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Hamburg Derby
The pros and cons of pyrotechnics at football have long been discussed, including on this very blog. Whether a fan or not of them though, it would take a rabid rightwinger to suggest the answer to stopping the use of flares and smokebombs is for the police to expose a large section of the crowd to the risk of serious injury.
St Pauli beat HSV 1-0 in the derby on Wednesday night, a moment that fortunately can and should be treasured by the vast majority of fans, who were unaware of what was going on in other parts of the ground. Nevertheless, a pause for thought around police tactics is urgently needed. A report from the website European Football Weekends…
http://europeanfootballweekends.blogspot.com/2011/02/hsv-v-fc-st-pauli.html