VfB Stuttgart should proceed to fret: UEFA has rejected the membership’s enchantment in opposition to a looming double penalty. That is reported by ‘kicker’, amongst others.
As a result of the usage of pyrotechnics on the away sport in Basel within the Europa League, UEFA not solely imposed a hefty wonderful but in addition a suspended spectator ban. If pyrotechnics are used once more at an away sport within the subsequent two years, VfB followers will likely be excluded from the next away match. VfB appealed in opposition to this, however with out success.
However that is not all: An analogous risk looms over the followers for house video games! An analogous suspended penalty is already in place, stemming from incidents throughout a Champions League match in opposition to Atalanta Bergamo. Again then, the closure of a number of sections was even threatened.
The extremely teams, together with “Commando Cannstatt 1997”, criticize UEFA’s “zero-tolerance coverage”, particularly concerning pyrotechnics. They see it as a “struggle in opposition to free, self-determined, colourful, and typically inconvenient fan sections,” writes ‘kicker’ in its report.
Regardless of all the difficulty, issues are going properly on the sports activities entrance: After the 2-0 victory in opposition to Feyenoord Rotterdam, VfB nonetheless has an opportunity to qualify straight for the spherical of 16.
📸 THOMAS KIENZLE – AFP or licensors
