Howard Webb
Clive Wilson
spurs fans attacked by masked gang
In Rome last night. One serious condition.
In Rome last night. One serious condition.
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Yea I fancied this one as well, but was concerned about this very thing. Maybe when I was younger I'd have gone but with a family now it's just too much to lose if you get caught up in this sh*t.
My Managing Director (a very very respectable and nice guy) and some of his friends went to the Roma/Man Utd game in 2007 when it kicked off proper in and out of the stadium and they were genuinely shocked at both the Italian fans and the police who were battering them like they were the problem.
It's a fudging joke how their fans seem to get away with it like it's just part of the Italian 'away' experience..
They haven't been to an away European game since...it affected them that much.
There have been several incidents with United fans in Rome. Some Liverpool fans were also stabbed in Rome before and/or after the European Cup final in 1984, one of the reasons for the fan trouble at Heysel a year later.
On the wider issue of police reaction to English fans, wasn't there a video of one of our fans (a disabled middle-aged/elderly lady) being hit by a baton on one of our trips to Spain? Edit: probably the Sevilla game DHSF mentioned.
Lots of fans who witnessed it said the police just drove off when it all started !!
The ultra's defo in cahoots with the police out there..