A 2-2 draw in the second leg of the Champions League playoff between Legia Warsaw and Steaua Bucharest put the combination score at 3-3 and allowed the guests to advance to the the group stage on away objectives. Before the match, Legia fans were more targeted on another adversary, though: competitors organizers UEFA.
Earlier this month, UEFA ordered the Polish champions to pay a €30,000 wonderful and shut the north stand of their stadium — house to the club’s troublemaking ultras — for Tuesday’s match as punishment for racist habits during their second qualifying round tie against Welsh membership The New Saints FC. So prior to the second-leg match aignast Steaua, Lega supporters choreographed a big show within the membership’s colors that spelled out “UEFA Ultra Extreme Fanatical Ambiance” with a heart as a background. It then disintegrated into an orgy of flares that told the executive physique precisely how they felt in regards to the sanctions.
The show was paying homage to Eskisehirspor fans responding to the Turkish FA banning flares by holding up a giant troll face banner with flares burning by way of it last yr. The lesson here? Never underestimate football supporters’ capability to flout authority with pyrotechnics.
(through @AidanHarkin1)
Legia Warsaw fans respond to UEFA sanctions with massive pyro display
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