No distance, no soccer. In Denmark, they (rightly) take the corona measures in the stadium seriously. The cup final between Sonderjyske and Aalborg was temporarily shut down because the supporters were too close together. In Bulgaria it was also bumblebee during the cup final.
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After more than half an hour, referee Burchardt gave it up at the Blue Water Arena in Esbjerg. The Danish supporters did not keep enough distance from each other and so he felt compelled to temporarily stop the game. After several announcements by the announcer, fans of Aalborg in particular continued to stand and sit too close together.
Some supporters immediately obeyed, other hard of hearing fans had to leave the stadium. The delay lasted almost fifteen minutes. Players, staffers and stewards tried to convince Aalborg fans to keep more distance from each other. The police expelled a number of hard leather spectators from the stadium and made a number of arrests. Outside the stadium, the police cracked down on some fans.
???????? The referee in the Danish Cup Final suspended the game after @AABSportDK fans didn’t observe social distancing.
???? Some fans went back to 1m from each other…
❌ …but others who didn’t were kicked out of the ground.
???? A football first. pic.twitter.com/dsLQYfvPMr
— SPORF (@Sporf) July 1, 2020
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The game was resumed. Sonderjyske won 2-0. Immediately good for the first cup in the history of the club.
YES, WE ARE POKALMESTERS ????. We take our first trophy, and now stop where it dresses us ????. Anders K. Jacobsen with both cups ⚽️⚽️. Happy party, Southern Jutland ????. JAAAAAAA????. #sydbankpokalen pic.twitter.com/LmgEWmX8da
– Southern Jutland Football (@SEfodbold) July 1, 2020
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Also amok during Bulgarian cup final
Bulgarian football fans massively broke the rules of the corona at the cup final between Lokomotiv Plovdiv and CSKA Sofia on Wednesday. Most of the 12,000 visitors kept their distance from each other and instead of wearing mouth masks they sang en masse. Lokomotiv won after penalties, 5-3.
Bulgarian head of government Boyko Borissov had nevertheless sent Minister of Health Kiril Ananiev to the competition to keep a close eye on the matter. That didn’t help much. Since the Bulgarian league has resumed, the limited admission fans have shown several times that they really don’t care about the rules.
Borissov was emphatically offended by the spectators, most of whom refused the mask provided free of charge at the entrance. The referee also interrupted the game in the second half for a few minutes after the followers threw smoke bombs on the field.
Lokomotiv supporters showed a banner with “White Lives Matter”, apparently making a statement against the demonstrations against racism. In the stands of Bulgarian football there have been more expressions of racism, which have previously led to worldwide horror.
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