31 March 2018

Five 'small' and one worst-ever fines

Four days from now the European competitions are going to resume with its quarter final duels, and UEFA from last and this week will collect a good amount (huge is a 'small' word to say, but decent is a correct one...except for the last penalty).
Champions league: From this tournament in total there are two punishments. Manchester City and Basel, who played on the first Wednesday this month, ended this duel with a well known win for the visitors. However, this historic night was spoiled with fireworks from Switzerland supporters, so yesterday the organization have decided that the club has to give away 8.000 euros. The following morning after the match with Real Madrid, L'Equipe newspaper reported that PSG fans lighted up in their own stadium 150 fireworks on 06 March. Whether that was the exact number or not, we will never know, but from last Thursday French champions are going to say goodbye to 43.000 euros. In addition to that in this fine is added: blocking stairways, lasers and too little security personnel...or in short - poor organization. Also, the team has to close part of its stadium, and that will happen next season (in September) because the club already qualified for 2018/19 tournament.
Europa league: In this section we begin with Crvena Zvezda - CSKA Moscow match from the first knock-out round. Fans from both clubs caused troubles with fireworks plus:  home team has blocked stairways and has to give 31.000 euros, while their opponents are penalized with 1.000 euros less (30.000 euros) as spectators threw various objects on the pitch. Last Thursday Olympique Marseille was penalized for the game against Athletic Bilbao which was this March. Due to serious fighting and fireworks from their fans the team has to: deliver 30.000 euros and forbidden to sell tickets as visitors for the next 2 games (first is going to be next Thursday against RasenBallsport Leipzig) plus the club got suspension for a probationary period of 2 years. And from today has been announced the biggest and record fine to date: one million euros in payment and 10 years out of European competitions - this burden belongs to Skenderbeu. The club from Korce is accused of match-fixing after suspicious plays in group phase games from 2015, when was playing with Besiktas, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. The Albanian team has announced that it will fight this injustice at the highest sporting and the Supreme court in Switzerland. There are couple of more problematic duels from this competition, but the decision for those are going to be judged later on.
All punishments here are in bold, so if you are good in mathematics you can calculate how many euros the European football organization will be rich from just 14 days.

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