fecking hell things are getting out of hand at The Emirates!
The Europa League 2017/18(Use the SF thread to discuss the current match)
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Yeah this could get pretty bad, it's actually quite a dilemma for the police. It could become chaotic and quite dangerous pretty quickly.
Reports are saying that Cologne fans bought seats for the home crowd sections from touts and they're trying to get into the away areas from there. Sounds like all hell could break loose.
ITV get highlights of the CL and EL.
Plea again. 2-0 Nice. Zenit make it 2 as well and Steaua take the lead.
WTF!?
It´s Cologne. They could be banned from Europe for the next 30 years and miss out maybe twice. Why you think they all want to see this game so desperately.
Don't get it. They won't be banned if they didn't do what they are doing. Even if there team is so crap they'll at least get to see their team for 6 matches in Europe this season.
Their club definitely doesn't deserve to be heavily punished because its fans are idiots.
That's quite common in Germany, actually.
Cologne almost destroyed their stadium when they go relegated in 2012. They are used to behave like clowns.
That's exactly why they do deserve to get punished. Puts the onus on the club to sort its fans out.
Never ever works really, it's just the club paying the cash, fans will do as they will unless they all get stadium bans.
They didn't tell their fans to do this and they can't control what each of their fans are doing. The fans are the idiot ones who are hurting their club doing this BS.
Would love to see Arsenal get pumped tonight
If the match is cancelled, UEFA need to come down hard on Köln. I would say throw them out but that would result in revenue losses for other clubs.
I think they should play the remainder of their games at home behind closed doors.
I think they should play the remainder of their games at home behind closed doors.
Guardian report
25s ago 20:30
“I was visiting Hamburg back in February and watched a midweek cup game between Hamburg and Cologne,” writes Steve Blowers. “I sat in the home end but pretty much everywhere in the stadium there were away supporters mixed in with the home support. There was no trouble but it definitely put me on edge the entire game.” In a sense today’s chaos was foreseeable, with over 20,000 (some reports say 30,000) Cologne fans known to be heading towards London despite the official away allocation being only around 3,000. Perhaps the authorities expected those without tickets to watch the match in a London pub, as suggested by Cologne’s manager Peter Stöger. It seems the powers-that-be have been taken by surprise by the number of away fans who’ve managed to get their hands on tickets.
25s ago 20:30
“I was visiting Hamburg back in February and watched a midweek cup game between Hamburg and Cologne,” writes Steve Blowers. “I sat in the home end but pretty much everywhere in the stadium there were away supporters mixed in with the home support. There was no trouble but it definitely put me on edge the entire game.” In a sense today’s chaos was foreseeable, with over 20,000 (some reports say 30,000) Cologne fans known to be heading towards London despite the official away allocation being only around 3,000. Perhaps the authorities expected those without tickets to watch the match in a London pub, as suggested by Cologne’s manager Peter Stöger. It seems the powers-that-be have been taken by surprise by the number of away fans who’ve managed to get their hands on tickets.
Guimares 1-0 against Red Bull.
Are Koln any good this season? Given the situation I'm thinking about placing a wager on them for tonight.
Lost all 3 games in the league.
Wasn't built for barbarians either.
I wonder if Arsenal will get hammered as well for not controlling the sale of their tickets?
Nice kill the game off in 30 minutes. 3-0 Dante.
Makes you wonder. How have that many tickets got into the hands of touts?
Not worth it then.
Yeah, punish us now
Vitesse score!
To be fair, away fans mixed up with the home crowd is pretty common in Germany and rarely any trouble.
Arsenal embarrassing the Premiership ffs.
FC Koln fans have pretty much taken over the Emirates stadium. They would never get away with that at United.
FC Koln fans have pretty much taken over the Emirates stadium. They would never get away with that at United.
Hope for an Alexis's hattrick.
What a bizarre thing to brag about
Cologne could play anywhere today, it would always look like this. This was to be expected. Has nothing to do with Arsenal. Though, the size of their stadium makes it easier to get tickets.
Yeah, punish us now
How have so many of your tickets ended up with Cologne fans? I'm not advocating Arsenal being punished, I just wonder what UEFA's view will be.
That's a good support. Just stop with smashing and kicking as there are families with children on the ground.