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Lazio fans make stink about team’s poor results

Angry Lazio supporters dumped bags of manure at the club’s training ground on Friday, leaving the players in no doubt as to their current standing in fans’ affections.

Published: 12 December 2015 18:13 CET
Lazio fans make stink about team's poor results
Lazio concede a goal to fierce local rivals, Roma. Photo: Filippp Monteforte/AFP

Supporters also unfurled banners at the gates of the Formello base in the Rome suburbs, blasting the current team’s performances as well as club president Claudio Lotito.

“You want to drown in the shit, but first we will make you eat it” read one while another said: “Lotito: Since you eat everything, eat this too.”

Lazio are currently 12th in Serie A after a terrible run of five defeats and one draw.

Last week, fans of city rivals Roma also staged a bizarre protest by presenting the players with carrots.

A banner helped to explain the coded meaning of the unusual gift: “Bon Appetit Rabbits,” it read. In Italian, the word for rabbit, “coniglio”, is synonymous with coward.

 

FOOTBALL

Berlin football fans knock over mock-up wall before match

A replica of the Berlin Wall separated the teams before Hertha Berlin's home Bundesliga tie against RB Leipzig at the city's Olympic Stadium, part of Saturday's celebrations making the 30th anniversary of the fall of the original wall.

Published: 9 November 2019 17:05 CET
Berlin football fans knock over mock-up wall before match
People knock over a mock-up of the former Berlin Wall during a performance prior to the German first division Bundesliga football match Hertha BSC Berlin v RB Leipzig. Photo: Odd Andersen/AFP
During the warm up a lightweight replica of the Berlin Wall, which fell on November 9, 1989 stood on the halfway line, bearing the message “Against walls together with Berlin”, which was then “knocked down” before kick-off.
   
Hertha, who organised the gesture, played in the same style shirts they wore in the 1989/90 season.
   
“We're playing in a retro jersey to remind us, and the whole of Germany, of Hertha Berlin's first match, which East and West Berliners were able to experience together in the Olympic Stadium,” explained board member Paul Keuter.
   
This weekend, Germany's capital is celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which was built by the communist East German regime in 1961 and divided the city during the Cold War era.
   
Hertha Berlin lost 1-0 at neighbours FC Union when the capital city's teams met last Saturday in their first Bundesliga derby.
 
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