Big Sam said:
It's a surprise UEFA allowed Serbia and Albania to be put in the same group given Kosovo. Mind you, this is the 3rd successive qualifying campaign where Serbia fans have pulled shit. Closed stadiums ain't working - time for point reductions.
Yes, it's a surprise given Spain and Gibraltar can't be in the same group and Armenia and Azerbaijan (due to Nagorno-Karabagh dispute) as well. These are fourth qualifiers that Serbia was "drawn" in the same pool with risky opposition (Croatia twice, Bosnia once and now Albania). It looks like someone (read: UEFA) is interested to expel Serbia for the long term from the competitions.
langpark said:
The drone and albanian flag was pretty funny, never seen anything like it...
Would it be funny to you if I tell you that the flag was not Albanian, but depicted map of "Greater Albania", which includes not only parts of Serbia, but parts of Montenegro, FYROM and Greece, too.
When Serbian players caught the flag and pulled the drone down, few Albanian players started brawl. Albania captain later twitted that this flag is the prettiest in the World, and it's not even his country's flag. So, this was not an incident, I would say it's well organised political provocation. The drone was remote-controlled by Albanian prime-minister's brother who was guest of honour in VIP box. When he was arrested and interrogated, he showed US passport and released to go home.
Few Serbian supporters jumped over the fence to take over the flag again, and that's the only Serbians fault. When the match commissioner and the referee called Albanian team to continue the game, they refused. They also refused to give the drone as an evidence to UEFA representative. So, Serbia should be awarded 3-0 forfeit win, and the both FA's should be penalised financially with no-fans home ties for Serbia until the end of the qualifiers. Anything other would be complete joke, but the joke is likely to happen, because Albanians bought a whole new country, why shouldn't they buy a single soccer game.
