While waiting several hours for our overnight bus to Pristina, Kosovo, we happened to catch this action on the TV screen in the station's cafe. Not positive which teams were facing off, but the police had put a small but excessively passionate contingent of visiting fans into a certain area of the stands, leaving about 30 meters on either side so no one could even throw things at each other. Instead, the fans turned to lighting paper, plastic, and their clothes with torches and creating such large fires that the game was paused repeatedly in the second half so fire trucks could aim the hoses and water cannons into the stands to put out the largest of them. The smoke was also so bad that at times the cameras were barely able to make out the players on the field. We're guessing a Serbian team was facing off against a Bosnian side…clearly things are just beneath the surface over here.
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