LIVE: Chelsea vs Manchester Town (FA Cup semis) Slots Chelsea face City to return FA Cup target to centre stage after scuffles at Wigan compared to Millwall borrowed some mastery Reuters, Ahram On line, Sunday 14 Apr 2013 Connected The fit commences at 17:00 CLT (15:00 GMT) Preview: Sunday's next FA Cup semi-final between subject members Chelsea and Manchester City was always likely to overshadow the very first Wigan Athletic vs Millwall match - and that'll be the case, inspite of the violence at Wembley on Saturday. Eleven Millwall fans were arrested and four police experienced accidents after Millwall fans fought one another in scenes now rarely seen at English reasons - and much more rarely at Wembley - as their team was defeated 2-0 by Wigan, who reached the FA Cup final for initially within their 81-year history. Shocking images of the abuse were televised around the globe as a group of Millwall supporters one of the 30,000-plus at their end of the causes turned their back on a well-fought match. The Premier League Wigan deserved their gain, albeit against a well-organised, but fundamentally outclassed Championship (second-tier) side. Subsequent claims produced by the Football Association, the Metropolitan Police and Millwall FC on Saturday night, investigations have started initially to discover the troublemakers and hone in on what started the fighting and marred one of the showpiece events of the English period. An eyewitness sitting among the Millwall fans told The Daily Mail on Sunday that trouble began after a child was knocked to the floor by way of a drunken lover. The eyewitness, a season ticket-holder sitting near where in fact the fighting started, informed the newspaper: "This drunken man came back to his seat and shoved a little child over. The bloke refused to apologise to the little one or his father and the exchange soon became very hot. "Before you knew it two categories of friends had formed and punches were being thrown. There were children around and a number of them would have to be taken outside and got frightened and upset. "After a while the fighting died down, but it began again and was stop-start all the way through the 2nd half. "People were calling on the authorities to obtain involved, but they were taken by it the best part of 30 minutes to intervene and by that point it was too late. Between 10-15 police ultimately acted nevertheless they were chased out. The stewards were nowhere to be seen. Completely useless." The abuse could be seen clearly from the regional press seats at Wembley with the reporters watching in shock whilst the fighting took hold with police and stewards nowhere to be seen. Severe Record Millwall fans have an extended history of violence and their old ground The Den was closed by the authorities in 1920, 1934 and 1950 because of crowd trouble. In 1985 Millwall fans rioted at Luton throughout an Cup quarter-final, still one of the worst individual outbreaks in English football's long connection with hooliganism. Millwall did hard to alter its image of a working class outlaw club, but Saturday's violence will probably undo lots of that energy. The club said in a statement that it would prohibit indefinitely any fans found guilty of being involved in Saturday's chaos, and with the police and FA working in combination, what happened at Wembley is unlikely to be repeated elsewhere, simply because most supporters of the same club do not tend to fight each other. Sunday's semi-final at least gives Wembley - and English football - a sudden opportunity to shift the focus to where it concerns most: on the message with possibly name slots Chelsea or Premier League champions Manchester City set to go back to the venue to handle Wigan in the last on 11 Might. (For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO Sports and on Facebook at AhramOnlineSports) Research Keywords: Short link:
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