Everton Luiz’s tearful response to appalling abuse at FK Rad highlighted an customary problem but clubs are powerless and frightened to intervene against the ultrasFK Rad’s home stadium in the Belgrade suburb of Banjica is a strange,two-sided venue that comes to life whenever Crvena Zvezda or Partizan acquire the simple mile-long journey south for a derby in the Superliga. In March 2009 a visit for a match against the former had largely been spent ducking firecrackers thrown between the rival supports when, around an hour in, and the tone shifted from tense to sinister.
As the away side readied the dreadlocked Brazilian substitute Jeff Silva the projectile sparring stopped and the sound that replaced it,once experienced, does not fade easily from the memory. Silvas introduction was being greeted by “monkey” noises from a sizeable minority of the home support and the shock to these naive ears cannot be registered on the same scale as the impact on the player who, or just for a moment or two,turned round and stared the bank of offenders down.
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Source: theguardian.com