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Spurs fans attacked in Lyon

Three Tottenham fans suffered minor injuries after being attacked by a masked gang in a bar on the eve of the Europa League game in Lyon.

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dazzo1975 (Tottenham Hotspur) says...

Agree completely with stellaman. We are reaping seeds sewn in the 70s and 80s. Not fair for the fans of this generation but it wasn't particularly fair for the bar and takeaway owners (not to mention the innocent bystanders who went to see their team play a game of football) in the 70/80s either. I don't personally think this was motivated by anti-semitism. If it had been Arsenal or Chelsea or United (or any English club) there would still in all probability have been an incident. It just so happens that it was Spurs and they made nazi salutes.

Posted 8:49am 22nd February 2013

fictionalemu says...

@tk421, as it clear from the landlord's name, the pub is run by foreigners as well as being largely patronised by foreigners, so it seems to be exactly the kind of place ultranationalists would dislike having on their doorstep.

Posted 2:29pm 21st February 2013

stellaman (Manchester United) says...

If there are any football connections with this attack, which despite the anti-semitic slant I am sure there are, then people need to have a good think about who taught these people about football hooliganism in the first place !!! Thank the Gods that we have, pretty much, changed (tamed ?) our travelling fans, but let's not forget that it was our fans that smashed European bars and cities to smithereens for many a long night over the past forty years or so !!! And tk421, they smashed England up as well, you know ?!? Every time England lost an important match they'd come spilling out of the pubs and smash up the very bars and take-aways that they themselves used the rest of the time ... and it didn't need to be "full of foreigners" either, just an easy target for idiots that can't handle drink or failure, let alone at the same time !!!

Posted 2:25pm 21st February 2013

tk421 says...

My mate was there last night when, well, "sh*t got real" as he put it. Scary stuff. Apparently they picked up anything they could that they could smash windows with. Weird isn't it that hyper-nationalist types think that smashing up a local business in their own country is an alright thing to do if it happens to full of foreigners? I think it's weird. It shows a very low level of intelligence. The darker side of football fans has been touched on before on this site in the build up to the Euros last year, and I think it was John Nich who hinted that the media wasn't appropriately grasping the history of the Poland/Ukraine region when covering the issue of prejudice in that area. Wind forward to now and we see what appears to be antisemitism in France: A very modern and ethnically mixed country. Should we be stepping back this time to take into account root causes of prejudice and hatred in such a successful first world country? The answer ought to be "no". Why? Because we all need to accept that some people are just w*nkers...and no amount of over-analytic, Guardian-comment-writer nonsense should cover over the fact that some people are just bad people.

Posted 1:32pm 21st February 2013

ricky villa (Tottenham Hotspur) says...

This was a politically/religiously motivated attack, nothing to do with football really. I think Peter Herbert is behind it all personally! We've had problems with foreign plod in Seville, Milan etc, but strange how we've suffered two consecutive antisemitic attacks since Herbert started blaming all the ills of football on Tottenham fans chanting 'Y*d Army'. Not going to pretend that we've never suffered before, but these two seemed like premeditated attacks from far-right groups, most ofo which aren't even football supporters!

Posted 12:25pm 21st February 2013

gongclough (Tottenham Hotspur) says...

I would welcome Mr Platini's comments on the situation now that natives on his home country have attacked our fans.

Posted 12:07pm 21st February 2013

hincey (Arsenal) says...

@ledleysknee yeah i agree it hurts me to say it but there is a part of me that wants you to beat them! Got to say though it seems Spurs fans are prone to the odd bit of trouble in away Europe games recently.

Posted 11:46am 21st February 2013

dryice says...

what serious crackdown do you recomend then? Considering this happened a day before a football match in a location away from the football club and what seems to be from racist and not football club hoolies. If there was a fight in a pub in tower hill on Tuesday evening during a Dizzee Rascall fans meet up would you hold the music industry accountable because the Brits were happening the following night?

Posted 11:09am 21st February 2013

doogs (Tottenham Hotspur) says...

I agree with ledleysknee, but there's a part of me that thinks..........50 of them? 150 spurs..........should have done em!

Posted 11:01am 21st February 2013

KevinBoatang says...

No doubt UEFA will now charge Spurs for their fans being in Lyon having a drink. Until a serious crackdown happens nothing will change, sadly it seems to be getting worse.

Posted 10:39am 21st February 2013

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