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Il Manchester City ha pareggiato a reti inviolate sul terreno del Birmingham City nell’ incontro che concludeva un turno di EPL che ha iniziato ad allungare un po’ la classifica nelle prime posizioni.Il recente aumento di incidenti negli stadi inglesi preoccupa la FIFA, sia per quanto concerne gli imminenti mondiali del Sud Africa sia in relazione alla possibilità di assegnare proprio all’ Inghilterra l’edizione 2018 della manifestazione. Intanto a Leeds società e tifosi ( foto ) sono impegnati in iniziative per ricordare i due tifosi dei “bianchi” uccisi in Turchia nel 2000 mentre in città ieri ha manifestato la “EDL” portando oltre mille persone in piazza. Emergono nuovi dettagli circa la clamorosa “gaffe” di “Scotland Yard” che , tra le foto segnaletiche di sospettati per i tafferugli di West Ham Millwall di “Carling Cup”, aveva inserito le immagini di sei attori del film “The firm”. In Scozia gara sospesa a Dundee tra i locali ed i Rangers ( momentaneamente in vantaggio per uno a zero ) a causa di un autentico diluvio abbattutosi sullo stadio.Riportiamo anche la notizia di una incredibile disavventura subita da un tifoso dell’ Aberdeen di ritorno dalla trasferta di Edimburgo.

 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Chelsea	11	5	0	0	15	1	4	0	2	13	7	20	27
2	Man Utd	11	5	1	0	13	7	3	0	2	10	4	12	25
3	Arsenal	10	5	0	0	20	4	2	1	2	12	9	19	22
4	Man City	10	3	1	0	10	5	2	3	1	8	6	7	19
5	Tottenham	11	3	0	2	10	6	3	1	2	11	11	4	19
6	Liverpool	11	4	0	1	17	4	2	0	4	8	12	9	18
7	Aston Villa	10	3	1	1	7	4	2	2	1	7	5	5	18
8	Sunderland	11	4	1	1	15	9	1	1	3	5	8	3	17
9	Stoke	11	3	1	2	8	7	1	3	1	3	6	-2	16
10	Burnley	11	5	0	1	10	5	0	0	5	2	17	-10	15
11	Fulham	10	3	0	2	7	5	1	2	2	6	8	0	14
12	Wigan	11	2	1	2	5	8	2	0	4	7	13	-9	13
13	Everton	10	2	3	1	9	10	1	0	3	4	6	-3	12
14	Birmingham	11	2	2	2	4	4	1	0	4	4	8	-4	11
15	Bolton	10	1	2	3	8	13	2	0	2	6	6	-5	11
16	Wolverhampton	11	1	2	2	4	6	1	2	3	7	12	-7	10
17	Blackburn	10	3	1	1	8	6	0	0	5	3	18	-13	10
18	Hull	11	2	1	2	4	7	0	1	5	4	17	-16	8
19	West Ham	10	0	2	2	7	9	1	2	3	6	8	-4	7
20	Portsmouth	11	1	0	5	7	8	1	1	3	2	7	-6	7

 

 

Hooligans may scupper England’s World Cup bid
Irish Independent
01 November 2009
By Paul Wilson

Fan violence has not gone away — it’s just moved to different arenas, writes Paul Wilson

Typical, isn’t it? Just when England is bidding to bring the 2018 World Cup to its green and pleasant shores, outbreaks of 1970s-style hooliganism keep getting in the way, cropping up noxiously to remind the world that football there is nowhere near as sanitised as the image the Premier League portrays.It was tempting to dismiss the West Ham-Millwall ugliness in August as a one-off, an unfortunate blot on an otherwise presentable copybook caused by over-lagered louts with a history of hating each other.What happened at Barnsley the other night was less easy to overlook, particularly as the trashing of Oakwell’s north stand, concourse and intimidation of staff and police was caused by Manchester United supporters. That is to say, followers of the most prominent club in England, the one with the biggest ground and facilities that are bound to form part of any English World Cup.If United supporters cannot behave themselves, then English football is in trouble, never mind the 2018 bid. Yet before rushing to conclusions, such as the fashionable one that the recent wave of film and book nostalgia for the hooligan era is actually breathing new life into the old ultra-violence, let’s try to keep a sense of perspective.What do United fans have against Barnsley, for a start? Why didn’t they vandalise Anfield last Sunday when they had the chance? How come Old Trafford has a reputation for being a quiet place to watch a game — “It’s just like being in church” — and why are United fans not wreaking havoc on their Premier League travels?A clue may lie in the competition. West Ham and Barnsley were staging Carling Cup games, not regular league matches. The suspicion is that different sets of supporters become involved when tickets are both cheaper and more easily available than for regular fixtures.In all probability West Ham versus Millwall on a late summer evening was always a recipe for a ruck and, while some have called for future cup pairings to be redrawn or played behind closed doors, it is likely a greater awareness and massively increased police presence will serve just as well. Barnsley, too, will think twice before giving a whole end to visiting fans in future, especially if the tickets are going to be snapped up by fans disenfranchised by the Old Trafford pricing policy from watching their team on a regular basis.While it cannot be said with total certainty that was the situation at Oakwell, it seems quite a likely scenario. The away fans at Barnsley sang with a gusto not normally heard at Old Trafford and went through their whole repertoire, not just including the Eric Cantona songs but even the one about Diego Forlan making the Scousers cry, which was hardly relevant or pertinent. It was as if they had not had a chance to sing for a while.That does not entitle them to vent their additional frustration on the burger bar, but before Old Trafford seats were snapped up by corporate clients and Japanese tourists they belonged to people who tended to show their allegiance to United by working over the opposition.This sort of aggression has not disappeared, it has simply been moved along by modern stadiums. Moved outside, mostly. A Manchester City fan recently explained how pointless it was to be kept inside Old Trafford for up to half an hour after the end of a game. “The police do it for our safety, so the United fans can get off home and there is no danger from the two sets of supporters mixing,” he said. “What they don’t seem to understand is that United fans who have watched the game are not the problem. The people waiting for us outside, lurking in the shadows with bottles and stones, didn’t go to the match in the first place.”As Lord Triesman is planning “a World Cup that embraces and celebrates our diverse communities and considers their various needs”, perhaps he should co-opt a representative of England’s lost tribe of working-class football supporters and juvenile delinquents to his “inclusivity advisory group”.You think I am joking? The 2018 bid has just set up such a body to make sure absolutely no constituency is overlooked in England’s efforts to host a World Cup, and it includes experts on racial equality, disabled supporters, women’s football, social legacy and gay awareness. Sadly, it does not appear to have anyone speaking up for people who can no longer afford to watch football. If you find you can get to see your favourite team only once or twice a year in Carling Cup matches, you might have to smash up a few more Championship grounds before you get noticed. There’s something I don’t understand about the 2018 bid. Something big.The word bid appears to have changed its meaning to grovel. England is famous for football. The Premier League is supposedly the best in the world. You may sneer, but it is certainly in the top three and the stadiums and infrastructure are not lacking. And it’s England’s turn. By 2018 the country will not have had a World Cup for more than half a century. So why bend over backwards, spending untold millions on box-ticking exercises and pointlessly inviting English football journalists to watch U2 live at Wembley? (It’s not that U2 are pointless, although opinion is divided on the subject, it’s that English journalists have no sway with FIFA and are predisposed toward the bid anyway.)Instead of pandering to bid vulture Jack Warner and boring everyone to death about inclusivity, Sepp Blatter should simply be asked what good reasons exist for not giving England the next European tournament.

 

 

Boys in tribute to murdered football fans
Craven Herald and Pioneer
31 October 2009

Fellow fans at Leeds United Football Club have always felt like family to Craven businessman Alan Green.

So, when two of his close pals were murdered in Turkey on the eve of an away game, it was like losing two of his own brothers.Alan, who had helped to charter the aeroplane which took 200 Leeds fans to the ill-fated match, found himself at the centre of the tragedy and he can hardly believe it is nearly 10 years since it happened.He has always kept in close contact with the families of Christopher Loftus, 35, and 40-year-old Kevin Speight, who were stabbed during clashes the night before Leeds played a Turkish side in Istanbul in the second leg of the UEFA Cup semi-finals in April 2000.Now, Alan’s 11-year-old son, Laurence, and friends Ben Dakin, 13 and Oliver Snowdon, 11, are supporting a huge £100,000 charity fundraising drive to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the two men next April.Proud dad Alan, 50, who lives at Newton Way, Hellifield, says he has been touched that his son and his friends – all regulars at Leeds United – wanted to get involved, even though they were just toddlers when the killings took place.Recalling the night of the Turkish tragedy, Alan, a devoted Leeds fan for more than 35 years, said: “There were about 30 of us and we had gone into the city centre for a drink and something to eat.“A huge fracas erupted near where we were, but I thought it was local youths picking a fight and that it would be something or nothing, with a few white plastic chairs being upturned.“Unfortunately it was a lot worse than that as some of the Turkish supporters were carrying knives and had come to maim and cause serious injury. Kevin and Chris were murdered that night.“We went back to the hotel as we wanted to get an early start for sightseeing in the morning, but then news started filtering through that someone had been murdered.“We found out it was Chris and I took his three brothers to the morgue – it was horrendous. Then we heard Kevin had been badly injured with stab wounds and had died shortly afterwards in hospital.“It was a terrible, terrible day,” said Alan, who runs Printers Cloth Company in Bradford.Alan says he attended an identity parade the next day at the local police station just before the game to help identify the murderers. Eventually a Turkish man was jailed for 15 years.“The men responsible were not football fans, they were a right-wing, politically-motivated set of thugs,” he said. “The murders shook everyone up and a lot of people stopped going to Leeds matches. I nearly stopped going myself. “ Alan says he still finds it difficult to come to terms with what happened, but hopes some good will come out of the deaths through the charity appeal.“I first met Kevin when I was 15 when we went to Paris together on the coach to watch Leeds in the European cup final. Both Chris and Kevin were really great blokes,” he said.“They were two innocent men who went to watch their beautiful team play football. Their deaths should never have happened.”A sponsored bike ride on Saturday on the banks of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal between Skipton and Leeds marks the next round of fundraising.Rising to the challenge will be Alan’s son and his two friends who plan to complete the ride before watching Leeds play Yeovil Town at Elland Road.All proceeds of the sponsored event will go towards Leeds-based children’s cancer charity Candlelighters.“Every year on the anniversary of the deaths of Kevin and Chris we get together to put wreaths at the ground,” said Alan.“We knew the 10th anniversary was approaching and we wanted to do something in memory of Kevin and Chris. Things escalated and now events are planned every month in the run-up to the anniversary. We wanted to show what the Leeds United family can do.“It was Laurence and his mates’ idea to do something. The boys know about the significance of the anniversary. Laurence wanted to do something for his dad and for his friends who died and I think that is wonderful.”Laurence and Oliver play for Silsden Football Club Juniors under-12s A team and Ben plays for the club’s under-13s A team.* For more details of the appeal and to make a donation visit the leedsfansremembrance.com website.

 

Police sorry for West Ham football riot actors blunder
Daily Telegraph
31 October 2009
By Alastair Jamieson

Police have apologised for a blunder in which actors from football hooligan film The Firm were mistakenly included in ‘wanted’ pictures of fans caught in West Ham v Millwall riots.

It has emerged that a file of 66 pictures of those caught up in the violent clashes, made public in a bid to identify the rioters, accidentally included stills of actors from the film.Police used a Sky News report to capture images of fans fighting at the Carling Cup clash in August but officers turned off the sound from the report and so failed to realise it included clips from the movie.The Metropolitan Police said: ”We wish to apologise unreservedly to those affected.”Among the actors who faces were included in in the ‘wanted’ line-up was Paul Anderson, who plays Bex in the film.The error was described by Yard insiders as a ”bad day at the office” for those responsible.Scotland Yard said: ”Six images in individuals who were not involved in the violence were mistakenly included. These images appear to have been taken from a motion picture.”We wish to apologise unreservedly to those affected. We are going to be actively trying to contact those people to offer our apologies.”A 43-year-old Millwall supporter was stabbed during the violence in and around West Ham’s Upton Park ground on August 25. Police have arrested more than 40 people so far.The Firm, which was released last month, is set in football hooligans’ 1980s heyday and is about a young man who joins a ”firm” of thugs.Vertigo Films, which made the movie, told The Sun: ”We are delighted our scenes are so realistic people can’t tell the difference between them and real events.”

 

A police cordon was formed around the EDL supporters in City Square

More than 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Leeds city centre amid a heavy police presence as a group staged a protest against Islamic extremism.

Police said about 900 English Defence League (EDL) supporters joined the rally in City Square. They were penned in by a ring of officers.A rival protest of up to 1,500 Unite Against Fascism (UAF) supporters took place nearby in Victoria Gardens.ìFive people were arrested for minor public order offences.The EDL supporters were escorted back to the nearby railway station once the rally ended.However, about 500 UAF supporters remained under police observation in the Victoria Gardens area.Hundreds of police officers were brought into the city to act as a barrier between the rival protesters.Officers feared there could be disorder and urged young Muslims and students to avoid getting involved in any trouble.

 

 

Mosques plea

Police visited mosques in the city on Thursday to urge young people not to get drawn into any disorder.West Yorkshire Police also sent an e-mail to students in Leeds which said: “Everyone is entitled to freedom of speech and the right to peaceful protest, but people who take this too far and commit unlawful acts can expect to be positively dealt with by West Yorkshire Police.

Police expected most protesters to demonstrate peacefull

“Being arrested and gaining a criminal conviction for violence or disorder is likely to have a significant impact on your studies, including potential disciplinary proceedings involving your university, and also affect your career prospects after completing your course.”Dozens of people were arrested when trouble broke out at similar protests in Manchester earlier this month and in Birmingham in September.Ch Supt Mark Milsom, from West Yorkshire Police, said: “We have been involved in ongoing discussions with both groups about their respective events, our aim being to facilitate peaceful protests, with minimum disruption to the public.”Mr Milson said because the EDL focus on Islamic issues, members of local Muslim communities, particularly younger people, “might feel threatened and be tempted into attending”.He said the protests were away from the city’s main shopping areas and those travelling to Leeds to shop would be unaffected.He said the majority of people at the demonstrations wanted them to be peaceful, but anyone who did become involved in disorder would be arrested.

( BBC Sport )

 

Sunday’s match at Tanadice between Dundee United and Rangers in the Scottish Premier League was abandoned at half-time due to heavy rain.

Referee Mike Tumelty informed Rangers manager Walter Smith and United manager Craig Levein about his concerns over surface water and stopped the game.”Towards half time it became nearly impossible and I did not want the game to become farcical,” said Tumelty.Rangers had a half-time lead through Steven Davis’s 30th-minute strike.

 

Some reports said many fans were dressed as sheep on the train

A 24-year-old football fan dressed as a sheep suffered serious burns to his arms and legs when his suit caught fire on a train in Fife.

Aberdeen fans said the man ran ablaze through the carriage as others threw beer on him to douse the flames.The Edinburgh to Aberdeen service was stopped at Kirkcaldy at about 1900 GMT on Saturday to allow him to be treated.British Transport Police said a 23-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the incident.A second man is reported to have suffered slight injuries.The train was carrying Aberdeen football supporters back home after their side’s match against Hibs in Edinburgh.It is understood a number of the fans at the match and on the train were dressed as sheep.

The train involved, an Arriva cross-country train, was the 1808 GMT service from Edinburgh to Aberdeen.The fan who suffered burns is said to be in a serious but stable condition in hospital in Kirkcaldy.British Transport Police said the arrested man was expected to appear at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on Monday.

(BBC Sport O

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