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New incidents with Hungarian fans at Wembley too

The London police pulled out the mattresses. A sad picture for the England-Hungary kick-off.

Hungary scored a fine point against England (1-1) in World Cup qualifying group I on Tuesday evening, but the evening was overshadowed by new incidents with Hungarian fans. Shortly before kick-off, they allegedly treated a flight attendant racially. Things got out of hand when the police wanted to make arrests.

About a thousand Hungarian fans attended Wembley and during the match they were delighted by the excellent performance of their national team against England. However, it was not a perfect evening and the Hungarian fans took care of that a few minutes before kick-off when a dozen of them clashed with law enforcement.

The riots were sparked by a flight attendant, according to the London police.

The police wanted to make arrests after which things got out of hand. One Hungarian fan was bleeding to the head after London police attacked the worst hotheads with mattresses.

Shortly before kick-off, Hungarian fans booed the English players as they got on their knees to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Hungarian Football Association threatens to be punished again after it was already sentenced by the European and world football associations UEFA and FIFA for four games behind closed doors because of racist and homophobic incidents during the last European Championship and their meeting in September against England (0-4 defeat). ).

In the same World Cup qualifying group, Albania-Portugal (0-1) was shut down for a while because bottles were thrown on the field.

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