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by **LFC #1** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:40 am

story from soccernet.com

Thursday, September 30, 2004

'Millwall fan' stabbed in Budapest

BUDAPEST, Sept 30 (Reuters) - One man was stabbed in violence before the UEFA Cup tie between Hungarian champions Ferencvaros and English side Millwall on Thursday.
'Eight people were taken to hospital, out of these, seven had light injuries, however there is one man who speaks English who was stabbed in the back,' said Pal Gyofi, a spokesman for the Budapest ambulance service.

He said it was not clear whether the man was actually English and the extent of his injuries was not known.

Police said there were scuffles in the centre of the city before kickoff at 1900 GMT and that mounted police were deployed at the stadium as Millwall fans arrived without tickets.

A police spokesman said the problem at the ground with the ticketless fans was diffused quickly and a Reuters reporter said there was no trouble inside the stadium although there were reports of teargas being fired outside.

A police spokesman said that between 1,500 and 3,000 Millwall fans had arrived for the match -- the London club's first in European competition.

Millwall had a ticket allocation of 1,500 for the second leg of the tie which was won by 3-1 by Ferencvaros, after the first leg had ended 1-1.

Ferencvaros were recently fined for crowd trouble at a Champions League qualifier against an Albanian side and matches with local rivals Ujpest are regularly marred by violence.

Millwall, who qualified for the UEFA Cup as the losing side in the FA Cup final, have had a history of crowd violence, although the problem has been largely cleaned up by chairman Theo Paphitis in recent years.

The last major crowd violence at Millwall's ground, the New Den in southeast London, was in May 2002 in a playoff semi-final against Birmingham City.

same old Millwall, wonder what it's going to be like whwn we go down to play em in the Carling Cup, they have improved over the years but they still have the tag of being hooligans, and this sort of thing doesn't help it.

by **A.B.** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:08 am

Strange stuff going on in Europe. Two Arsenal players got into a fight, Mourinho got spat on and this? Crazy times in European competions.

by **taff** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:09 am

Yeah strange indeed

by **A.B.** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:12 am

And also the Roma incident with the ref which happend two weeks ago.

by **Ciggy** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:53 am

Millwall fans not the only ones fighting last night, boro fans where at it aswell. But boro fans arnt known for violence I would just like to point out these baltic teams turkey an polish, hungarian fans are known trouble causes, and probably instigate the fighting with english fans getting the blame as they are labelled hooligans before they even go anywhere.
Im not saying english are all innocent but these teams and there police have alot to answer too.
Also on arsenal

Barny on the bus with lauren and vierra thats gona go down well.
They blamed Lauren for letting a goal in :laugh:

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I dont know about wenger in europe hes a great manager in the prem, but he plays defending football in the CL and that is why arsenal will never win it.

by **zarababe** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:19 am

..far right clans plan all sorts when such matches are on .. it's worrying if the phenomenon is "rearing its ugly head" again

by **106-1093504160** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:24 am

millwall have a history, am i right in thinking they are behind the infamous inter city firm, or was that west ham?

by **laza** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:27 am

i think West Ham were the inter city firm

by **106-1093504160** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:13 pm

how do you know laza you say your in oz, or is that oswestry?

by **laza** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:30 pm

Well here in Oz we have a thing called TV.........not sure how it works but if you can find a particularly intelligent Oztralian to turn it on it can tell you very interesting things.

On a sidenote when i lived in England back in 86, i remember a newstory of a Milwall fan smashing a bottle into face of woman who happened to be wearing a red jumper. She had nothing to do with football, its just that Milwall had lost to a team wearing a red strip

by **LFC #1** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:14 am

laza wrote:Well here in Oz we have a thing called TV.........not sure how it works but if you can find a particularly intelligent Oztralian to turn it on it can tell you very interesting things.

by **Dom1** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:43 am

i say let them beat the ****** out of each other until they either cant be arsed or they have killed one another!!

by **Dom1** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:44 am

thinking back to my last post, i believe that wud not be the best option for numerous reasons

by **the great one** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:13 am

Dom1 wrote:i say let them beat the ****** out of each other until they either cant be arsed or they have killed one another!!

very unapporiate :angry:

by **Dom1** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:26 pm

i did say that afterwards man!

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