Saturday, October 4, 2008

ESPANYOL TO BE FINED 18,500 EUROS.

During the match played on saturday the 27/9/2008 between Barcelona and Espanyol. This game was halted in the second half foe a period of ten minutes , due to crowd trouble.
The crowd through flares onto the pitch . The footballers left the pitch under police escort and came back after ten minutes.
Cameras show that the flares came from the top row of the stand to people on the lower stands. At this time Espanyol were leading in the game at 1-0.
Six fans were caught on the camera in action throwing the flares. And now each fan will be fined 65,000 euros each..And Espanyol will be fined 18,500 euros, for failing to control its fans.

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