Milan eejits

[Green Tribe]

Did you see the goalie hit by a flare, game stopped!!!!!!!!!!

[eirebhoy]

http://members.boards.ie/eirebhoy/milan.jpg

[pete]

Probably just some over celebrating?

I'd suspect Inter will face long ban from the San Siro next season. 5 match home ban because such a high profile game?

[Green Tribe]

i'm surprised Italy don't do more to control these flares, they are oviously very dangerous, however spectacular they look! Maybe this will finally make them see sense.

[pete]

Looks like pre planned event. Must be 10 flares on the pitch. Unreal pictures showing flare hit Dida on the shoulder.

Flares are very very hot but won't be any long term damage to the player.

[Green Tribe]

Looks like pre planned event. Must be 10 flares on the pitch. Unreal pictures showing flare hit Dida on the shoulder.

Flares are very very hot but won't be any long term damage to the player.

Wouldn't be jumping for joy if I got one in the eyeball though! Will be interesting to hear the feedback on it all.

[Sheridan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...pe/4432047.stm

That decision sparked the missile and flare-throwing, and Dida was lucky to be struck on the shoulder, the firework only missing his head by inches.

Nice to see the Beeb displaying so keen an appreciation of basic anatomy...

[crc]

I think Inter should get a ban from European competition next year and maybe the next. That's what happened to English clubs when they had trouble with crowds, although I don't think a ban should apply to all clubs in Italy (which would be grossly unfair on AC Milan), but specific to the clubs concerned. Inter and Roma fans would soon wise up with the prospect of a number of years (maybe 5) out of European competition.

[eirebhoy]

Looks like pre planned event. Must be 10 flares on the pitch. Unreal pictures showing flare hit Dida on the shoulder.

Flares are very very hot but won't be any long term damage to the player.

It hit hit him at aroun 70 mph though and is around the same weight as an apple.

[Green Tribe]

It hit hit him at aroun 70 mph though and is around the same weight as an apple.

ouch! I would be really p1ssed off!

[Closed Account 2]

Thrown from the top tier apparently, this sort of thing seems to be creeping into football in the UK too, what with someone launching a flare from the Manchester United end when they played Southampton a few weeks ago. Luckily noone was hurt in that incident.

I'd imagine Inter will get the same as Roma in terms of punishment, 3-0 defeat and 2-3 matches behind closed doors. Tho from what I've read there were more fans (and more flares thrown) than the Roma-coin-Frisk incident. I didnt watch the game (was at the big match instead, Brentford v Tranmere) but the clips off the news show one of the pitch-ends covered in flares.

[mypost]

As an Inter fan myself, I can only say that I am personally sickened at what fans who claim to support the club have done. As if losing to Milan again wasn't bad enough, the club can do without this latest problem. Unfortunately, because of a minority of fans once again, the club is going to get screwed by UEFA. The best punishment the club can hope for is a substantial fine, and possibly home games in Europe played behind closed doors, but I suspect the punishment will be a lot worse than that.

While not condoning what happened in the game against Milan, Inter are by no means the only club in Italy to have a hooligan problem. Rioting is a regular feature at Italian league games, Roma fans also caused the abandonment of a CL game earlier this season. Juventus fans are openly threatening "revenge" against Liverpool fans after what happened when the clubs played each other 20 years ago. When Liverpool fans went to Rome 4 years ago in the UEFA Cup, they were attacked by the Roma fans, both inside and outside the stadium. It's no surprise then, that the club hasn't sold out it's ticket allocation for the game against Juventus in Turin.

The "Italian disease" is not confined to club football either. Scotland and Wales fans have travelled to Milan for International games recently, and were subjected to various forms of physical abuse from the Italian fans. Therefore, what happened in the CL quarter-final is the latest in a long line of incidents involving fans of Italian teams. While Inter fans are in the spotlight now, their fans are not alone. The authorities have done very little about it up to now, and if the present situation continues, then I'm afraid, there will be more incidents of crowd trouble involving fans of teams from Italy in the future. When dishing out their punishments, UEFA should consider whether Italian clubs should be suspended from European football for the foreseeable future, following this latest incident, like they did with English teams in the past. Or whether they decide that there is one rule for English teams, and another for everyone else in European competitions, following crowd violence.

[stojkovic]

Looks like pre planned event. Must be 10 flares on the pitch. Unreal pictures showing flare hit Dida on the shoulder.

Flares are very very hot but won't be any long term damage to the player.

A few years ago I think it was the 94WC qualifier at Cardiff Arms Park a person on one side of the ground let off a flare. It shot across the field and hit an elderly man KILLING him.

[Eire06]

A lot of the players were blaming the ref last night for all his dodgy decisions.... You could see them mouthing off to him..

Ya the Ref was crap but no need for that kind of reaction.. The english media are making a meal out of it too, trying to cloud the English hooligan image saying the Italians are worse...

[OwlsFan]

All I can say is that Inter showed plenty of flare.

[anto1208]

A lot of the players were blaming the ref last night for all his dodgy decisions.... You could see them mouthing off to him..

Ya the Ref was crap but no need for that kind of reaction.. The english media are making a meal out of it too, trying to cloud the English hooligan image saying the Italians are worse...

what !! that is rubbish as bad as english fans are ive never seen anything like that last night , but of coarse nothing will really happen inter they should be kicked out of the comp for a minimum of a year , if it was an english club they would be banned straight away . but the english media are right the italians are way way worse than any english hooligans ,

[razor]

trying to cloud the English hooligan image saying the Italians are worse...

Hello, Wake Up call, the Italians are worse.

[Dublin12]

Try telling that to Juve fans where 39 died because of the English hooligans

[noby]

Try telling that to Juve fans where 39 died because of the English hooligans

I think you'll find he's speaking in present tense


Tonight's match was going to be edgy as it is. Now we've a case of Italian fans crowd trouble stopping a match, and UEFA not seen to jump in with immediate bans. It may not help the situation for tonight.

[Eire06]

Anto1208 and razor take off the blinkers please!!

What about in 1995 when England fans rioted at a friendly game against Ireland, or when they played Italy in 97 at a World Cup qualifying match, or when a Sheffield United supporter leapt on to the pitch and thumped a linesman unconscious just because he did not agree with a handball decision..
the rioting involving English fans in Marseille in the 1998 World Cup and at Charleroi during Euro 2000

I can go on and on with examples.. But I don't want to take away from what happened last night It was a disgrace...
But I do think The English media are kinda saying were not bad at all sure look at them lot... And they are just as bad if not worse..

Hooliganism has to be looked at on a world wide scale in order to control it

I think a more suitable punishment would be to ban the having support for a good few matches and a hefty fine for the club..
I think the supporters should suffer as well as the club