GEORDIES NICKED

Last updated : 16 October 2003 By Editor
Guardian reports:

‘Some 94 fans were arrested in Breda, where NAC Breda were
beaten 1-0 by Newcastle United, after riots broke out in the
city centre.

‘"We think 87 of the fans are English and that seven are
Dutch," a police spokesman said.

‘"Riots broke out between the two groups of supporters in
the course of the afternoon. They threw bottles and glasses.
One vandal smashed a shop window with a stick, or a bar,
after supporters had fled inside," he added.

‘Dutch police also arrested 41 Polish Wisla Krakow
supporters earlier in the day after they found two axes, a
garotte, three switchblades, kitchen knives, and other
weapons on their bus.

‘The supporters, who were on their way to the Wisla Krakow-
NEC match, which the Polish side won 2-1, were sent back
across the border, police said.

‘Customs police had also stopped two cars full of Poles at
the border in the morning and denied them access to the
country as they were armed with knives and a steel bar