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Flag flap leads to Euro cancellation (Serbia and Albania)

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Post by Original Quill Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:31 pm

A small drone dangling an Albanian banner and circling the soccer field touched off fighting between Serbian and Albanian players and fans, forcing a European Championship qualifier to be called off.

English referee Martin Atkinson halted the match in the 41st minute when a Serbian player grabbed the banner and Albanian players tried to protect it. Several Serbian fans ran onto the field and clashed with Albanian players. The score was 0-0 at the time.

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Post by Ben Reilly Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:04 pm

Wow ... not excusing the fighting, but apparently whoever was controlling the drone (not reported that I could see) flew it low enough that a Serbian player actually grabbed it.

Seems to me Serbia deserves three points for this episode ...

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0370b2925ad44aa18c4d80129583fbca/drone-banner-force-end-euro-soccer-qualifier
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Post by Original Quill Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:02 am

Albanians!

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Post by Ben Reilly Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:20 am

Original Quill wrote:Albanians!

Yeah, if you check out the description in the link of that banner, it was probably very offensive to the Serbs. I've met a good number of Serb immigrants here who were just so happy to get away from all that mess ...
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Post by Andy Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:25 am

Blimey, when you mentioned flap and drones, I thought this thread was going somewhere completely different.
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Post by eddie Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:34 pm

Handy Andy wrote:Blimey, when you mentioned flap and drones, I thought this thread was going somewhere completely different.

Oh. Right. Bet you were well disappointed then. Flag flap leads to Euro cancellation (Serbia and Albania) 2300614393
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Post by Original Quill Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:52 pm

Handy Andy wrote:Blimey, when you mentioned flap and drones, I thought this thread was going somewhere completely different.

Right...when I opened up the section, I had to look twice as well. I don't generally use the term 'flap' nor have I ever been to any of these so-called fringe sites. But then I remember I just used the title of the article I took it from.

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