23rd
December 1999
A Belgian court has cautioned a group of hooligans who police feared were preparing to disrupt next year's European soccer championship in Belgium and the Netherlands. The court in Charleroi, venue for the Group A match next summer between reigning champions Germany and England, found the so-called "Wallons' boys" guilty of forming a criminal organisation, Le Soir newspaper reported on Thursday. The paper said the Wallons' boys, believed to be responsible for a number of clashes at matches of first division Charleroi between 1996 and 1998, had not been active for some time.
19th
December 1999
FIORENTINA - JUVENTUS
Fights break out at
the arrival of the Juve mobs escort. Clashes with the police break out
with 3 Juve fans injured and 1 policeman. At half time there was more
fighting between ultras of juve, 2 mobs involved. At the end of match
around 100 Viola hools waited near the Juve hools bus, but the police
tried to move on the the Viola hools, there then ended up with a running
battle with police and the Viola hools.
19th
December 1999
During the game a banger wounded Belardi, goalkeeper of the Reggina team, just after the second goal of his team. The banger was thrown from the special part of the terrace where Milanese ultras were packed. The banger wounded Belardi'sh leg, though the goalkeeper played the rest of the game.
19th
December 1999
Feyenoord's 4-3 away victory was halted for 12 minutes after their fans provoked Utrecht supporters. Utrecht police stepped in and calmed the crowd.
18th
December 1999
Marseille - Lens
Riot police clashed
with Marseille fans after an injury-time 2-1 defeat by Racing Lens sparked
a pitch invasion. Lens players rushed to the dressing rooms at Marseille's
stade Velodrome when home fans reacted angrily to Frank Queudrue's late
winner, storming the pitch as the referee blew the final whistle. Marseille
had taken a 1-0 lead in the French first division game before slipping
to their third defeat in succession. Incidents occured outside the stadium
also, where the CRS had to use teargas to disperse Marseille fans. The
Marseille players had to be given police protection away from the stadium.
Marseille fans
among the 25,000 crowd had maintained a sullen silence during Saturday's
game in response to two heavy defeats, against St Etienne in the league
and Feyenoord in the Champions League. Last week's 5-1 defeat at St Etienne
was halted for 10 minutes when Marseille fans tore up seats and hurled
them onto the pitch.
14th
December 1999
fenerbache fans attack goalkeeper
Angry fans punched
and kicked Turkey's national goalkeeper Rustu Recber after Fenerbache
were knocked out of the Turkich Cup by lowly Pendikspor.
Pendikspor beat
the wealthy Istanbul side 2-1 to the fury of a group of fans who besieged
Fenerbache's ground for hours, threatening players inside.
Captain Recber recieved the worst of the treatment when fans opened the
doors of his car as it left the complex and kicked and punched the keeper
before the police arrived.
12th
December 1999
Incidents occured in the S. Maria Novella station of Firenze between ultras from Fiorentina going to Roma where their team played against Lazio, and ultras from Rome, waiting for their train for Bologna. During these riots an ultra (21 years old) from Fiorentina was arrested, 5 others identificated, 2 boys from Roma were wounded and an officer from the Polfer (italian railways) was wounded too.
12th
December 1999
Riots in Moscow
The football season
is already over but the rivalry of the Moscow top firms certainly hasn't
ended. On the 12 of december CSKA's top firm - Red-Blue Warriors was planning
to have a party in one of the Moscow clubs in the southern part of the
city. About 300 CSKA hools gathered at this party. At around 7 PM (when
everything was just starting) about 70 Spartak Moscow lads arrived at
the club to "congratulate" horses (CSKA fans) with their party. This event
was also a kind of revenge for the action of the CSKA lads, when they
came to the railway station to see the Spartak fans off, leaving for Prague
(then there were about 70 CSKA lads and only 30 Spartak). This time 70
Spartak hools, representatives of the Spartak's top firms, crashed everything
and everyone near the entrance to the club. All the windows of the club
were broken with bottles. Many CSKA fans were seriously wounded during
the fights (some leaders of the CSKA fan-movement were hardly beaten)
and taken to hospitals. After about 5-7 minutes of riots Spartak casuals
went away, because all CSKA lads which had been at the entrance of the
club were already beaten and lying on the ground with their heads in blood,
and those who were coming out of the club - there were too many of them.
That's a very sad ending of the season for the CSKA lads - they didn't
cause any really great riots (besides Ramneskoe, but the first guys who
caused troubles in this town were Spartak casuals). Again Spartak Moscow
hools - top hools in Russia - showed their real power and punished CSKA
lads for their silly mistakes.
Report by Y
8th
December 1999
POLICE say there were eight arrests before the game between Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers at Ewood Park last night. Pub landlords had been warned to close for the evening and police feared violence could break out before the grudge match. Patrols were stepped up in the town centre and the Ewood area and there was some minor trouble at the Moorings pub in Infirmary.
8th
December 1999
ajax match off
The Twente Enschede-Ajax Dutch
League game this weekend has been called off by the local mayor because
of potential crowd trouble.
Ajax fans were expected
to object to a Dutch Soccer Union rule that visiting suporters could only
obtain tickets in organised trips.
With shops in Enschede open at the weekend and Ajax followers arriving
without tickets, the mayor decided the risk of hooliganism was too high.
4th
December 1999
Despite having only 1500 tickets Cardiff brought a mob of around 500 lads to London for the match, though most did not have tickets. Cardiff lads arrived on various trains throughout the early morning, the first arrivals were held in the 'Pride of Paddington' until the later arrivals arrived. The police then put Cardiff on the tube to Victoria, before then being put on the train to South Bermondsey. On arrival a few scuffles broke out between the police and rival fans of both sides as the Cardiff fans were escorted to the New Den
After the match police came under attack as they tried to keep Millwall and Cardiff fans separated.
Traffic around Millwall's New Den stadium in south-east London was brought to a standstill as hundreds of fans confronted police.
Traffic cones, bottles and cans were thrown at officers outside the Golden Lion pub which, like all local pubs, was shut and boarded up for the day.
A police van was pelted with stones as it travelled up Rotherhithe New Road. The vehicle was forced to make a sharp turn up a kerb in order to escape.
Despite a huge police presence, violence also erupted between fans before the game.
Around 25 arrests were made amid ugly scenes as riot police and mounted officers battled with supporters.
Disorder had been anticipated following a riot involving supporters of the two teams in the Welsh capital on the first day of the season in August. (see News from 1999/2000 Season July-October '99 News 7th August Cardiff City-Millwall for details of this one(new pics added 5th December))
A line of riot police, who had sealed off the road underneath South Bermondsey railway station, baton charged around 200 fans who were pelting them with cans, bottles and stones.
The mob moved back but held its ground a few hundred yards down the road.
The crowd, armed with bricks, stones and metal and wooden poles, then moved down the road, smashing windows along the way.
Police brought in reinforcements, including mounted officers, to try to contain the trouble.
Earlier, thousands of Millwall fans had lined the road, jeering and chanting 'we hate Cardiff' and singing 'God Save the Queen'
During the Nationwide League Division Two match, which Millwall won 2-0, large areas of the stands were shut to prevent pitch invasions.
The club's chairman Theo Paphitis also issued a plea for fans without tickets for the all-ticket game to stay away.
But the club had expected many to turn up 'intent on causing trouble'.
Riot officers were later forced to stage a second baton charge to rescue a police van which had inadvertently driven into the thick of the mob.
It was bombarded with sticks, bottles and cans by around 50 thugs.
Police, who had maintained a line further down the road, charged towards the group to help the officers in the van.
They were called into action soon afterwards to help passengers trapped on a bus on Rotherhithe New Road, which was being pelted with stones.
One bus was abandoned after windows were smashed by bricks taken taken from a garden wall demolished by thugs.
But passengers on the other vehicle had to be shepherded to safety by police.
The violence slowly began to subside later as the mob dispersed.
Police in vans drove around the area arresting individuals suspected of having been involved.
Chelsea chiarman Ken Bates has confirmed that hooligans identified in a controversial BBC TV programme have been banned from Stamford Bridge.
The programme, MacIntyre Undercover, which alleged that hooliganism is still a threat in the English game, highlighted the activities of two leading members of the Chelsea 'Headhunters' gang who were also linked to far-right political groups.
In Bates' programme notes for yesterday's Premiership match against Bradford City, Bates confirmed the ban of Andy Thain and Jason Marriner.
He said: 'Chelsea needed to carry out a thorough investigation before deciding on a decisive course of action.
'Surprisingly the BBC have been uncooperative following the screening of their programme and have so far been evasive to our requests to give us access to their unscreened material. Our original intention was to apply to the courts to obtain an exclusion order from Stamford Bridge, a breach of which is a criminal offence carrying a jail sentence.
'In the event, the police advised us that the course of action would fail.
'Being a member of the British National Party is not an offence, nor is drunken boasting. For the record, the thug who slashed the off duty police officer in the throat is serving a long jail sentence.
'Andy Frain is already the subject of an Exclusion Order and Jason Marriner has now been banned and, following discussions with the Fulham Police, we have decided to ban all individuals identified in the programme and the police have undertaken to rigorously enforce that ban.
'Chelsea does not condone or tolerate anti-social behaviour but with the current climate favouring the criminal rather than the victim, we have had to examine all the facts before taking action.'
In the undercover expose, Frain is seen boasting that he attacked an off duty police officer with a knife and slashed him across the throat. The two men are alledgadly well known to the police's specialist football intelligence unit as two of the Headhunters main faces, although Marriner, had never been convicted of any football related offence.
Millwall have announced strict measures to try and prevent crowd trouble at their Second Division home match against Cardiff on Saturday.
The match will be all-ticket and most fans will be barred from using the lower tiers of The New Den following hooliganism before and during the corresponding fixture at Ninian Park on August 7.
Fourteen people were injured on the opening day of the season and six men later charged after fans ran amok in Cardiff city centre and then clashed at the ground.
Millwall say information and intelligence gathered by them, Cardiff and the police before this weekend's match suggests that many fans intend to travel to the game without tickets solely intent on causing trouble.
Only the upper tiers of the stadium and a restricted family enclosure will be open on Saturday, while Cardiff's ticket allocation has been limited to 1,500.
A Millwall statement read: "Millwall Football Club have kept the football authorities, and in particular the Football Association, fully informed in respect of this fixture and the positive and direct steps being taken.
"However, we must acknowledge that there is inevitably a risk of problems occurring away from the ground for which it is difficult to legislate."
This derby match saw Burnley take a travelling support or around 6000 to Wigan, with about 200 lads, who settled down in the 'Moon Under the Water' pub in Wigan City Centre. A large police presence prevented any trouble and the Burnley mob is escorted to the ground. A few incidents take place inside the ground as Burnley fans try to gain entry to the Wigan stand but police restore order. After the game some Burnely lads escape their police escort and are involved in a pitched battle with a mob of Wigan lads. All kinds of weapons and missiles are used before police again restore order. Burnley lads are then put on the train home, but get off in Preston but trouble there is prevented by a heavy police presence.
Plymouth Argyle fans were involved in a pub fracas with police in Cheltenham.
Around 2,000 Argyle fans attended Cheltenham's Whaddon Road stadium, with the game delayed for 15 minutes because of crowd congestion.
After the game, which Argyle lost 2-0, around 30 Plymouth supporters, allegedly members of the hooligan group Central Element, caused damage at a pub, the Cat and Fiddle, just outside the ground.
Police allege that the yobs arranged to meet Cheltenham hooligans for a pitched battle, but the home thugs failed to turn up.
In another separate incident at the Sudeley Arms in Prestbury Road, about 100 Argyle fans tried to barricade the doors and prevent police from getting in.
In neither case were there any arrests, although police, who had been primed by informers that there was going to be trouble, escorted hooligans to their coach.
21st
November 1999
(Report by Juve Hool).
Fights with 20 Milan lads, the riot started by some Juve lads, they called Milan for action but when they came these "stupid children" had to run. The Milan hools run to our side, we saw their group and came in action, to forbid them to take our side, we had a clash and fought good!
1 of us was beaten but also some of them got hurt, at this moment the police arrived and stop the riot. 10 minutes before kickoff some Milan fans (not hooligans) who passed near our side were badley hurt by the Juve lads (not of our mob).
During the match Milan and Juve threw missiles and fires, a lot of police came in action to stop the troubles. After the match some Milan fans were beaten by some of our mob who stole their scarves.
The "Boys Varese" bus was attacked by some lads from Carrarese, they threw stones at the Varese lads bus. Varese hools got off the bus and run to them for a fight, unfortunately for them the police were near and prevented any trouble.
This FA Cup tie was held up for 30 minutes after Aldershot fans spilled onto the pitch after overcrowding in the away end. Some fans took the opportunity to throw missiles including smoke bombs onto the pitch. Also for some reason the police deploid a helicopter and took over 30 minutes to restore order.
(Report by the Brussels Casual Service).
For this game 50 K4 travelled by bus and 40 BCS went by car. During the game there was a few fights between the Brussels mob and the police. On the terraces about 50 K4/BCS fought the police after one of the Brussel lads was arrested. After the game, there was an appointment between the Brussels Casual Service and the Buffalo Casual Front. About 80 Buffalo¹s (with some guys from the Bruges Casual Firm) were waiting for us. The BCS came with a mob of 40. It was a clean fight with no cops around. We made 3 charges and each time several Buffalo¹s were
knocked down and had to run away. After 10 minutes of fighting, police intervention didn't allow any further confrontation. During this incident 3 BCS and 3 Buffalo¹s were arrested.
A total of 56 people were hurt and 39 arrested in London after trouble before and after this Euro 200 play-off match. One fan was injured after being knocked over by police horse while others were hurt during clashes between rival fans.
One incident that occured was in the Strand and Trafalgar Square a couple of hours before the match when about 50 English fans attacked a group of around 300 Scottish fans drinking at the base of the statue in Trafalgar Square, missiles were exchanged between the 2 groups before police formed a line between the rival fans.
13th
November 1999
Police arrested a total of 170 soccer fans after violence flared in Glasgow during and after England's victory in the first leg of the Euro 2000 play-off against Scotland.
Sporadic fighting and scuffles flared all over the city, the main hotspots for trouble were:
VICTORIA
Road and Dixon Avenue, where English fans attacked the Scots. There was
mayhem as a police helicopter circled overhead and dozens of officers tried
to keep the two factions apart just five minutes from kick off time.
Police eventually moved in with batons drawn to make arrests and restore order.
CATHCART Road. More than 700 English hooligans converged on the area. They were encircled and marched in line back into the centre of town away from trouble.
SALTMARKET and Gallowgate, where English hooligans tried to kick off a battle with police but were quickly swamped by the sheer numbers of the police.
MERCHANT City had several hundred England fans, without team colours, starting a pitched battle. Police were initially outnumbered as the fans ran riot.
BUCHANAN Street, which saw fans rampaging through the streets. There was sporadic fighting but police reinforcements arrived quickly to disperse them.
ARGYLE Street and Central Station, where the England fans continued wreaking mayhem and attacking several Scottish fans unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Reinforcements arrived quickly and police, wearing knife-proof vests, arrested some England casuals. A line of police horses forced them along Argyle Street.
HOPE Street, where police contained the hooligans at the corner with Argyle Street but pockets of troublemakers were dotted around the area.
The worst of the fighting was in Buchanan Street at 3.30pm where a pitched battle between English and Scottish hooligans lasted for a couple of minutes. Police were on the scene within seconds and made several arrests. Some men were searched, their names taken, and they were released while others were wrestled to the ground, handcuffed and escorted to waiting vans.
By the time police brought calm to the city centre, at around 5pm, more than 100 hooligans had been arrested. A further 23 were arrested at Hampden. Sporadic skirmishes continued throughout the city, but by then police were dealing rapidly with the trouble.
Police later formed a cordon outside Central Station to filter English supporters out of the town. Fans were escorted by police dog handlers and officers on horseback and boarded trains as Scotland fans fought running battles in the city centre with each other and rival groups of English supporters.
Prior to the match the city had been mostly peaceful, with violence only beginning from 2pm onwards in a number of pubs near the city centre. More than 2,000 officers were policing Glasgow. Ten England fans were detained the night before the match in minor incidents throughout the city.
Intelligence activity seemed unable to prevent the clashes. Police intelligence sources had said that undercover police "spotters" and teams of intelligence officers watching CCTV footage for the faces of known hooligans would prevent any violence flaring.
A total of 111 English soccer hooligans had been served with court orders forcing them to report to their local police station before the game. By 5pm last night ten people were in hospital suffering from injuries sustained during the hour and half of fighting.
Two alleged organisers of football hooliganism were arrested today after a gang of more than 20 thugs beat up a Manchester United fan, British Transport Police said.
The large group of Arsenal hooligans dragged the young United fan off a tube train and beat him up on the platform of a London underground station in north London after a league game on August 22.
After months of scouring CCTV footage from Holloway Road tube station, officers today launched a series of raids at homes in London and the Home Counties from 5am.
Further raids and arrests are expected over the next few weeks.
Police hailed the arrests as a breakthrough as it was one of the few times that organisers of violence had been caught involved in fights rather than stepping back to let others carry out the beatings.
In the increasingly organised world of football hooliganism, a hard core of criminals arrange the fighting, using bleepers and mobile telephones telling hooligans where to go.
Police said it also sent a strong message to potential troublemakers travelling to Saturday's European Championship play-off game between England and Scotland at Hampden Park.
BTP spokesman Pc Stephen Anderson said: "The organisers of the violence are not usually the ones caught up in it.
"The ones on the mobile phones provide the information to others and then step back while the minnows get involved.
"We have got more than 20 very, very bad alleged Arsenal hooligans who have picked on a particular Manchester United fan."
Arsenal hooligans, known as the Gooners - a term also used for all the club's fans -- followed Manchester United fans away from the ground at Highbury following the game which ended with a victory for the away side. They were intent on a fight and the fan was badly injured but has since recovered from the beating, police said. The arrests followed months of painstaking work identifying the culprits in an investigation codenamed Operation Barren.
The two men have been taken to a north London police station for questioning.
Acting Detective Inspector Keith Griffiths said: "We hope that these arrests send a message to those few people who may try and disrupt the football matches between England and Scotland."
The arrests come two days before the crucial first leg in Scotland and are part of the big security build-up before the game. The second tie at Wembley will be held next Wednesday.
The National Criminal Intelligence Service said 111 known English troublemakers have been ordered to report to their local police station just before kick-off. Fears have been expressed that 40 of the country's most feared hooligans were preparing to go to the game.
The men, thought to be organisers rather than "foot soldiers", intended to congregate at Carlisle tomorrow before heading into Scotland, according to reports. BTP officers will be travelling undercover with England fans by train to the game to monitor potential troublemakers.
A total of 250 English officers were also being given legal powers to work in Scotland as part of the major police presence north of the border including at Glasgow's stations, which are likely to be the focus of any possible trouble.
More than 350 transport police officers will take part in the preparations for dealing with the influx of fans and their return after the fixture.
"Our aim is to ensure a smooth flow of fans to and from the ground while ensuring that disruption to other passengers is kept to a minimum," said Superintendent Stuart Buchanan, co-ordinator of the BTP operation.
"We're not expecting trouble but we don't underestimate the opportunities for disorder either. We aim to have enough officers in the right places to deal with any eventuality.
"Our planning involves close cross-border co-operation and is an integral part of the wider policing operation throughout Scotland."
BBC1 on Wedneday night screened a documentary on alledged football hooligans, attached to the gang Chelsea Headhunters. The journalist responsible for the programme went undercover for 18 months and secretely filmed supporters of Chelsea and became friends with alledged ringleaders of the Chelsea Headhunters.
Chelsea hooligan Jason Marriner, who was secretly filmed organising fights among football thugs, has been sacked from his job at a tyre company, it was revealed today.
Marriner was exposed in the TV documentary as one of the ringleaders of the notorious Chelsea Headhunters gang linked to an upsurge in organised football violence.
Despite coming under increasing pressure to ban Marriner from the terraces, controversial
Chelsea Football Club chairman Ken Bates was refusing to comment today. The club has the right to revoke Marriner's membership which allows him to buy match day tickets, but Mr Bates has not yet decided whether to take action following the documentary broadcast last night.
There was no sign of Marriner at his address in Chelsea Close today but the owner of Hanworth Tyres, who would not give his name, said: "I'm not having him working here after what he's done. I don't need this kind of publicity. The phone hasn't stopped all morning."
9th
November 1999
Four football hooligans were today convicted of the near-fatal beating of a French police officer at last year's World Cup and were given sentences ranging from 3½ to 10 years in prison.
Andre Zawacki, 28, was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 10 years. Prosecutors accused him of causing the most serious injuries to the French officer, Daniel Nivel, by beating him on the head with a metal rod.
Tobias Reifschlaeger, 25, Frank Renger, 31, and Christopher Rauch, 24, were each convicted of causing serious bodily harm and given sentences of six, five and 3½ years, respectively.
Nivel was in court along with his wife, Lorette, and one of their two sons for the verdict.
Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 14 years for Zawacki and 6-8 years for the others, while defense attorneys requested leniency because of the defendants' inebriated state at the time of the attack.
Rauch was the only one of the four who had denied any involvement in the sidewalk attack on June 21, 1998, in Lens, France, where the German team was playing Yugoslavia.
The other three admitted participating in the beating, but not with the severity the prosecution claimed. They also apologized to Nivel's family during the trial.
Hundreds of German hooligans were in Lens for the sold-out match between Germany and Yugoslavia. Despite heavy police security, the situation became chaotic after the game ended in a 2-2 draw. As French officers sought to push back the hooligans, one group slipped into a side street where Nivel was posted with two other police.
According to the indictment, someone shouted "Get the cops," and the hooligans surrounded Nivel while the other officers fled.
The beating, which lasted only a minute, left the 44-year-old Nivel blind in one eye, speech-impaired and with difficulties concentrating, according to his lawyer, Harald Wostry, who has attended the trial.
Another German suspect, 28-year-old Markus Warnecke, was arrested in France and faces a trial there.
7th
November 1999
(Report by Juve Hool).
In the afternoon good fights between us and around 100-150 Granata lads.
We were standing out of our pub, it was about 17:00 when someone told us that they were coming. We run to them for a fight, we saw police riot with ultras Granata, we called granata and they came.
Many hools from both sides were beaten by the cops, police used lacrymatories to take us far from Toro both mobs got weapons (bars, belts and bottles), 10 minutes of total confusion.
After this time the police charged us and Granata so all stopped.
A lot of Brescia hools threw stones at the police who were escorting the lads from Bergamo. Police answered and charged Brescia to avoid further troubles...
7th
November 1999
Info on this one limited at the moment, but a number of West Ham lads mobbed up in the Chelsea Potter pub on the King's Road and headed from there to Fulham Broadway. After arriving at the ground it kicked off with rival Chelsea lads in the forecourt to the ground with the West Ham lads coming out on top. More distrubances reported in the Imperial Pub also.
6th
November 1999
(Report by the Brussels Casual Service).
With the last confrontation two years ago in their minds, the K4/BCS Mob came together in a town near Mechelen. A coach with 50 lads and some 40 BCS lads by car hit the road, direction Mechelen. The cars parked in the neighbourhood from the Racing stadium, and the 40 man mob headed towards the ground. They arrived in front of the pub of their rivals from Mechelen, but strangely no S-sider could be spotted. Sporting won the game by 2-5, and immediately after the game a mob some 100-150 lads, lead by 50 K4/BCS, headed towards the Oude Lierse Baan, where they found the KVM lads waiting. The Anderlecht Boys headed towards the Mechelen lads, but these didn't want to engage in a confrontation, although the two mobs were only separated by a meter or two. Then the gendarms entered the game and drove back the Sporting lads, and they got split into little groups. It was strange that when the gendarms set the
assault, the S-siders woke up and entered action. Anderlecht lads were surprised because they thought they had gone 15 years back in time, seeing lots of Mechelen Boys with scarves (!!!) to hide their face. Anyway, then the Mechelen mob decided it was time to attack the little groups of 4-5 lads with stones and bats, so some of our boys had a hard time (5 against 20 armed: you can hardly call this fair...). A number of our boys were arrested and the rest of the group returned to Brussels, while some others went to see their arrested friends. Briefly: a good Anderlecht mob as in the old days, a little deceived by Mechelen because of their use of weapons and their attitude when the two groups stood face-to-face.
2nd
November 1999
(Report by the Brussels Casual Service).
Monday evening the bus left Brussels at 1800 with 80 people on board, and arrived in Bologna the next day around 1500. The reason for the delay were incidents occured at a gas station in Austria: vandalism, fighting and 1 person arrested. The result was a three hour delay. Arrived in Bologna there was a complete search of the coach, confiscation of some goodies and escort to the stadium. Despite the interdiction of
going to town, the whole group went to the city centre, where some 350 ultra's were waiting. They told the K4/BCS mob that several ultra groups were assembling, but this never happened. Around 1630 everybody went in separate groups to the stadium, and some 20 BCS stuck together. Arrived at the main entrance, a fight erupted with some 40 Spaghetti's, and some Ita's hit the floor. 1 was completely K.O. Police interviened and the fight ended. After the game several incidents broke out, and police forces were charged (they wanted to prevent the group from getting out of the stadium). The Mauves Army, K4 and BCS leading, counted some 500 lads. 4 to 5 police vehicles were completely destroyed, and police forces used rubber bullets to disperse the fans. Even containers were launched into the police barrier. After a while the police took over control and the mob was lead out of Italy. They will surely remember the visit of the RSCA Mob.
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Some incidents broke out in Leuven after the 0-3 with around 30 Anderlecht fans. The police had to intervien and controlled the situation after a while.