DUTCH AGGRO

Last updated : 19 April 2005 By editor

Guardian

Dutch football authorities are considering banning away fans following serious rioting that occurred before Sunday's Feyenoord versus Ajax game at the De Kuip stadium, won 3-2 by the Amsterdam club.

‘Ajax hooligans wrecked two trains carrying them from Amsterdam shortly before they arrived at the station near Feyenoord's ground in Rotterdam. The mayors of Amsterdam and Rotterdam took the decision to lock the Ajax fans out of the stadium. But they refused to dissipate from the station and trouble flared when fans from Feyenoord descended on them there.

‘"The group on the station didn't leave before the end of the match, so after the game the Feyenoord fans were looking for a confrontation, which forced us to make a baton charge to clear up the situation around the train station," said Hans Stoop of the Rotterdam police service. In a separate incident two Feyenoord fans were seriously injured and hospitalised by a home-made firework "bomb".’