A SECTION OF Arsenal fans are set to face an investigation from the police and the Football Association after tearing down hoardings at White Hart Lane following Wednesday’s League Cup victory over Tottenham.
The fans are accused of pulling down perimeter boards at the stadium as they celebrated the crucial derby cup win over their fierce North London rivals, while they are also accused of destroying banners attached to the upper tier.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed that 10 arrests were made relating to criminal damage, assault and public disorder offences. A spokesman for Arsenal insisted that the club will fully cooperate with any investigation: “We will work with Tottenham Hotspur and the authorities on this.”
Reports are also emerging that some Arsenal fans sang anti-Semitic chants on their way to the stadium, and it isn’t the first time such accusations have come to light.
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Two goals from Arsenal’s French midfielder Mathieu Flamini won the game for Arsene Wenger’s side and they go on to play Sheffield Wednesday away in the next round.
Soccer fans let down the sport so much it’s ridiculous
They should all strive to be more like Manchester United fans. The game would get a better reputation then.
What was wrong with my true comment? :( Accidental red thumbs no doubt. :)
That’s English Football for you.. Then you have braindead Irish fans arguing with each other over who’s team has the worst fans when in fact their all the same.. Not only that but the hooligans who their arguing over hate the Irish…
@David Garland. How many supporters go and watch English teams each week? Do you know? Are they fenced in like on the continent? Do you know? What’s the population of Dublin, do you know? How many arrests on a drunken Dublin night do you know? Yet as a result of one incident and an initial ten arrests you brand English football so negatively.
Where have you been the past 30 years? The English are known the world over for their skum Football Fans..
You’re clearly the knowledgable one so I will leave your last comment with you.
Every single club in English Football has a hooligan element to it.. Go onto youtube and search for Man Utd or Chelsea or Arsenal etc and thousands of videos pop up.. It’s part of the culture over there and it’s not just a handful of fans or clubs it’s across the board.. You won’t see Sky Sports broadcasting hooligan fights or away fans having to be escorted into grounds but it happens every single week at every club in England. So that tells me English Football has a problem with fans behaving themselves
And you’re clearly deluded..
I hate football hooliganism, detest it in fact. I grew up with it on the news, a blight on the game which at the time saw British clubs and British and Irish players regularly playing at the top level in Europe and then side lined.
This year there has been the Dutch rioting in Italy, the Germans rioting in Greece, the French regularly rioting in Paris, The polish and Germans fighting and Albania and the Balkans at it.
My work puts me on the front line with it.
What I will say in response to this dark headline, is that ten arrests from what is arguably one of England’s most hostile Derby’s is regrettable but a blip in what has been achieved overall. It’s just a shame the idiots get such a headline.
10 blokes do something and like Chelsea in Paris they blame every supporter that was within 10 miles of it,media tripe is all it is