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Si avvicina la finale di “Champions’ League” tra Manchester United ed il Barcellona e le granitiche certezze sull’ ordine pubblico palesate per mesi dalla UEFA iniziano a vacillare. Dopo che le massime autorità sportive avevano definito l’ incontro sostanzialmente a rischio ridotto per l’ assenza di clubs italiani, sono iniziate a circolari voci sempre più allarmate sull’ arrivo di non meno di 30mila supporters dei “Red Devils”, al cui interno si teme la “firm” dei “Men in black”, e su una possibile allenza tra i “Boixos Nois” della squadra spagnola ed ultras locali per cercare il confronto con i sostenitori inglesi. “Dulcis in fundo” Platini è arrivato a ricordare la tragedia dello stadio “Heysel” del 1985 lasciando sottintendere una notevola preoccupazione che qualcosa possa guastare la grande finale del massimo trofeo del calcio continentale, Anche i Rangers Glasgow pensano alla “Champions’ League” e, più precisamente, alla prossima cui accederano direttamente senza la lotteria dei turni preliminari che toccherà ai Celtic. Ad “Ibrox”, oltre che i tifosi ( foto ), sono molto felici in amministrazione dove finalmente è in arrivo un cospicuo “extrabudget” per risistemare i conti in rosso senza dovere attingere al parco giocatori. In ogni caso è sensazionale il girone di ritorno disputato dalla squadra di Smith che ha fatto ben 11 punti più dei rivali del Celtic, nonostante che a gennaio, proprio per motivi di bilancio, alcuni pezzi pregiati erano stati lasciati partire. Per l’ incontro amichevole dello scorso 2 agosto tra Darlington e St. Mirren, con corollario di una rissa che coinvolse almeno una trentina di tifosi, sono arrivate le prime condanne, precisamente sei con il beneficio della sospensione della pena. In totale erano stati identificati nove sostenitori della squadra di casa ed uno ospite, grazie alla visione delle immagini filmate dalle telecamere.
Smith: Title success has spared sale of stars
“RANGERS manager Walter Smith hopes winning the Clydesdale Bank Premier League means he will be able to retain the services of his best players ahead of next season.Smith was faced with the prospect of losing key personnel back in January when the club admitted they could be forced to offload their top assets in a bid to balance the books.Birmingham failed in a bid to sign top goalscorer Kris Boyd when the move collapsed over personal terms and Alex McLeish recently refused to rule out making a fresh bid for the striker as he prepares for life in the Barclays Premier League next season.Madjid Bougherra and Pedro Mendes could also be targeted over the summer after impressing in their debut campaigns at Ibrox.But success in the SPL means Champions League football, and a £10million windfall, is guaranteed and Smith no longer expects to be at the mercy of other clubs when deciding which players have a future at Rangers.“What it gives us now is the choice of what’s going to happen rather than being at the mercy of people coming in,” said Smith.”That’s the one good thing about the automatic qualification for the Champions League and the money that comes along with it.”Now we hopefully can have a choice in who leaves rather than be dependant on somebody coming in and offering money for players.”Obviously the influx of money from the Champions League is a big thing as everybody knows.”So hopefully, once we sit down and talk about that situation, it can help alleviate quite a few of the problems we were going to have.”
( “The Scotsman” )
Fighting broke out in Darlington
Northern Echo
22 May 2009
By Paul Cook
SIX hooligans have today received suspended jail sentences after an alcohol-fuelled fight in Darlington town centre in the wake of a ‘friendly’ football match.
“Onlookers, including a stag party, were caught up in the battle which involved upto 30 people after last summer’s game between the Quakers and St Mirren.Trouble broke out in Darlington’s market place shortly after the end of an ugly pre-season encounter between the two sides, which St Mirren won 1-0.Police had to break up the fight – which broke out amidst terrified shoppers and children – and was caught on CCTV.Ten men – nine from Darlington and one St Mirren fan – who admitted charges of affray last month returned to Teesside Crown Court today to be sentenced.Giving them a range of sentences, Judge George Moorhouse said: “On August 2, Darlington and St Mirren were having a friendly football match. After the match had taken place, 30 young men were then seen fighting in the town centre in the market area.“Witnesses whether they be children or bystanders must have been terrified by what they said.”To see 35-year-old men punching and kicking each other is a very sad sight indeed. In each case it was fuelled by drink. Drink has been your misfortune in the past.”I have heard that text messages were sent from some of your phones. They were not sent to local people or to others to join in. I have seen videos of you all.”I am quite satisfied that this kind of behaviour is so serious to justify a custodial sentence not only because of what you did but what other people witnessed.“Footage showed a range of violence, including between 15 and 20 punches being thrown, 25 to 30 kicks being aimed, men grabbed in headlocks and one man striking another with a chair.Prosecuting Chris Baker said the violence started after St Mirren fans came into Darlington town centre.Solicitors acting on behalf of the ten defendants expressed a mixture of remorse, shame and regret, and added some acted in self-defence or to help friends.
Jonathan Walker said: “It was a collection of cowardly and rather pathetic and camp acts in a brawl in which the group were inwardly turning on each other in drink-fuelled actions.”Only two were Darlington fans, both of which had recently completed football banning orders. None of those involved had actually been to the game.Malcolm Campbell, 26, of Flamingo Close, Lee Davidson, 25, of Laburnum Road, Wayne William Thomas Turner, 22, of Alnwick Place, Nigel Jason Rochester, 36, of North Road, and Scott Andrew Turner, 19, of Alnwick Place, all Darlington and Paul McInally, 35, of Renfrew Road, Paisley, Scotland, were all given two month suspended prison sentences.McInally, Davidson, and John Robert Reynoldson, 44, of Lowson Street, were also given three-year football banning orders.All seven, plus Kevin Arthur Barker, 39, of Auckland Avenue, Dominic Vincent Cosgrove, 40, of Roslyn Street, and John William Derek Wilkinson, 35, of Dunelm Walk, were all ordered to pay costs, banned from pubs in Darlington and given a mixture of orders and unpaid work totalling 990 hours.An 11th person who was arrested, a 17-year-old boy, was previously given a football banning order and referral order by magistrates.Speaking afterwards, PC Fiona Cunningham and PC Greg Beswick, the Darlington police officers who worked on the case, welcomed the sentences.PC Cunningham said: “I would hope that the sentences passed today would highlight that Darlington police shall not tolerate football-related violence within their town.”Although the violence did not take place at Darlington football ground, it was deemed that the incident was a football-related offence as it took place in the town that the event occurred.”
Memories of Heysel leave Platini anxious over Champions
Canadian Express
23 May 2009
By Rob Harris
ISTANBUL, Turkey — With memories of the Heysel Stadium disaster still fresh in his mind, UEFA president Michel Platini is concerned about the possibility of trouble at next week’s Champions League final in Rome.
In 1985, Platini scored the penalty for Juventus that clinched the European Cup victory over Liverpool in Brussels, but all that was overshadowed by the deaths of 39 mostly Juventus supporters after rioting by English fans.
As Manchester United prepares to take on Barcelona on Wednesday in the Italian capital, Platini – in his role as head of European soccer – is thinking as much about security issues as the matchup between two of the world’s powerhouse team”I always trust everybody and I think everything will be done, but I was in Brussels and I cannot forget in my mind what could (go wrong at) the game and I am responsible,” Platini said in an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, where he attended the UEFA Cup final.
“I am responsible for … the fans and I would like that everything will be fine.Violence has plagued visits to the Italian capital by English teams over the last decade. In 2007, several United fans were hospitalized with stab wounds and up to 18 were injured inside the Olympic Stadium after clashes with riot police.”It is a very appreciated final and there is a lot of expectation on the two teams because they are playing well, but I remember in ’85, everyone was waiting for Liverpool and Juventus and I have too many experiences of what could be in a final,” Platini said.”For me, as president of UEFA, now this year there is even greater expectation because the teams are playing very well, but as president I look more at security than the game sometimes.”Just three months ago, an Arsenal supporter was stabbed on the way to the stadium when the London club played AS Roma. UEFA hopes the fact Roma is not involved will keep its extremist “Ultra” fans away from the potential flashpoints.Rome is preparing for a massive security operation around the city and at the 67,000-capacity stadium. Delegations of British and Spanish police will arrive in the Italian capital on Monday to co-ordinate safety measures with the Italians.