CSKA Moscow Fans Delay Match With Spectacular Flares
Photo: Srdjan Stevanovic/ [object Object] Traveling Russian fans delayed the second half of CSKA Moscow’s Europa League draw against Red Star Belgrade thanks to a terrifying flare offensive. The Moscow faithful set off a fiery blaze during the break and the pyrotechnics created a spectacularly hellish effect, with a wall of flames lining the barrier that separated the crowd from the pitch.
Unsurprisingly—as evidenced by this photo that Getty Images promises me is from a soccer game and not, like, some secret Brooklyn club I am not cool enough to get into—the smoke from the flares drifted onto the field, to the point where TV viewers could barely tell what was happening. That caused a short stoppage in play while visibility returned.
Photo: Srdjan Stevanovic/ [object Object] Amazingly, however, nobody appears to have been injured by the flares, and neither the firemen nor the riot police standing by intervened. By Russian soccer fan standards, that makes this inferno a rousing success.


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