Reported that up to 300 Chelsea fans fighting and rioting smashing up shops in Paris are thatMaybee are mainly in their 40/50s from the headhunters!
Surely by that age they should have got over this?
Anyway one way to stop it? 10 year ban on Chelsea in Europe after this and maybee ra might pull the cash then
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sounds like a lot of effort just to smash a few coffee stands up.
absolute plums.
And should have well grown out this behaviour by now
From sky news:
French police have confirmed no arrests took place during an incident involving Chelsea supporters in Paris prior to their game against Paris St-Germain.
It has been confirmed that one person was 'lightly injured' in the incident, which according to police reports lasted 'one-and-a-half minutes'.
Early reports claimed around 400 Chelsea fans were involved in the disturbance, which took place in one of Paris' most popular tourist streets, Rue St Denis.
Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters' Federation, stressed the need for fans to respect the local culture when travelling abroad and highlighted the vast decrease in trouble caused by British fans in the past 20 years.
"I can't really comment on the Chelsea situation because I don't know the details of it but we always advise fans to be very aware of the local circumstances and if there are any risks there," Clarke told Sky Sports News.
"You have to understand the local culture because some types of behaviour that might be acceptable in this country are not acceptable elsewhere.
"So it's a question of being sensible, streetwise and respecting the culture of the place that you're visiting.
"But I think it should be celebrated that the amount of trouble we've had from English fans abroad has hugely decreased in the last couple of decades and continues to do so."
The FSF has produced a supporters' guide to Brazil in time for this summer's World Cup and Clarke urged anyone planning to visit the tournament to obtain a copy.
"Our chief executive has just come back from an advance visit to Brazil and we will be producing a fans' guide for people travelling to Brazil that will give information about travel and local cultures.
"People need to be sensitive to things like that. It's packed with hard information and good advice and our best advice is to get hold of that if you're going to Brazil."
PSG had it coming this goes back to the last meeting of them had me in stitches all the journos on TV and radio saying the Chelsea fans ain't here yet they couldn't understand the late arrival
Most knew this was coming so were getting there as late as possible
What I don't understand is that everyone always says you can't believe what you read in the papers when ever the story doesn't suit their point of view etc, yet the second you get exaggerated rubbish like this written everyone swallows it.
I'm guessing in reality Chelsea took plenty of lads over cos its a big/close game and PSG (one of the most renowned names on the football violence scene) also had loads out so some inevitable trouble broke out and a few coffee/bar stands were tipped over during it.
The fact that FIFA are worried about the Argentinians at the World Cup and the Argie fa and governments total lack of control on stopping known hoolies from travel is the only violence that will take place out there
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/apr/02/chelsea-fans-rampage-paris-champions-league
Wonder how David Baddiel will spin the bit about the nazi salutes?
Disgraceful, cheap journalism aimed at a narrow minded readership who will lap it up sadly.
*edited now read the Guardian article but ditto to them as well
FIFA tried to get Argie fa to commit and they have now renaged on agreement
"PSG's director of security Jean-Philippe d'Halliville told The Associated Press by telephone that some 100 fans from each side - including former members of PSG's notorious and now disbanded Kop of Boulogne hooligan group - fought for up to three minutes before riot police intervened.
He did not give further details on whether there were any arrests or injuries. Despite tight security around the Gare du Nord train station and another known hangout for PSG troublemakers, the violence broke out on Rue Saint-Denis, near to the popular Chatelet area about two hours before the game.
Trouble marred PSG's previous home match against Bayer Leverkusen last month. PSG and Chelsea fans also fought last time the teams played in the competition 10 years ago.
Shards of broken glass and debris littered the Rue Saint-Denis street, where several hundred Chelsea fans had been drinking in and around bars for hours. The fighting was most likely prearranged, d'Halliville said, as it was against Leverkusen, when 40 from each side met outside Odeon metro station in the city's historic centre.
Eleven people were arrested after those fights broke out. PSG has tried hard to eradicate a long-standing hooligan problem. Two PSG supporters died in separate incidents outside Parc des Princes stadium in 2006 and 2010. PSG's group match at Anderlecht earlier this season was considered high-risk and around 150 known PSG hooligans were rounded up by police before that game in Brussels.
In the same area of Paris in December, 2008 PSG and FC Twente fans fought a pitched battle in a side-street close to the landmark St. Michel fountain before their UEFA Cup match, as Christmas shoppers scattered for cover. Hundreds continued their scrapping outside the stadium later that night.
There were violent clashes between PSG and Dinamo Zagreb fans in the Bastille area of Paris the night before PSG's home game last season, despite the French Interior Ministry issuing a decree banning Zagreb fans from attending the match amid fears of trouble. PSG had not provided club travel for its supporters in Zagreb two weeks prior to that after consulting with UEFA.
Last season's league title celebrations turned into a fiasco as fights between fans and riot police left more than 30 people injured and led to several arrests.
PSG had serious problems with hooliganism from 1985 to 2010, as two ends of Parc des Princes - the Kop Boulogne and Tribune Auteuil - were violently opposed. The club then took measures to tackle the issue."