They were playing at home with a ban on selling tickets to Albanians.. for **** sake how hard is it to understand that?
More lies. The national anthem was sung, the Albanian flag was flown. As for blocking attendance.. again it was UEFA who made that call.
Secondly, that the Serbians sold tickets to Albanians and knew that they were Albanians.. well that is something they will have to answer for.
And what the hell does the fouls in the game have of any relevance? That drone should NOT HAVE BEEN THERE!. He reacted corrected and removed the banner and the officials were far too slow to react. If it had been a fan running on the pitch attacking a player, dont you think the other players would have reacted faster than the officials?
Again not the Albanian flag and thank you for admitting that it was a nationalistic political banner...
If that is the result, then it is a scandal of epic proportions.. rewarding nationalistic bull**** on the world football stage. Albania should be kicked out of the tournament along with Serbia.
Chaos that the Albanian players and someone with a drone started.. ..
We are talking about the clash of two of the worst neo fascist nationalistic countries in Europe, and that kind of crap has no business in sports.. ban the ****ing moronic nations till they learn how to behave like civilized nations.
12’40″ – Lila on ground after a ball taken on face, a firework throwed at him.
14’29″ – 1st throw of smoky
24’33″ – Raising nationalistic greek flag to provoce albanians.
35’11″ – Smoke throwed against, Agolli, while he was taking a corner. Object throwed against him. Match suspended for few moments.
40’45″ – Water bottle throwed against Balaj.
40’58″ – Serbian fans trying to get in field. Stopped by security forces.
41’09″ – Smoke and fireworks on field.
41’13″ – Smoke and fireworks on field, AGAIN. Match suspended for a while.
41’16″ – Refree Atkinson requesting to remove the firework.
41’57″ – The DRONE
and the apocalypse start.
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1. Albanian fans were not allowed to attend the match. Serb authorities said they would arrest anyone who showed any symbol of the visiting team in the stadium — restrictions that are almost unheard of in international football. A few Albanian supporters were able to get in, but the crowd was more than 99 percent Serb.
2. The Serb crowd chanted, “Ubij, Ubij Siptar” – “Kill, Kill the Albanians,” throughout the 40 minutes the game was played. They used the Milosevic-era derogatory term for Albanian, which is akin to the n-word in North America.
3. The stadium was filled with Serb nationalistic political banners, like “Kosovo is Serbia” and other slogans relating to Bosnia and Croatia. The Serb fans loudly booed the Albanian national anthem.
4. Hard objects and fireworks were thrown on Albanian players well before the drone started flying. The few Albanian journalists who had dared to go to Belgrade also reported that they were pelted with hard objects throughout the first half.
5. Ivan Bogdanovic, the Serb hooligan who led the 2010 Italy match riot, was seen invading the pitch (he is not allowed to attend any stadium for 4 years). He served jail time in Serbia after the Italy incident, in which he burned an Albanian flag. That game had to be abandoned as well. Yesterday he led a group of masked supporters into the pitch before being kicked out by police.
6. More than half of Albania’s national team has roots in Kosovo, which split from Serbia in the late 90s in a violent conflict that ended through a NATO intervention 15 years go. The NATO flag was also burned in Belgrade last night. (Albania has been a NATO member since 2009. Serbia is officially EU-minded, but also Russia-friendly.)
7. Despite the harsh political atmosphere in the stadium, the Albanian national team went to play football, and it managed to overcome a shaky first few minutes, moving to gain the upper hand in the field when the interruption happened.
8. The drone came from the outside of the stadium, which means nobody knows who flied it, so there can be no punishment, because the rules were no flags or national symbols inside the stadium by Albanian fans.
9. Albanians may have been very little in number, but no Albanian lets his flag to be torn down or stepped on. And of course they (Xhaka 14 and Lila 2) reached to protect it, but they only wanted to protect the flag and the Serbs started the fight because of that particular fact.
10. The fans rushed into the field and threw chairs and fought Albanian players, so of course they had to fight back to protect each other whilst there were a handful of Albanians vs 30.000 Serbs. Above all the people who were employed to keep the order were kicking and boxing the Albanian Team Captain (Cana 5).
There were so many reasons to close the game before it started.
The drone is just a justification.
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You can turn the facts as you want but blaming Albanians for provocation make such no sense.
Meanwhile, chanting "Kill, kill the albanians", rasing serbian and greek nationalistic flag, burning albanian and nato flag (before the drone appeared) doesn't make so??
. Especially so since the Serbian fans yelled when the Albanian anthem played.
