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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Serbian Hooligans Cause Game To Be Postponed



A group of idiotic Serbian hooligans wish on ruining their side’s Euro qualifier against Italy in Genoa was fulfilled.

Before the game, while the Serbian team was on their way to the stadium, hooligans hurled smokebombs onto the vehicle and even Vladimir Stojkovic was scared and asked not to play. He had reason to be afraid after his obituary was posted online by Red Star fans following his move to worst rival Partizan Belgrade.

The drama continued in the stadium. It was delayed for 45 minutes in which the Serbian team even tried to calm the hooligans by applauding the away fan section, but to no avail. When the match started, flares were all over the pitch one of them almost hitting Italy goalkeeper Emilio Viviano, who refused to continue.

From The AP:

Before the scheduled kickoff, a few fans with their heads covered climbed up onto a partition, took out tools and began cutting through a mesh fence. Glass partitions were broken.

Police dressed in riot gear confronted the fans and eventually the teams came back out. Serbia fans whistled and booed throughout their national anthem, but the game began.

Hooliganism has reached its worst, it seems and it has to stop.