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Nel turno odierno della “Premier League” si sono registrati isuccessi del Chelsea sul Burnley, del Liverpool a Bolton, del Tottenham sul Birmingham e del Man U nell’ attesa sfida dell’ Old Trafford” contro l’ Arsenal ( foto ).In Scozia i Rangers si sono imposti in scioltezza sull’ Hamilton mentre Hibs e Celtic si affronteranno domani.Intanto gli scontri che hanno fatto da contorno alla sfida tra West Ham e Millwall riempiono le colonne dei tabloids; secondo “The Guardian” il fenomeno della violenza in occasione di manifestazioni sportive non sarebbe affatto sparito ma avrebbe, più semplicemente, proliferato nell’ ombra per anni  per poi riesplodere prepotentemente.

 

 

INGHILTERRA: Premier League
13:45	Finale	Chelsea	3 – 0	Burnley	(1 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Blackburn	0 – 0	West Ham	(0 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Bolton	2 – 3	Liverpool	(1 – 1)
16:00	Finale	Stoke	1 – 0	Sunderland	(1 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Tottenham	2 – 1	Birmingham	(0 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Wolves	1 – 1	Hull	(0 – 1)
18:15	Finale	Manchester Utd	2 – 1	Arsenal	(0 – 1)

INGHILTERRA: Championship
14:00	Finale	Nottingham	3 – 2	Derby	(3 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Barnsley	1 – 3	Reading	(1 – 1)
16:00	Finale	Blackpool	3 – 0	Coventry	(1 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Bristol City	2 – 1	Middlesbrough	(0 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Doncaster	2 – 0	Cardiff	(2 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Ipswich	1 – 1	Preston	(1 – 1)
16:00	Finale	Plymouth	1 – 3	Sheffield Wed	(0 – 1)
16:00	Finale	Scunthorpe	0 – 1	QPR	(0 – 1)
16:00	Finale	Sheffield Utd	2 – 2	West Brom	(0 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Swansea	1 – 1	Watford	(0 – 0)

INGHILTERRA: League One
13:00	Finale	Huddersfield	2 – 1	Yeovil	(1 – 1)
16:00	Finale	Brentford	1 – 1	Oldham	(1 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Colchester	1 – 2	Leeds	(0 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Exeter	1 – 2	Milton Keynes	(0 – 2)
16:00	Finale	Hartlepool	0 – 2	Norwich	(0 – 1)
16:00	Finale	Leyton	2 – 2	Carlisle	(0 – 1)
16:00	Finale	Stockport	1 – 1	Southampton	(0 – 1)
16:00	Finale	Swindon	2 – 1	Southend	(1 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Tranmere	0 – 4	Charlton	(0 – 2)
16:00	Finale	Walsall	0 – 0	Gillingham	(0 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Wycombe	2 – 1	Bristol Rovers	(1 – 1)

 

Hooliganism is not dead – it moved to places that get less attention
The Guardian
29 August 2009

What happens now will demonstrate the extent to which the football authorities are prepared to act to quell the canker

The FA expects the offenders to be banned from football for life but that is easier said than done. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action ImagesIn England football hooliganism occupied centre stage for roughly the same part of the 20th century, namely the late 60s to the late 80s, that the American Wild West did in the 19th. Now the old rootin’ tootin’ towns like Tombstone and Dodge City are happy to re-enact the great gunfights to entertain tourists, and it would appear that the habit has caught on over here, to judge from the scenes inside and outside Upton Park on Tuesday night when West Ham played Millwall in the Carling Cup.It was all impressively authentic. There were fights in the streets and pitch invasions during the game. A man was stabbed and there were several arrests as the police went in with heavy hands and helicopters. This was Skinhead Revisited, history in the remaking, and clearly the participants had done their homework.So much for wishful thinking. The reality was just that. Some of Tuesday’s offenders could have been the grandsons of those founding fathers of football hooliganism 40-odd years ago – who started with the odd encroachment on to the playing area to celebrate a goal, followed it up with an occasional assault on a referee then started attacking one another. Football blamed society, politicians blamed football, fans were caged in and it all led to Hillsborough where 96 people died because the cops mistook a safety problem for a security problem.It is only four months since the 20th anniversary of that tragedy recalled dreadful images accompanied by the comforting thought that it could never happen again, that everybody – fans, clubs, police and politicians – knew better. For the most part they do know better but if the scenes in and around Upton Park this week serve some purpose it will surely be to remind the game that hooliganism, while it may have been priced and policed out of the Premier League, has not ceased to exist. Instead it has been dispersed to areas which get less attention, such as pub car parks on a Saturday night.The reactions to Tuesday’s violent scenes have been wearily predictable. “Anyone who thinks that thuggery has any place in modern-day football is living in the dark ages,” declared the home secretary, Alan Johnson. Trouble is, more than a few fans would not mind harking back to darker times, particularly if they have read some of the literary works of those hooligans of the 70s and 80s who lovingly recall their exploits like retired generals remembering their battles.Evidence suggesting that the violence had been organised in advance on online forums – “Make sure you bring your bats and don’t bring your kids” – is disturbing but the idea is hardly new. In March 1985, when Luton and Millwall met in an FA Cup quarter-final at Kenilworth Road, play was halted for 25 minutes while police and visiting fans fought on the pitch, and there was more trouble outside after the game. It transpired that Millwall hoolies had planned the whole thing with the precision of a military operation.What happens now will demonstrate the extent to which the football authorities are prepared to act to prevent the canker of hooliganism breaking out anew. In the past the Football Association has been quick to condemn but slower to act. In this case the FA expects the offenders to be banned from football for life but that is easier said than done. Identifying and apprehending every troublemaker could take months and prosecutions for pitch invasions and racist chanting longer still.As hosts, West Ham were responsible for crowd control and face a hefty fine at a time when the club are strapped for cash. For some this would not go far enough. The FA can close grounds or make teams play behind closed doors, which was West Ham’s fate in 1980 when Uefa ordered them to play the second leg of a Cup Winners’ Cup tie against Castilla at an empty Upton Park after crowd trouble at the Bernabéu, when a visiting fan was crushed to death by a bus.Maybe Tuesday will turn out to be a one-off, an isolated trip down a lane of bad memories. After all, nothing similar was reported 48 hours earlier when West Ham and Tottenham, whose followers are hardly blood brothers, met at Upton Park. Nevertheless, sod’s law being what it is, football will breathe easier should Millwall fail to reach the third round of the FA Cup this season.

 

MILLWALL: Stabbed Eltham ‘family man’ chased by gang
News Shopper
28 August 2009

POLICE are appealing for information over the stabbing of a Millwall fan from Eltham before the match against West Ham on Tuesday (Aug 25).The 43-year-old, now in a stable condition, had arrived with 10 members of his family, including his two teenage sons, to watch the game when he was stabbed.They initially headed to the wrong entrance of the Upton Park ground and were making their way back to the correct one when they were approached by a large group of West Ham supporters who chased them.The victim and his sons became separated from the rest of the family and were attacked by the group who threw punches and kicks.After being separated from his sons, the victim continued to be attacked by the group, receiving a stab wound to the chest.The group fled in various directions and he managed to make his way through an alleyway before collapsing.His sons, who were not seriously injured, found him and called the emergency services.Investigating officer Detective Inspector Lee Barnard, of Newham violent crime unit, said: “This was an innocent family man who was subjected to a senseless attack by people intent on causing violence.”Although the family were not wearing any clothing that would identify them as Millwall supporters, their direction of travel may have indicated that they were.”The victim was subjected to a brutal and sustained attack as he and his family tried to flee to safety.“If not for the swift intervention of paramedics, the man would have lost his life.”An investigation is under way into the violent scenes in and around Upton Park, and 14 people have been arrested.Nine people have been charged for breaching a football banning order, assaulting a police officer and other public order offences.

 

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Soccer violence: the ugliness of the beautiful game
Daily Telegraph
28 August 2009
By Michael Henderson

Ultimately, we have the game we deserve, says Michael Henderson.

The last time I attended a football match, I was surrounded by hundreds of supporters who could easily have been arrested at any stage of the game for barbaric behaviour. Had they spoken, sung or gestured in a similar way at a game of rugby – whether union or league – they would have been carted off, no questions asked.I didn’t make a vow never to attend another match. I like Association Football too much for that. But I have never been deceived by sentimental talk of “the people’s game”. The riotous scenes that took place before, during and after West Ham’s Carling Cup tie against Millwall this week could have surprised only those observers who can neither see nor hear.Football remains a people’s game all right – but just look at some of those people, of whom there are many thousands more than the game’s guardians will ever acknowledge. The game’s sponsors, too. “We know how you feel about it,” runs the tagline for Sky’s current series of advertisements for its live coverage of the Premier League, over shots of supporters in states of frenzy or apprehension, “because we feel the same.” Ah! The poor dears!In fact, that’s the problem in a nutshell: there is too much “feeling”. Even the Telegraph’s estimable football correspondent, Henry Winter, misjudged the nature of the problem. He wrote on Thursday that Gerry Sutcliffe, the sports minister, had ignored the broader social issues underpinning these disturbances, “such as unemployment, poor education and, to many of those in the taunting throng, a passion for conflict”.True, these are social problems, which cannot be solved by football. But why do so many angry young men – and not-so-young men – find such an accommodating stage as football? Because, down the years, football folk have been quite happy to accept their money, a cracked crown here or there a small price to pay for such demonstrable passion.The game’s rulers would have us believe that only a minority of fans spoil it for the others. Yet football grounds in this country, even in the lower leagues, remain segregated. The snake will only have been scotched when fans are able to sit beside one another in a spirit of amity, as I did one night in Munich seven years ago to watch the home team, Bayern, play Real Madrid.Next month, Constable & Robinson will publish a book of mine called Fifty People Who Fouled Up Football. It is an attempt to identify some of those men (there’s only one woman on the list) in the game’s broader culture who have contributed to the general befouling.One of them is a film-maker, Nick Love, whose disgusting movie, The Football Factory, dealt with the brutal factions who are still, as we were reminded this week, prepared to unleash urban warfare on behalf of their tribe.In 2004, when his film was released, Love said that the bish-bash-bosh that everybody else finds repugnant is all about “passion, heroics, the recounting of battles”. Yes, he did. He also said: “It’s uniquely British, and is apparently endlessly fascinating to the rest of the world.” Actually, it’s why so many of our young people are regarded as the dregs of Europe.Foreign money, foreign talent, and foreign managers have altered the landscape of English football, often for the better. Who wouldn’t want to watch Arsenal? But deep down, the domestic game remains an enclosed world, suspicious of intelligence, happy to believe the lofty claims of its paymasters. That, and all that awful “passion”. Ultimately, we have the game we deserve.

SCOZIA: Premier League
16:00	Finale	Aberdeen	0 – 0	Motherwell	(0 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Dundee Utd	2 – 1	Falkirk	(0 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Kilmarnock	1 – 2	St. Mirren	(1 – 0)
16:00	Finale	Rangers	4 – 1	Hamilton	(2 – 0)

 

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