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Greek authorities have cancelled all team sports matches for two weeks after a mass brawl between rival women's volleyball fans left one man dead.
"All team sports will be suspended... until 13 April," a government spokesman said after a cabinet meeting called to discuss the violence............. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6510735.stm |
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cypezokyli
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| clubs should be made responsible for their funs and pay the price for their actions. |
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100%cypriot
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| cypezokyli wrote: |
| clubs should be made responsible for their funs and pay the price for their actions. |
You have to be carefull with what you say because you might get throttled with one of the netball players BRAS 
Tut Tut Tut these hooligan women just can'not be controlled  |
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100%Cyp, I don't think this is funny.
Someone got killed during the riots.
and FYI the clashes were mainly between the football fans of Olympiakos and Panathinaikos, not the volleyball fans. |
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100%cypriot
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So why did the bbc report about the Netball match ,
Lighten up a little , everyone is getting toooooo serious on the forum |
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100%cypriot
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By the way City maybe my pc doesn't report the news like yours !
Doesn't say any thing about FOOTBALL FANS
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Greek authorities have cancelled all team sports matches for two weeks after a mass brawl between rival women's volleyball fans left one man dead.
"All team sports will be suspended... until 13 April," a government spokesman said after a cabinet meeting called to discuss the violence.
The pitched battle took place between fans of Olympiakos Piraeus and Panathinaikos near Athens.
Witnesses say about 300 fans fought using clubs, knives and stones.
Police detained 18 people during the violence, which Greek media reports suggested had been arranged by fans ahead of the match.
The 25-year-old man who died had head injuries and stab wounds, doctors said. Several other people were injured in the brawl in the Peania area outside Athens.
Violence in sport is something that affects our entire society... and cannot be tolerated
Theodoros Roussopoulos
Government spokesman
"They were jumping on our car for five minutes, they were asking for our mobile phones and stabbed our driver," one witness said.
The deadly brawl, which dominated Greek newspapers and television news, prompted immediate calls for action and criticism that more had not been done to prevent the violence.
"We had warned that this game was dangerous," the head of Greece's volleyball federation, Thanassis Beligratis, was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis called an emergency cabinet meeting on Thursday.
"Violence in sport is something that affects our entire society... and cannot be tolerated," said government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos.
He said the government had agreed on a series of measures, including enforcing a law which would see fans convicted of violence sent to jail rather than serving suspended sentences.
Mandatory surveillance cameras would also be in place at all main football stadiums by 2008, he said.
Endemic violence
The Greek decision to suspend team sports until 13 April echoes similar moves in Italy in February after a policeman was killed in rioting at a football match in Sicily.
Deadly violence plunged Italian football into crisis in February
All football in Italy's top divisions was suspended for a week and stadiums not meeting safety standards were closed.
The suspension in Greece will actually halt matches only for a week, as it includes the Orthodox Easter weekend on 8 April, during which no games are played anyway.
The authorities have long tried to eradicate the violence that is endemic in Greek sport, correspondents say.
Hooliganism mainly affects football and basketball but also breaks out occasionally at other sports such as volleyball and water polo.
Both Olympiakos Piraeus and Panathinaikos have major teams in football, basketball and other sports.
There have been clashes between rival supporters in the past. |
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100%cypriot
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| Sorry i got it wrong , it was Volleyball |
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| 100%cypriot wrote: |
By the way City maybe my pc doesn't report the news like yours !
Doesn't say any thing about FOOTBALL FANS |
I know. Thats why I said FYI. German news reported it. |
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100%cypriot
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but the bbc reported it as Volleyball Fans !
Who is right ? the BBC or The German Media ? |
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Yes, it was a Volleyball match, but as I said here the reports say that the riots were caused by football fans. I don't know who is right. I wasn't there...
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFsport/inhalt/9/0,5676,5259113,00.html
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| Rund 600 Fußball-Hooligans der beiden populärsten Sportvereine Olympiakos Piräus und Panathinaikos Athen waren darin Verwickelt. |
translation: About 600 football hooligans of the two most popular teams Olympiakos and Panathinaikos were involved.
Maybe someone can provide a source from Greece? |
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100%cypriot
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Ok city fair enough , but i was commenting on what i had read and that was the same link that you posted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6510735.stm
ok so i think we are both right but we have not read about football fans being involved on the bbc website |
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| 100%cypriot wrote: |
Ok city fair enough , but i was commenting on what i had read and that was the same link that you posted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6510735.stm
ok so i think we are both right but we have not read about football fans being involved on the bbc website |
yes, you are right. The BBC did not mention that football fans were involved. However that doesn't change my opinion re. your 'funny' reply. |
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100%cypriot
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| 100%cypriot wrote: |
Ok city fair enough , but i was commenting on what i had read and that was the same link that you posted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6510735.stm
ok so i think we are both right but we have not read about football fans being involved on the bbc website |
yes, you are right. The BBC did not mention that football fans were involved. However that doesn't change my opinion re. your 'funny' reply. |
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