The line between fans and hooligans

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The line between fans and hooligans

Jul 18, 2007

WELL CONTAINED: Vetra fans, at a later match, supporting their side by wearing the team colors. Hooligans, by contrast, deliberately avoid team colors in order to make themselves less identifiable to police.

By now everyone in Lithuania knows the infamous tale of that July 8 match, when what was supposed to be a low-key UEFA Intertoto Cup bout between FK Vetra Vilnius and Poland’s Legia Warsaw turned into anything but. The match was abandoned at half time after Polish fans, upset that their team was losing 2:0, began to riot, attacking police with metal bars, burning flares and lumps of stone. After witnessing a more typical league match at the Vetros stadium five days after the ill-fated FK Vetr ...

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