Anyone just watched the River Plate game!!

River needed to win by 2 goals in the second leg of there relagation 2nd leg game to survive in the top flight of the Argie league.

Well the drew 1-1 and missed a penalty, the game got ended with 2minutes to go as the fans went mad, ripping chairs out. Currently the players are stuck in the middle of the pitch as the fans try and get onto the pitch at them and are getting soaked with water hoses.

Never seen anything like it in my life

 

Exactly what I thought.

 

The Argie league is a very weird one Sid, not sure of the details, but relegation is played over three years or something? So you can win the league in any year (like River) and still be relegated. Nothing like the European leagues. Down there football is life (i have lived in South America - Brazil and Venezuela), only second to God Himself (even then its a close one...) so this would be reaaaaaally quite hard to take for hardcore fans who have never experienced relegation before. Not to mention Boca will be having a field day.

Trying to find some footage of it, but reading alot of tweets come through about it. Sounds ****in mental. Reminds me of Vasco vs Flamengo derbies

 

yep they went down, unlike here and everywer else that I know of the top teams go up and the bottom teams go down. Over there it is different they do a 3season average points system to try and protect the top sides from a one off disaster season.

There fans are mental, wonder how many of the players houses get torched 2night and the bloke who missed the penalty will be in hiding now.

Apparently the fans are smashing all the windows from outside the ground n the police/security are having trouble holding them back.

 

I always thought Fluminense were Flamengo's rivals?

 

just been watching it through mp2p, it was all kicking off, reminded me of the chelsea s.f. back in 85, absolutely hell on, never seen violence like that in a long time, hope they get the book thrown at them. ****ing hell it's like rangers or celtic getting relegated from the spl and i bet boca juniors fans are in dreamland for months if not years

 

http://tn.com.ar/envivo/24hs

this is a pretty good stream of the rioting at the moment, i get the feeling the river plate fans are not taking it to well

 

lets face it river plate going down is slightly different to man utd going down isn't it,

there would be no riots in Manchester, none of there fans know where it is, never mind how to get there.

 

Well, the other 3 big Rio Clubs - Vasco, Fluminese and Botofogo - are all main rivals with Flamengo. From what I remember, Fluminese is more historical for its rivalry. But when when i lived in Rio, Vasco were the biggest threat to Flamengo. They had Romario, Edmundo, Juninho and Luizão . The derby is often played at the Maracana, so 80k people go to watch it. Link to the derby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clássico_dos_Milhões

Vasco famously beat Man Utd in the club world championship back in '99 after they had won the treble. Romario and Edmundo tore Japp Stam a new arsehole with one of the greatest bits of skill ive seen. And this was when Man Utd thought themselves invincible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuiOPuNe0N0

Vasco have sadly taken a turn for the worse, but the football spirit in South America is like no where else in the world.

 

Now if this happened in England there would be hell to pay. Probably clubs being banned etc.


River Plate, one of the world's biggest clubs, suffered the humiliation of relegation for the first time in their 110-year history amid violent scenes and the closure of their Monumental stadium.

The violence from the fans throwing metal bars and stones left 25 people, including six police officers, injured, with one badly hurt after being hit by a car.

A major avenue nearby looked like a war zone with bonfires blazing, shops windows smashed and stores looted.

A city prosecutor ordered the temporary closure of the stadium - exactly four weeks before it is due to stage the final of the Copa America - for an investigation into policing and possible illegal sale of extra tickets.

"We will be looking for proof that more fans got in than is authorised," prosecutor Gustavo Galante told America television, adding the limit allowed by the government for the Monumental is just over 40,000. Observers estimated the crowd at some 60,000.

Galante said his office had asked for the match to be played behind closed doors after an invasion of the pitch by River fans in Cordoba that interrupted the first leg for 20 minutes.

Players of both sides had to leave the Monumental pitch under the protection of stewards while police used high power hoses and tear gas to try to disperse the rioting fans.

Belgrano were later able to celebrate promotion with the few hundred visiting fans, who, for their safety, were kept in their sector of the stands nearly three hours after the final whistle.

Trailing 2-0 after the first leg, River were hoping for a handsome victory to save them from relegation on the 15th anniversary of their second Copa Libertadores title.

They went ahead in the sixth minute when striker Mariano Pavone controlled on the edge of the box, swivelled and shot low into the corner past diving keeper Juan Carlos Olave.

Midfielder Guillermo Farre stunned the crowd when he equalised just past the hour, however, blasting the loose ball past a stranded goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo after a blunder in the River defence.

Olave then sealed River's fate, and his team's 3-1 aggregate victory, with a penalty save from Pavone after a push on fellow striker Leandro Caruso.

Referee Sergio Pezzotta was the butt of criticism from River fans for turning down appeals for a penalty in the first half for what looked like a blatant foul on Caruso.

Former defender Jorge Higuain told Radio Continental that River made a huge mistake 10 years ago in sacking a key figure in their successful youth scheme, Brazilian Delem who played as a forward for the club in the 1960s.

"It went downhill after they got rid of Delem," said Higuain, father of Real Madrid and Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain, who was the last top quality player to emerge from River's junior ranks in 2004.

River, noted for the quality of their football and the players they produced - like former European Footballers of the Year Alfredo di Stefano and Omar Sivori - are paying for a poor 2008/09 campaign, which contributed to their low three-season points average by which relegation is measured.

Their relegation, which comes at the end of a run of nine matches without a win, leaves them facing huge financial losses when they already have massive debts

 

Haway Man...all of thats nowt compared to Edward Thomsons v Redhouse Club on Marley Potts field.......now thats bloody war !!!!!