Tottenham fans injured in Rome

[Pigeonho]

Spuds fans attacked.

Sounds grim.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...nham-fans-stabbed-Rome-ahead-Lazio-match.html

 

[speccybob]

Tottenham fans injured in clashes in Rome

A Tottenham Hotspur supporter has been seriously injured and nine others hurt in clashes with rival fans in Rome.

Spurs are due to play Lazio in the Italian capital later in a Europa League match, and hundreds of their fans are in the city.

The Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper reported the Spurs fan was seriously injured in the bar brawl.

He is understood to have suffered a serious injury to an artery after being stabbed.

Already a thread thread on it. Merge please mods

Nine of the injured fans are believed to be British and the 10th is American.

The BBC's Rome correspondent, Alan Johnston, reported police as saying 30 people - armed with iron bars and with their faces covered - approached the bar where the English fans were drinking in the early hours of Thursday and fighting broke out.

Our correspondent said the bar was wrecked and five people were arrested.

All of them were Italians who the police believe to be Lazio fans.

Some Lazio supporters have in the past been associated with fascism - the club was supported by Mussolini before the war - while Tottenham have traditionally drawn support from the Jewish community.

Some Spurs fans refer to themselves as the "Yid Army", and earlier this year Peter Herbert, chairman of the Society of Black Lawyers, threatened to report them to the police.

The newspaper La Repubblica said "urban warfare" broke out at the Drunken Ship bar in the Campo de' Fiori with up to 100 "Ultras" attacking Spurs fans.

It said Lazio fans were armed with knives, baseball bats, and knuckle dusters.

A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was investigating and would provide consular assistance.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Spuds fans attacked.

Racist chanting at the WHL match by Lazio fans and now Spuds fans stabbed in Rome. At what point does Napoleon stop and think "you know what, this FFP lark can wait while we sort out the real issues."

My guess is never.

 

[Churchill123]

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Attack by hooligans wielding knives, baseball bats, belts and knuckle dusters - Sounds like a new danny dyer film!

 

[ManCityJordan]

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Things need to be done about places like Italy, Turkey, Russia etc. Harsh punishments like taking the world cup off Russia would be one, how are African teams and fans going to feel safe in 2018?

 

[sergiokun]

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Pictures for you.... Wish the spurs fans well. shit load of blood

 

[afhald]

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i'm italian, but i feel sorry for your countrymen. I think Uefa should ban Lazio or do something against these crimes.

Here there are some photos from the pub:

 

[MCFC-alan88]

Re: Spuds fans attacked.

This'll be brushed over by EUFA and FIFA and blamed on the English, no doubt.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Spuds fans attacked.

Although you could probably have predicted that something along these lines would happen , this does sound like yet another bad attack on english fans ..... funny how these cowardly italian yobs never try this sort of thing in England , where they find themselves outnumbered.

Ten Spurs fans injured is a significant amount , and something positive needs doing to eradicate the problem , although it will no doubt prove to be very difficult (or drastic) ....... but anything up to 100 masked italian ultras shouldn't be allowed to just get away with causing incidents such as this , it's wrong , and the cops , at least , appear to have arrested a few of them.

Maybe the answer is to simply ban fans of clubs like Napoli , Roma and Lazio from travelling to european games , and ban foreign fans from travelling there ..... can't really see any other way of stopping it.

 

[BRUVS N BLUE]

why the fuck are they allowed to get away with this time and time and time again , why dont the f.a stand up to u.e.f.a and demand some sort of action , i would ban ITALY from competing in any major tournaments , fuck fines and other usless punishments hit the offending country where in hurts and force them to make changes for them selves .