Swiss Cup Semifinal

Great atmosphere tonight. Going to football a warm spring evening feels like the reward for freezing at various stadiums through winter. Entertaining game where Sion dominated slightly and scored a fantastic goal in 85 minute. Luzern fought back bravely and scored the equaliser in probably 95th minute, incredible scenes in the staduim ensued. Extratime was goal less so it had to be settled through the dreaded penalty shootout. Luzern choked big time and Sion went through. This is when the mayhem started...

watercannons

swiss riot

after the game, outside the stadium swiss riot police fights back
the sion fans with watercannon, this lasts at least 15 minutes. some luzern hotheads tries to get into it as well but from what I saw the fight was between sion fnas and riot police with shields and batons.

Pitch invation Luzern

FCL - Sion Hooligans

Sion beat Luzern on penalties in swiss cup semi. After the game about 50 Sion fans invades the pitch with flags and approaches the Luzern fans. After about 5 minutes of provocation, with no action from police or stewards the Luzern fans finally enters the pitch and chases the sion guys back towards their end. The fighting lasts for maybe five minutes, from what I saw no one was seriously injured, though some were clearly hurt. Disgraceful, i thought this type of hooliganism ended in the 90's but obviously not in Switzerland. Can only hope they identifies the hooligans, most had no cover over their face and TV was every where as the game was on live.

day trip to leitzigrund

gc and yb played an entertaining 3-3 draw with six good goals

lozarn - vaduz 3-1

great victory for luzern. scored
the third in an empty goal after vaduz keeper went to other end of
pitch. playing vaduz is a rare international game in a domestic
league. also surprising that ref lets game play on after linesman has
recieved at least ten plastic cups of beer in the back. in anycase
luzern is back, only a point after vaduz. monday is cup semi at home
looks like it will be sold out.

luzern finally holds on to a lead

and beats bellinzona. may still have a chance to stay up!

hapoel tel aviv - bnei sakhnin

This was an interesting game. Very strong wind and heavy rain. The pitch looked fantastic. Stadium maybe a quarter full and only one stand had a roof. No beer for sale, tea and pretzel had to do. Hapoel had very nice short passing play, especially in the first half hour. Hapoel got a penalty after a beautiful and expressive dive (I was impressed with the extremely high quality dives throughout the game). Their goalkeeper went up and smashed the penalty into the net.

Rain got worse in the second half and so did the quality of the game. Bnei Sakhnin comes from an arab village and has a mixed team which is nice. The game ended 1-0 with Hapoel pressing for a second after the Bnei Sakhnin goalkeeper was sent off after handling the ball outside the area. In all a friendly atmosphere in a ground not far from the sea, this would be great on a sunny day.

taxi driver has a gun...

he also had a deep purple cd he plays on full volume the whole way from the airport to the hotel.

cant complain like the dude though, telling the driver what he thinks about the f-in eagles. would risk entering a world of pain

inter - manchester united

san siro by night

grasshopper club zurich

the ground is almost empty with 4100 spectators. athletics track
around the pitch makes it even worse. the only good thing was that
roland linz (on loan from braga) didnt score.

how depressing it would be to watch grasshoppers in this ground every
week.

away train

today is away day for fc luzern. in typically efficient swiss fashion
sbb has scheduled a train. needless to say it left on time.

Bajen Fans Hockey

In a fantastic triumph of idealism and common sense the bankrupt Hammarby Icehockey team has risen from the ashes. It was not done by administrators taking over after bankruptcy but by the fans themselves.

Rather than trying to salvage the bankrupt club the fans decided to start afresh. This meant playing in a local league (4th division, Western Stockholm, in reality 7th division). It was said it couldn't be done, even the management of the failed team were sceptic.

Now, with only one game left to play, a team comprising of ex-Hammarby players as well as fans who were more used to the terraces than the rinks has secured promotion to 3rd division.

Hopefully this is only the start, we will finally have a team that is run within it economical limits, and always mindful that its existence is only due to its supporters.

AFC Wimbledon , Austria Saltzburg, FC United of Manchester has been joined by Bajen Fans Hockey.

bajen mot kadetten

Jag satt just och funderade pa hur den har bloggen skulle kunna handla mer om bajen nar jag sag det har. BAJEN VAR I SCHWEIZ IDAG. Visserligen handboll men anda. Hade jag vetat om det hade det lungt blivit en tur till schaffhausen. Varfor sa ingen nagot? Kanns riktigt surt, inte sa mycket forlusten men en missad chans att ta pa sig en randig troja. Kanske nan kan bygga nan slags mashup med alla bajen sektioners spelschema och google maps, sa att man kan fa en alert om nagot hander inom nagra hundra kilometer?

http://www.bielertagblatt.ch/News/Sport/134187

young boys of bern in luzern

Idag fick jag lite motvilligt stalla mig pa borta 'laktarn' eftersom en kompis med YB sympatier skulle ga med pa matchen. Jag fick intala mig att jag inte stod bland hundratals gnagare med sprak problem utan att detta var schweizare som gillade bajens tiger randiga alternativ.

Det kanns lite sa dar att hora hundratals grabbar/gubbar ropa efter unga pojkar. Kanske det ar gardare i alla fall? Skulle kunna tro at runt 500 gul svarta var dar. Dom verkade mest intresserade att vifta med flaggor, det var mycket tyst tillochmed efter att dom fick straff och lite senare slog in 2-3 malet pa overtid.

En sang jag nu har hort bade fran marseilles borta sektion och davos hockey grabbar ar den dar som visslas i borjan pa disneys 'robin hood' vet inte om detta ar en vanlig sang nufortiden men later ganska bra faktiskt.

ny stadion

FC Luzern bastamde sig for att dom ville ha en ny stadion. Eftersom det har ar i Schweiz blev det folkomrostming. En annan lag i Schweiz sager att man maste bygga master som visar hur stort en ny byggnad ska bli sa att dom som bryr sig forstar vad som haller pa att handa.

Det visar sig att FCL inte bara vill ha en stadion utan tva hoghus dar bostadsspekulanter kan kopa lagenheter och sen ett kopcentrum brevid. Plus en ny stadion.

Jag vet inte exakt vad dom planerar, men sakerligen ingen staplats. Dom kommer nog att borja salja massa skit med logon pa i butiken, det blir nog en hel del loger. Den moderna fotbollen kommer till stan.

Det kanns lite trist, FCL ar annu i mitten av nittitalet. Dom har 16! produkter i sin web shop. Dom har ol med alkohol i. Borta 'laktarn' ar en slags asfalterad kulle, den tar nog in 1000 pers och har 6 toaletter. Manga skulle nog tycka att det sog att titta pa fotboll har, men det kanns bra som motgift till UEFA MasterCard Cup.

Zugo, Zugo, va fan c....

Poetry of highest order. Note the similar theme to what was sung at Sochaux a couple of weeks ago.

evz-lugano 3-1

Good things with Zug Icehockey; sausages are fantastic. beer has alcohol (though that awful eichof again). there will be goals. ice rink is still shitty and old. its easy to buy tickets.