The Fradi hools attacked and the fans of the homeside had to retreat. A good result for the 10-15 Ferencváros hools.
3rd
October 1999
Around 100 Ajax F-Side fans made the journey to Tilburg without useing the 'combi'-busses (wich is not allowed in Holland, you can get a stadium ban for not taking the 'combi' bus). Some of theF-Side had tickets, some had forged tickets and some had no tickets at all. Before the match the group ran into some Willem II King-Siders and scuffles broke out. Some of the group managed to get inside the stadium (after a confrontation with the police). During the game there was more fighting. The day ended in 11 arrests.
3rd
October 1999
Seven PAOK Salonika fans died and 26 were hurt when the bus taking them from a game in Athens collided with a lorry and went down a slope.
29th
September 1999
Hools of the homeside threw missiles onto the pitch and spat on an injured player. The assistant-trainer of Teplice was wounded during the missile throwing.
28th
September 1999
Fifteen Rangers fans face jail in Holland following violence before and after this Champions League match. In one incident 30 Rangers Casuals clashed with 200 PSV fans outisde the Philips Stadium. Dutch riot police broke up the fighting with several people injured. A total of 35 Rangers fans were arrested but 20 were released without charge.
September
1999
60 Bruges lads who were arrested at the Genk-Bruges game last season appear in court and were given a 18 months stadiom bans and a fined 30.000 BEF each.
26th
September 1999
Many ultras from Pisa were arrested in the days before the match, the firm from Livorno came very strong and destroyed several cars and shops in the city. In the stadium they stormed a segregation fence and run at some Pisa hools standing in the near side, resulting in some minutes of violent fighting. After the match some fans from Livorno were beaten by Pisa hools, one of them lost his scooter which was stolen by a Pisa hool.
Dordtrecht goalkeeper Johann van der Werff was hit by a firework thrown by a NAC fan.
25th
September 1999
After the game around 20 K4 lads (Anderlecht) went to the gas station, where Lokeren and Anderlecht fans came together. They saw some 40 Westsiders coming and immediately attacked. During the short confrontation, the K4 lads gave a good account of themselves, but the Lokeren crew were dispersed by the police. One Anderlecht Hool and four Lokeren lads were arrested.
24th
September 1999
A new law cracking down on football hooliganism is due to come into effect next week.
The Football (Offences and Disorder) Act aims to prevent soccer thugs from travelling abroad and from attending domestic matches.
The biggest change under the new act, which pulls together and extends various pieces of existing legislation, will be a broader definition of a football-related crime.
Any offence committed by a fan within 24 hours either side of a game, and in its general vicinity, will be considered as such. Abusive chanting (at the moment, two or more must be involved), inciting crime. There will also be new penalties for an individual taking part in racist and and ticket touting.
Courts will be empowered to confiscate the passports of any convicted hooligans up to five days before an international match, to stop them travelling abroad.
International banning orders will be extended to last for up to 10 years.
Hooligans could also be banned from attending all domestic league, cup and international games for three years.
The UK government is keen to enhance the reputation of the game, as part of its campaign to bring the World Cup to the UK in 2006. Last month, new figures showed a rise in football hooliganism in the UK for the first time in six years.
Arrests for football-related offences in England and Wales increased to 3,341 during the 1998/9 season, compared with 3,307 for the previous season.
12th
September 1999
Fights in the AS Roma side between ASR supporters ended with a change of leadership in the side. Cucs don't exist anymore, the new leaders are spread amongst the groups: AS Roma Ultras, Boys, Opposta Fazione and SAG, they are hooligans, very dangerous, many of them use knives and bombs, they are nazis and many of them are skinheads or casuals with nationalist ideas.
12th
September 1999
This high risk match is postponed. Originally the Mayor of Brugge had banned visiting fans hence Anderlecht had not been given any tickets, but problems started when it bacame obvious that hundreds of Anderlecht fans would still be travelling to Brugge looking for trouble, even more worringly for the authorities was the reports that Anderlecht fans had obtained tickets for Brugge sections of the ground and trouble was likely to occur in the ground as well as outside, therefor the decision was taken to postpone the match.
11th
September 1999
Liverpool - manchester united
BBC News story from
14th September
UK Police 'beat
bystanders' after match
An independent inquiry
has been launched into claims that police used excessive violence during
clashes with soccer fans.
Officers in riot gear were called into Liverpool city centre on Saturday
after fighting broke out among Liverpool and Manchester United fans.
Merseyside Police has received complaints that officers were heavy-handed
and hit out with batons at innocent bystanders.
Five people were charged after the clashes and two police officers were
injured.
Chief Constable Norman Bettison has referred the case to the independent
Police Complaints Authority, which will appoint an officer from an outside
force to conduct an inquiry.
'Outrageous' police action
The investigation will centre on the actions of the force's Operational
Support Group, which acted on orders to clear four city centre pubs after
the trouble broke out.
Solicitor Rex
Makin, representing some members of the public who claim they were victims
of police violence, said some of the police action was "quite outrageous".
The match, which Liverpool lost 3-2, had been moved to an 1130 BST kick-off
and a major police operation was mounted to prevent trouble. Police said
the vast majority of Manchester United fans had left the city by the time
the trouble flared at around 1830 BST.
11th
September 1999
The mayor of Beveren called off Saturday's first division match between Beveren and Westerlo after he had been told a small group of people planned to disrupt the game.
11th
September 1999
A group of 40 Dordrecht fans forced their way into the stadium in Velzen. The group were armed with iron bars and planks of wood and attacked Telstar fans. The police were taken by surprise by the arrival and actions of the Dordrecht fans and only took action once reinforcements had arrived. The group of Dordrecht fans were driven out of the stadium and heavy policeing prevented any further trouble.
11th
September 1999
Police forced a group of NAC-fans to stop and arrested 13 fans on the motorway to Top. There were 20 NAC fans in the main stand at the game and when NAC took the lead after 2 minutes they were attacked by Top-fans. Five NAC fans were arrested for violence.
10th
September 1999
Police arrested 27 Feyenoord fans who were returning from their match against Ajax (2-2 draw). The 27 were arrested for wrecking a carraige on the train taking them back from the match. The police found 4 fans with false gold cards which Feyenoord give to loyal fans for purchasing tickets for away matches.
9th
September 1999
Fans of Italian club Lazio plan to stage a silent protest during their Serie A game against Torino in protest to what they see as exploitation of their loyalty to the club.
Lazio supporters are angry over the cost of the club's organised travel scheme to away games and are also unhappy over a decision to sell the television rights to their Champions League games to pay-per-view channel Telepiu.
Lazio's ultras, the club's hardcore supporters, say they will take their place in their traditional home in the Olympic Stadium's Curva Nord for the Torino match on September 19, but will remain silent and will not show their usual support.
Relations between Lazio President Cragnotti and the fans appear to have soured in recent weeks. For the European Super Cup match with Manchester United in Monaco, Lazio were given 3,000 tickets from UEFA but Corriere dello Sport says that only 600 were sold by the club direct to the public, with the remaining tickets sold as a package through a travel agency contracted to Lazio. Lazio fans are also furious at a late decision that they will have to pay to watch their team's Champions League games.
Italian television company Mediaset, controlled by AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi, purchased the rights to Champions League games from UEFA earlier this year, but on Wednesday, Mediaset said it had sold the rights for Lazio games to subscription channel Telepiu, less than a week before the start of the Champions league. AC Milan and Fiorentina supporters will be able to watch their teams for nothing, Lazio fans will need to fork out for a decoder and a subscription to Telepiu. The Lazio ultras have asked for a meeting with Cragnotti but he has yet to respond.
8th
September 1999
5 England fans were arrested after fighting in the city centre before the match. During the game the two sets of fans threw missiles at each other. The trouble was started 10 minutes in to the second half by Polish fans throwing lighted flares into the England section. England fans retaliated by charging towards the Polish stand and throwing missiles at the Polish. Riot police were called to restore order. Before the match Polish and English fans fought battles in a parkland play area. One England fan received serious stab wounds, as rival fans threw bottles and bricks.
7th
September 1999
Four
England fans were arrested and another 3 were injured after rival supporters
clashed on the eve of the Euro 2000 qualifier between Poland and England.
Violence erupted in the centre of the capital when a large gang of Polish
attacked England fans drinking in a bar. They came running round a corner
and hurled bottles and other missiles at the English who returned fire.
The incident lasted a few minutes before police arrived and the Poles dispersed.
Trouble flared again later when England fans tried to break out of the area
where they were being held by riot police, more police arrived to finally
quell the situation.2nd
September 1999
The trial of 4 Germans accused of attacking a French policeman and almost killing him during the 1998 World Cup finals again failed to make progress on Thursday when the judge said he could not get the name of a key witness, the Judge Rudolf Esders had hoped to bring an eyewitness who told police at the time that one of the four defendants had hit Gendarme Daniel Nivel repeatedly on the head with part of the officer's teargas launcher. Gendarme Nivel, was attacked in a side street outside the Lens stadium in northern France after a World Cup tie between Germany and Yugoslavia on June 21 last year.
Nivel was in a coma for six weeks and suffered irreversible brain damage and he still has difficulties moving and speaking and cannot remember what happened.
Judge Esders said local police were refusing to reveal the identity of the witness as under German law, witnesses can remain anonymous during a police investigation.
The 4 German fans on trial are Andre Zawacki, 28, Christopher Rauch, 23, Tobias Arno Reifschlaeger, 24, and Frank Renger, 31. Reifschlaeger and Renger have both admitted to kicking Nivel when he was lying on the ground. Rauch has so far remained silent. The trial, which started on April 30, was due to end on Thursday but has been extended. It will resume on October 1 in Essen, Germany.
24th
August 1999
Trouble broke out amongst West Ham fans after a Metz fan threw a fire cracker into their section. West Ham fans tried to break down fencing to attack Metz fans and stewards had to turn fire extinguishers on them until the CRS turned up to restore order. There was also minor incidents in the streets outside the ground involving West Ham fans.
22nd
August 1999
Brugge had a big mob out for this high risk game. At kick off time the Brugge mob headed towards the ground where the visiting mob were hanging around. The police were well on top of the situation, so the Brugge lads tried to attack the visitors section by breaking through a gate, but police with dogs and mounted police forced the Brugge lads back from the visiting support. The police arrested 25 Den Haag lads who had come through for this game.
22nd
August 1999
Large scale disorder broke out at Holloway Tube Station. Clashes also broke out after the game in the streets around the stadium and a number of scuffles occurred at the coach park. Police said trouble would have been worse but they had been monitoring two very organised groups of rival fans and preventing them clashing with each other
15th
August 1999
St Etienne fans started trouble with police before this high risk match and during the game they fired flares at the Marseille fans. There were a number of arrests among the 2000 travelling St. Etienne support.
7th
August 1999
Police in riot gear were called to restore order after riot broke out in the streets between rival fans, after a gang of 300 Millwall arrived in the city centre. Police believed the trouble was organised and fans had made contact with each other through an Internet Web site. A number of men in the early 20's were arrested for public order offences.
An
inquiry is to be held into violent clashes between rival fans on the opening
day of the football season. Hooligan supporters terrorised Cardiff city
centre in riots between rival. Riot police with dogs moved into the Welsh
capital as Cardiff City and Millwall football supporters fought on the
streets.
Cardiff City football club
is now to hold its own inquiry into the violence, which broke out just
days after a report by the National Criminal Intelligence Service highlighted
the dangers posed by organised gangs using the Internet.
The
clashes in Cardiff were the latest in a series of violent incidents between
the two sets of fans.
But rather than being a spontaneous
outburst in the heat of the moment, they appear to have been pre-arranged
over the telephone and the Internet since the opening-day fixtures were
announced several weeks ago.
During violent clashes, fans
hurled glasses and chairs in the city's "café quarter" before mounted
police with dogs rushed into the area.
In Cardiff, café and
shop-owners locked themselves in for more than two hours until the trouble
subsided.
Taxi companies withdrew their
cabs after bottles were hurled at cars.
Hundreds of families were in
the city centre for the annual Lord Mayor's Parade and the Big Weekend
music festival as fans clashed in the main shopping area.
Up to 300 Millwall fans gathered
in the "café quarter" when rival Cardiff fans arrived and fighting
broke out.
Two people were arrested for
public order offences and several were treated for minor injuries. There
was no damage to shops or restaurants.
Safety fears led to sports
reporter Rob Phillips being forced to leave the grandstand during his
live commentary on the game for BBC Radio Wales.
He
reported seeing one person being taken away by stretcher and another with
blood pouring from a head wound.
Millwall fans were also described
by the reporter as "very angry" as they remonstrated with officials after
being prevented from leaving the ground after the game.
Chairman of Cardiff City Steve
Borley said the trouble was disgraceful.
"Football is the loser," he
said.
"It's too early to say what
went wrong, but we need to sit down with the police and to see what went
wrong.
"Something has gone wrong and
it's put families at risk. We never want to see scenes like this again."
1st
August 1999
The number of people arrested for football hooliganism has risen for the first time in six years, according to latest figures. They were published on the day that a missile cracked the windscreen of the Leeds United team coach in Sutton Coldfield as it made its way to a pre-season friendly match against Birmingham City.
Arrests for football-related offences in England and Wales increased to 3,341 during the 1998/9 season, compared with 3,307 for the previous season.
Bryan Drew, head of strategic and specialist intelligence at the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), said: "Last season the ugly face of football hooliganism made a small but very unwelcome return. The numbers of people involved do remain comparatively small but, far from being mindless, they are both well organised and adept at exploiting spontaneous situations."
Arrests for violent disorder rose from 52 in 1997/8 to 100 last season, those for threatening behaviour increased from 312 to 322, affray from 65 to 69 and assault from 110 to 133. Racial and indecent chanting arrests fell from 33 to 25 over the same period.
Mr Drew said: "Away from the grounds and with activities planned and communicated using mobile phones, pagers and the Internet, the hooligans remain a menace.
"Many continue to use football matches as a cover for other criminal activities."
He added that the problem was different to that of the "mass outbreaks of violence seen in the 70s and early 80s" due to the effectiveness of CCTV, all-seater stadiums and the high number of season ticket holders.
He backed attempts by Simon Burns MP to get his Football (Offences and Disorder Act) into law, which would see extended bans from domestic and international matches for convicted hooligans. In some cases, passports would be confiscated.
"This important piece of legislation is designed to restrict further the criminal activities of the few, both at home and abroad and will allow decent supporters to continue to enjoy the game," said Mr Drew. The English football season gets underway on Sunday with the Charity Shield, followed by the first Premiership matches the following Saturday.
31st
July 1999
This game was abandoned after 74 minutes after trouble broke out between the rival Dutch and German groups. A number of fans were injured during the disturbances.
28th
July 1999
Surprisingly
only 20 odd Brugge lads made the trip to this game by bus to Eschnede. Almost
an hour before kick off the Brugge lads arrived at the stadium car park
and parked their bus and met some more lads bringing their number to about
25 (including 2 Den Haag). The Brugge lads were leaving the car park when
the Twente mob numbering bout 40 made an appearance and trouble broke out.
The Twente mob were armed with weapons thus eventually forcing the Brugge
lads to back off towards the visitors section of the ground, and leaving
some of the Brugge lads with minor injuries. During the trouble 3 Twente
fans were stabbed by the Dan Haag hools and another fan was shot in the
leg by police.