Premature joy robs Israeli team of football cup

[LooneyToonArmy]

Premature joy robs Israeli team of football cup 

 

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Football fans celebrating what they thought was a cup final victory just minutes before the final whistle, cost Israeli team Beitar Jerusalem their winning trophy late on Sunday.

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Four minutes before time, thousands of supporters rushed on to the pitch as Beitar was leading Maccabi Herzliya 1-0.

 

Unable to clear the field so play could continue, the referee suspended the match, giving victory to Maccabi by default.

 

The behaviour of the Beitar fans, well known for their excesses and far-right views, was all over the front pages of Israeli newspapers on Monday.

 

"Those people are abnormal and idiots," said club owner Arcady Gaydamak, an Israeli-Russian billionaire who plans to stand as candidate for mayor of Jerusalem later this year.

 

In November, the Israeli Football Association banned Beitar fans from two home matches after they booed through a minute's silence in memory of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

 

Some fans even sang songs praising Rabin's murder by Yigal Amir, a Jewish extremist who was jailed for life after he shot the Nobel peace laureate three times in the back following a Tel Aviv peace rally on November 4, 1995.

 

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is a prominent supporter of Beitar but has spoken out against the behaviour of his fellow fans, who have been involved in repeated disturbances with followers of Israeli Arab clubs over the years.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=afp-fblisrisraeloffbeat&prov=afp&type=lgns

[Newcastle Fan]

 

Arcady Gaydamak..isn't he the owner of pompy aswell

[Guest Stephen927]

 

Arcady Gaydamak..isn't he the owner of pompy aswell

 

His son, Alexandre, owns Portsmouth.

[relámpago blanco]

 

Arcady Gaydamak..isn't he the owner of pompy aswell

 

Nah thats Sacha Gaydamak

[sicsfingeredmong]

This just further strengthens the case, and you only have to read some of the factual accounts where this mob are concerned, that a large percentage Beitar's matchgoing supporter-base are the most unruly bunch of shitebags in world football, and that includes the more reported examples in Spain & Italy ie. Lazio ................. and the outcome here - ie. losing their domestic cup by default/disqualification - is a fitting and long overdue one.

[sicsfingeredmong]

 

In November, the Israeli Football Association banned Beitar fans from two home matches after they booed through a minute's silence in memory of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

 

Some fans even sang songs praising Rabin's murder by Yigal Amir, a Jewish extremist who was jailed for life after he shot the Nobel peace laureate three times in the back following a Tel Aviv peace rally on November 4, 1995.

 

 

 

............ and directing death chants, and an accompanying chorus along the lines of 'you'll never be one of us', towards the Arab-Israeli who scored against the Dutch a few years back, when the aforementioned Israeli international's domestic club visited Beitar a week or so later.