Cambuur fans suffer burns as fireworks set off during Dutch league match
Game resumed despite injuries to home fans, but it would have been abandoned if a player or match official had been hit. Dutch side SC Cambuur has said fans suffered burns, hearing damage and eye injuries after visiting Feyenoord supporters threw fireworks during a league match in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands province of Friesland.
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- Fact 1: The match on Sunday was halted for about 20 minutes in the first half when fans in the away section lit large numbers of red flares and threw fireworks.
- Fact 2: Ceferin won’t challenge Infantino for FIFA presidency but tells him to quit Argentina’s Paredes gets 10-game ban for World Cup final scuffle with Spain Mourinho begins second Real reign in Barca but not against old rivals Maresca faces daunting task to succeed Guardiola at Man City Some were aimed towards sections of the ground containing Cambuur supporters, while one exploded on the pitch just a few metres from Feyenoord goalkeeper Tjark Ernst.
- Fact 3: “We need to examine whether the protocol is still appropriate and how we might want to adjust it.” Feyenoord won the match 5-2 to maintain their unbeaten start to the new league season, while newly promoted Cambuur have lost all three of their opening matches.
Game resumed despite injuries to home fans, but it would have been abandoned if a player or match official had been hit. Dutch side SC Cambuur has said fans suffered burns, hearing damage and eye injuries after visiting Feyenoord supporters threw fireworks during a league match in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands province of Friesland.
The match on Sunday was halted for about 20 minutes in the first half when fans in the away section lit large numbers of red flares and threw fireworks. Ceferin won’t challenge Infantino for FIFA presidency but tells him to quit Argentina’s Paredes gets 10-game ban for World Cup final scuffle with Spain Mourinho begins second Real reign in Barca but not against old rivals Maresca faces daunting task to succeed Guardiola at Man City Some were aimed towards sections of the ground containing Cambuur supporters, while one exploded on the pitch just a few metres from Feyenoord goalkeeper Tjark Ernst. “Our own goalkeeper had a flare fired at him and only just managed to avoid it,” said Feyenoord general manager Robert Eenhoorn, describing the incident as “simply terrible”.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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