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Old 10-09-2004, 07:57 PM   #4
Kakero
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I didn't see the match ( though I know the result is 2 - 2 ) but basing my opinion on Johnny's posts.

The Macedonian only hurl insults ,racists as it may be, nothing else than that. That won't stop the match. Now if they hurl stones, coins, bottles etc ( Did they throw those? ). Then the referee have the right to stop the match.

However,to my understanding is that if the referee were to put what the Macedonain fans did in his report. FIFA may look at the match then. And may do something like to punish the Macedonia playing in a empty stadium in their next or remaining home matches if FIFA deem that Macedonian fans did was a match stopping incident or can harm anybody ( like the one happen to the swiss referee ). However, in this particular case, usually FIFA may just let it go.

[ 10-09-2004, 08:19 PM: Message edited by: Kakero ]
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