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| Xavier |
| quote: | Three Middlesbrough fans have been stabbed and injured after trouble erupted in Rome before the club's Uefa Cup clash with Roma.
Several other fans were also injured as a group of visiting supporters were attacked in the Italian capital on Tuesday night.
The stabbed fans were taken to hospital for treatment and it is not yet known how serious the injuries are.
Middlesbrough chief executive Keith Lamb confirmed there had been violent clashes between both sets of fans
"There was an incident in one of the bars in a square in Rome," Lamb told Radio Five Live.
"Some Boro fans were drinking in a bar and the bar was attacked by some Roma fans.
"A number of Boro fans have been injured - a small number - and taken to hospital and received medical treatment.
"As far as I'm aware everybody is okay now, although one was retained in hospital but is in a stable condition."
The incident has cast a massive shadow over Wednesday's tie at the Stadio Olimpico with both clubs hoping for no more unsavoury incidents.
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UEFA will do zilch again and again. :mad: |
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| Dj Alex (ISR) |
LOLLOLOLOL
ROMA FTW |
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| The_G0dfather |
| dont find that funny at all, imagine it's you going to a game and gettin in that kind of clinch |
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| chesco |
| Maybe it's about time roma was banned from european competition for a while, at least till their fans learn how to behave (could be a long time). They really are an embarrasment the roma and lazio fans. |
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| Dj Alex (ISR) |
| quote: | Originally posted by chesco
Maybe it's about time roma was banned from european competition for a while, at least till their fans learn how to behave (could be a long time). They really are an embarrasment the roma and lazio fans. |
overeacting..
the press is blowing it too much.. im sure that real fans getting beated in barca if they dont know how to behave.. like entering barca bar with Figo T - |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Alex (ISR)
overeacting..
the press is blowing it too much.. im sure that real fans getting beated in barca if they dont know how to behave.. like entering barca bar with Figo T - |
That's an excuse to beat up an opposing fan?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/...ees/4808246.stm
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English fans are stabbed in Rome
Campo de Fiori
The Campo de Fiori is a popular area with British tourists
Three Middlesbrough fans were stabbed ahead of the club's Uefa Cup clash against AS Roma in the Italian capital.
Cleveland Police said the attack came from an "organised gang of Italian thugs" who targeted two bars where the English fans were drinking.
The violence happened late on Tuesday as about 200 English fans gathered in Rome's central Campo de Fiori area.
British Embassy officials said in all 15 UK fans required hospital treatment for a variety of wounds.
A 39-year-old man who was with his 11-year-old son, underwent surgery in Rome overnight and remains in hospital for observation.
An 18-year-old was also treated in hospital and was expected to be released on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the British Embassy in Rome said five Italians were being held by local police.
These people were carrying sticks, they had axes, we later discovered they had knives, they had firecrackers and paper firebombs
Supt Steve Swales, Cleveland Police
Italian officers with batons were brought in to break up the violence.
A spokesman for Cleveland Police, who have officers with Boro fans in Italy, said at one point a lighted flare was thrown into a bar where Middlesbrough fans, some in family groups, were drinking.
He said most English fans fled for safety, but some retaliated and tables and chairs were thrown as the violence worsened.
The spokesman said the injured supporters were aged between 16 and 55.
Supt Steve Swales, Cleveland Police's commander on the Italian trip, appealed for calm ahead of Wednesday's second-leg tie at the Olympic Stadium.
He said: "People back in the UK will be listening to this and watching this during the course of the day. If they are in contact with relatives over here, we would appeal for calm.
"I am appealing for the Middlesbrough people just to take this in their stride, let us and let the Italian authorities deal with the matter.
"A group in excess of 30 Italian youths, described as Italian Ultras, came into the square. They were a clearly well-organised group.
"They had an identified leader at their head - a gentleman who has been described to me as wearing a silver or shiny fireman's-type helmet and a bandana across his face with only his eyes visible.
"These people were carrying sticks, they had axes, we later discovered they had knives, they had firecrackers and paper firebombs.
"The vast majority of the Middlesbrough supporters who were there are what we would describe as good, normal, shirt-wearing supporters of Middlesbrough, not hooligans, not people known for trouble.
"A lot of them were family groups with younger children, some with their wives."
Fans warned
Boro fan John Donovan was in the square when the attack happened. He said: "It was out of the blue and a premeditated attack.
"It was just a case of getting out of there and making yourself as safe as possible."
A group of extremist Roma fans, known as Ultras, are being blamed for the attack. Reports said they were led by a man wielding an axe.
The travelling fans had been warned of possible trouble before they set off for Italy after the club received a detailed briefing from police.
A Boro fan was killed in Amsterdam last year when the club travelled to AZ Alkmaar and there has also been trouble in Ostrava and Zurich.
Brendan O'Connor, 36, of London, had joined friends to travel to Holland where his team were playing Dutch side AZ Alkmaar in November. |
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| fastmp3 |
| roma should be banned from all UEFA competitions for 5 years :mad: what a in' disgrace |
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| chesco |
reading that article you put up you have to wonder when you hear things like:
| quote: | | A Boro fan was killed in Amsterdam last year when the club travelled to AZ Alkmaar and there has also been trouble in Ostrava and Zurich. |
Were the roma fans really the only ones to blame, zurich is hardly the most violent city in the world and yet they (boro fans) still manage to cause trouble in it. |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Alex (ISR)
LOLLOLOLOL
ROMA FTW |
you scum. Please find the nearest Hamas office & let them show you what being stabbed for no reason feels like.
As for this, sadly english fans are all tarred with the brushes of a minority, and those abroad don't have much chance at times. Many of the problems in Zurich were actually caused by Turkish fans who frequented the area, the one in amsterdam I don't know much about, but the fans of Lazio, Roma, Milan & Inter, and Italians in general can be very much cúnts. Welsh fans were covered in urine in the san siro, now that's not bad, cos they're welsh, but some of these scum are so ass backwards and stuck in an era that some of us have come out of that it beggars belief. |
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| Coup |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Alex (ISR)
LOLLOLOLOL
ROMA FTW |
We dont need that here. Going through your post history, you appear abit of an idiot. Suspended. |
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| InterMilan31 |
| Id like to know what provoked this.....Roma fans may be stupid but they arent stupid to just stab people outta the blue |
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| tijsverwest |
| quote: | Originally posted by chesco
reading that article you put up you have to wonder when you hear things like:
Were the roma fans really the only ones to blame, zurich is hardly the most violent city in the world and yet they (boro fans) still manage to cause trouble in it. |
you'd be suprised with zurich and f.c basle,i thought of the alkmaar incident im not saying boro caused trouble but they must have done something to provoke a reaction one way or another |
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