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We hope you'll forgive us for not writing a full report on
the UEFA Cup final.
There is now, however, a handy list of links to reports on other sites, which you can find on the match report page.
We've also added a couple of fans reports not of the match, but of their time in Copenhagen. Very disturbing stuff, but essential reading for anyone interested in the truth of what happened.
It seems that the Policing was almost totally ineffectual.
Beer was sold in the ground (but water and hot dogs were, bizarrely, not allowed in). And there's a first-hand account from
someone who was set on and stabbed while walking unprovocatively down a quiet back street.
Go here to read them
There's no question that a small number of English "men" went to
Copenhagen expecting and hoping for trouble, looking forward to the
chance to retaliate when the inevitable Turkish attacks came.
The actions of these people, and those equally mindless people who caused trouble back in London that night, can only be condemned, and we wholeheartedly support the clubs efforts to bring them to book.
But there's a danger that people will lose sight of the root cause of all this. There has been no trouble with Arsenal fans abroad for many years. There has consistently been trouble with
Galatasaray fans at home and abroad, not just involving the English. 2 Leeds fans died. Arsenal fans could easily have
followed them. How long will this have to go on before UEFA act?
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