Spurs Fans Attacked in Rome.

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Europa League - Tottenham fans 'stabbed' in Rome attack
Ten Tottenham Hotspur fans were injured, one seriously, in an attack in the early hours of Thursday ahead of the Europa League match against Lazio in Rome.

Police said a group of masked assailants attacked the 10 - nine British and one American - outside a pub in the centre of Rome.

Two men were believed to have been stabbed. One suffered injuries to an artery and is in a serious condition - he has been named as Ashley Mills.

Seven fans were taken to three different hospitals in Rome - San Camillo, Santo Spirito and Fatebenefratelli. Three of the injured men were named as Dave Lesley, Stephen Tierney and Christopher Allen.

Reports said between 30 and 50 Lazio 'ultras' attacked the men armed with knives, baseball bats, belts and knuckle dusters.

The incident took place outside the Drunken Ship pub, which was subsequently wrecked.

An eyewitness told the AGI news agency:"They were everywhere, a group of them didn't let anybody enter or leave (the pub). It all lasted a few minutes".

A police spokesman declined to identify the attackers but said a number of Italians who were involved in the fight had been detained.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/europa-league-tottenham-fans-injured-rome-attack-093804996.html

[Fivex]

Horrible ****ers

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Blocked the exits, then proceeded to stab. Must have been terrifying for those people.

[Pablo]

I can't resist....so the "Drunken Ship pub" which was subsequently "wrecked"?

[ChesterDave]

Italian football fans and knife/football violence? British football fans getting stabbed in rome? Its all too depresingly familiar. Threat from UEFA to ban them - not a chance.

[Shanks]

Horrible, cowardly *******s...

I'm sure the police arrived just as they were running away..

How did they not get on to the fact that up to 50 fans armed with bats and knives were walking through the city..

Sounds like a scence out of The Warriors..

[Reece]

Maybe I'm being unfair, but this sort of thing seems to happen everytime an English team goes to Rome. When will something be done about it?

[Tee]

Maybe I'm being unfair, but this sort of thing seems to happen everytime an English team goes to Rome. When will something be done about it?

When UEFA has a British President. Until then, it really is a case of the UK v Europe.

[ChesterDave]

Maybe I'm being unfair, but this sort of thing seems to happen everytime an English team goes to Rome. When will something be done about it?

It won't. All the violence English fans had to suffer in Turkey was ignored till Switzerland had a little kafuffle on the pitch then all of a sudden Blatter was all over the need to tackle the problem.

[kev776]

As a German once said to me, we will never get any protection because it is called "English disease". We invented it and exported it so must suffer the consequences.

[lickedlollipop]

it was accident waiting to happen. i don't want to make some stereotype, but lazio fans are known as pro-fascist or pro-extreme right oriented.

**** em i hope attackers will be punished. it's horrible club btw. really don't know how Klose end up in such club.

[Reece]

A bit of detail on it on the timeline

https://twitter.com/hirstclass

Gas canisters FFS

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Just heard a reporter on 5live saying the police had said the arrested fans may be Roma fans, and that they were shouting Jews! Jews! Jews! as they attacked.

[Norbs]

Just heard a reporter on 5live saying the police had said the arrested fans may be Roma fans, and that they were shouting Jews! Jews! Jews! as they attacked.

Or Lazio fans in Roma kits.

[BobTheCharmer]

Just heard a reporter on 5live saying the police had said the arrested fans may be Roma fans, and that they were shouting Jews! Jews! Jews! as they attacked.

reading other threads, if they'd been draped in the palastinian flags, it would have been justified.