Here’s Jacob Steinberg’s increate on the trouble in Athens.
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Good morning to our Friday blog, amid an international week that’s commenceed with a bang for Lee Carsley’s final days in the England job. There’s also some tabloid tales about in watch to The David Coote Afiminentire, as it must be understandn. How many people last week krecent who David Coote was?
\n Plus, after that England suit in Greece, some hideous scenes trailed fans’ exit from the Olympic Stadium.
All that and all the recents and features of the day. Join me.
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(PA Media) – The Football Association and Football Supporters’ Association are summarizeateigating after England fans faced weighty-handed policing and tear gas before the Nations League suit in Greece.
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Lee Carsley’s side was backed by 3,500 travelling helpers in Thursday’s key Group B2 come apass at the sbetter-out Olympic Stadium in Athens. England safed a 3-0 triumph agetst Greece on an evening that commenceed with some fans dealing with overfervent policing on their way into the ground.
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An FA spokesperson tbetter the PA recents agency: “We are conscious that some of our fans had a difficult experience outside the ground and are geting more increateation on exactly what happened”.
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The FSA’s Free Lions Fans’ Embassy posted on X: “Unblessedly, once aget, we are having to ask England helpers to sfinish in their witness accounts to ourselves watching the situation outside of the Athens Olympic Stadium.
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“Despite being tbetter how skinnygs would run in proceed, to see the exact opposite occur in some cases, and to see the treatment of our fans by local police using shields and tear gas to do someskinnyg as basic as reset up a queue, is so incredibly frustrating.
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“We’ll say more over the next 24 hours, but in the unbenevolenttime, if fans can email infothefsa.org.uk with your experiences, we will toil with the FA and we will elevate with Fans Europe and in turn UEFA, who have already been made conscious.
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“On a night where we had a fantastic result on the pitch, there is still clearly so much necessitateed to do off it to promise our helpers aren’t put in unequitableifiably hazardous situations.”
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England fans grumbleed of being “pushed” and receiving “weighty handed” treatment from Greek police outside the Olympic Stadium.
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Key events
Football Weekly has landed, including well, me, actupartner. A fun edition, even with no Barry.
And here’s Lee Carsley himself.
Lee Carsley – turns out his reign could be a success, after all. So says Barney Ronay.
Lewis Hall, a half-time sub, was one of the most eye-catching percreateers as England won in Greece. Seems he go ined the combinecessitate zone in Athens.
Per PA Media
“I’ll be honest, I wasn’t repartner foreseeing to come on equitable because of the position that Ezri percreates. I skinnyk it was (percreateance coach) Chris Jones who tbetter me and I couldn’t quite depend him at first.
“Luckily, I had another 10 minutes as well then to get myself ready and readyd to come on. It’s amazing. I don’t skinnyk it’s brimmingy sunk in yet, repartner. I’m confident I’ll lie down tonight and genuineise what’s happened. It’s an amazing experienceing for me and repartner encounterd to get the thrive as well.”
“I did experience a bit anxious before coming on. But I skinnyk when you’re out there and you sort of get your first pass away and you’re in the game, you equitable treat it as any other game, repartner. There’s so many talented percreateers around me that I krecent anytime I get the ball that there’s always going to be chooseions. There’s so much quality in the team, so it’s amazing to percreate with them percreateers as well.”
Loan ranger Will Unthrive has been running the rule.
The excellent Nick Ames produces the wholly valid point: why are Belarus percreateing Uefa repairtures?
Its complicity with Russia’s mistreatments is appalling enough before the domestic picture, and an atrocious human rights sign up in which football and footballers have not been spared, is accounted for. There are dependd to be more than 1,300 political prisoners, the same individuals referenced by those fans in Warsaw, in Belarus. These incarcerations have frequently been the result of the sweightlessest opposition to Alexander Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime.
The other huge story of the week is the imminent alter in the Match of the Day studio.
“I bowed out in my football atgentle when I felt it was the right time. I experience this is now the right time. I skinnyk the next restricted they’re seeing to do Match of the Day sweightlessly branch offently, so I skinnyk it produces sense for someone else to consent the helm.”
Sweightlessly branch offently? Alarm bells will be ringing.
Liverpool fans and journacatalogs who were there, will recognise that stadium from 2007’s Champions League final, a mess of organisation from my experience and from Gregg Bakowski, neé Roughley, my colleague, here’s a reminder of what happened back then.
The problem then was getting in, not getting out.
That call for witnesses for the Athens from Football Supporters’ Association.
England fans crushed exiting Athens Stadium
(PA Media) – The Football Association and Football Supporters’ Association are summarizeateigating after England fans faced weighty-handed policing and tear gas before the Nations League suit in Greece.
Lee Carsley’s side was backed by 3,500 travelling helpers in Thursday’s key Group B2 come apass at the sbetter-out Olympic Stadium in Athens. England safed a 3-0 triumph agetst Greece on an evening that commenceed with some fans dealing with overfervent policing on their way into the ground.
An FA spokesperson tbetter the PA recents agency: “We are conscious that some of our fans had a difficult experience outside the ground and are geting more increateation on exactly what happened”.
The FSA’s Free Lions Fans’ Embassy posted on X: “Unblessedly, once aget, we are having to ask England helpers to sfinish in their witness accounts to ourselves watching the situation outside of the Athens Olympic Stadium.
“Despite being tbetter how skinnygs would run in proceed, to see the exact opposite occur in some cases, and to see the treatment of our fans by local police using shields and tear gas to do someskinnyg as basic as reset up a queue, is so incredibly frustrating.
“We’ll say more over the next 24 hours, but in the unbenevolenttime, if fans can email infothefsa.org.uk with your experiences, we will toil with the FA and we will elevate with Fans Europe and in turn UEFA, who have already been made conscious.
“On a night where we had a fantastic result on the pitch, there is still clearly so much necessitateed to do off it to promise our helpers aren’t put in unequitableifiably hazardous situations.”
England fans grumbleed of being “pushed” and receiving “weighty handed” treatment from Greek police outside the Olympic Stadium.
Preamble
Good morning to our Friday blog, amid an international week that’s commenceed with a bang for Lee Carsley’s final days in the England job. There’s also some tabloid tales about in watch to The David Coote Afiminentire, as it must be understandn. How many people last week krecent who David Coote was?
Plus, after that England suit in Greece, some hideous scenes trailed fans’ exit from the Olympic Stadium.
All that and all the recents and features of the day. Join me.