Turkey to play behind closed door

**beautifulrock** · 07/02/2006, 4:35 PM

From the FIFA website www.fifa.com, Turkey have been ordered to play thier next six games behind closed doors. Not before time I think most would agree.

**SaucyJack** · 07/02/2006, 5:56 PM

about f*cking time.

**pineapple stu** · 07/02/2006, 7:43 PM

Behind closed doors and on neutral ground, I think. Six-match bans aplenty too, including for the Swiss. Well done FIFA, I think you have to say.

**Closed Account 2** · 07/02/2006, 8:59 PM

Wow - I'm impressed ! I thought FIFA would bottle it, but they've thrown the book at them, and rightly so it was a disgrace. Wonder where they will play their matches, 500 miles from the Turkish border... could be Italy. There is always a chance of an appeal.

**pineapple stu** · 07/02/2006, 9:40 PM

Just a shame we didn't draw them...! They're in with Greece and Norway, aren't they? That group gets more and more interesting!

**Marked Man** · 08/02/2006, 3:13 AM

How about behind closed doors and with Danish cartoons printed on their jerseys?

**Schumi** · 08/02/2006, 2:09 PM

Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo

Wonder where they will play their matches, 500 miles from the Turkish border... could be Italy.

How about Iran or Afganistan?

**pineapple stu** · 08/02/2006, 11:26 PM

How about combining those last two?!

**deadman** · 09/02/2006, 12:50 AM

yea about time .... although i can't help thinking that if these incidents happened against a team that wasn't say switzerland - or another country with good friends in fifa/uefa's seats of power - they'd get a slap across the wrist

why didn't this happen after bursa?

**pineapple stu** · 09/02/2006, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by deadman

although i can't help thinking that if these incidents happened against a team that wasn't say switzerland - or another country with good friends in fifa/uefa's seats of power - they'd get a slap across the wrist

Bit paranoid, to be honest. At least one of the Swiss players got a six-match competitive ban, which is unprecedented, I think. Turkey had a prior record as well, Switzerland didn't.