There were amazing scenes at the Serbia v Albania clash tonight with the game abandoned after a a drone carrying the Albania flag flew above the pitch at the Stadion Partizana in Belgrade.

It’s the first time Albania have visited Belgrade since 1967 but none of the country’s fans were allowed to attend tonight.

The crazy incidents were charted by freelance football writer Nick Ames on Twitter who was in attendance at the game.

It’s believed a drone flew over the stadium with the Albania flag hanging from it and all hell broke loose forcing English referee Martin Atkinson to suspend the heated clash.

Fans invaded the pitch with some players physically assaulted before both teams fled for the dressing rooms and the game was later abandoned.

Ames tweeted the following:

This video shows the moment the drone flew over the stadium:

And Serbian star Aleksander Mitrovic pulls down the flag in this video:

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  1. Although this is very heavy provocation from Albanians for which they should maybe even beven be suspended, somehow it will again blow in the face of Serbs and it will once again be Serbain team to suffer great consequences..

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    • No. There is no Alabanian Tiffos. There are only Serbs

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    • Lo u a dic.k how is a flag provocation

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      • there should be any objects on the felled any way. Albanian player ATTACKING Serbian player REMOVING OBJECT is PROVOCATION !

      • That flag isn’t the flag of Albania. It’s the flag of ”Greater Albania” which includes parts of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Macedonia, essentially an iredentist, nationalist, borderline nazi concept which was concieved sometime in the early 20th century and almost fully achieved during WW2 when Albanians sided with the Italian fascists and Nazis.

      • Showing the flag of Albania is not a provocation. However, presenting the flag of GREATER Albania – the ideology of which is taking over the land of ALL countries around Albania and annexing it to ALB state – IS a provocation, especially when you let it fly across the stadium in the middle of the game.

    • And throwing flares and whatnot at our players before that was fine with you, since you didn’t mention it? And 14000 got threatened by a flag so they decided to run over the pitch and hit our players in the face. Get out of here.

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    • just shut the fuck up!! THEY started first with flares and shit! they even throw a FUCKING CHAIR, GEEZ a CHAIR a FUCKING CHAIR! THEY BETTER NOT COME TO ALBANIA! ITS GoNNA BE A TOTAL RIOT.

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    • Yes,
      Serbia is racist country. This is the time the world see your face. I cant believe how is Serbia want to be in European Union.
      You should be isolated from the rest of the world.
      I hope the rest of the world see what Kosovo people suffered from serbian .
      Bye….. Bye …… BYE BYE BYE
      serbia

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      • Not racist but stupid for letting you come over in hordes and overpopulating our land to the point were we became foreigners in our own home.

    • Give me one example when a flag was considered as a provocation. If there wasnt the flag sure would have been something else. Come on deep deep deep inside u know that is a pile of shite. Move away from the smell and let your brain talk sense

      You owe that much to yourself

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  2. Lets remember that it was the Serbian fans who started throwing flares at Albanian players in the first place.

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    • They started to throw flares because they wanted to send signal to players that something is happening. The drone came in first with “Kosovo Independence” flag, and that was the trigger.

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      • Fuck you idiot. the fucking serb cunts better not come or they will be going in hell.

      • There is no other way to communicate right, so let’s throw stuff on the pitch. PLEASE

        I challenge you with the next piece of bullshit you will come up, as an excuse. The dog ate my book and had to tell mami to change my diaper

  3. it’s a flag. fans were not allowed to be there. the sight of my flag provokes you?

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    • It is a flag of Kosovo with Albanian symbols. Would you be calm if flag of Serbia with map of Kosovo and Albania as its territories would have been seen over stadium in Tirana?

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      • NO! It would be as dumb and moronic as this! You have to be really sad ass to perform a stunt like this, crappy low life. Remember that Serbian fan a**hole in Italy who climbed the fence? Same type of scum. EXTRA: The drown came from outside the stadium, but the remote was held by couple of Albanian fans in Albanian Box. Serbian police didn’t want to let them go onto the stadium but some diplomats insisted!

      • That flag isn’t the flag of Albania. It’s the flag of ”Greater Albania” which includes parts of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Macedonia, essentially an iredentist, nationalist, borderline nazi concept which was concieved sometime in the early 20th century and almost fully achieved during WW2 when Albanians sided with the Italian fascists and Nazis.

      • Dear Peter

        That wouldn’t happen in Albania, I guarantee you that. :))
        Plus we are sorry that Serbia didn’t kill all Albanians and that flag is a reminder of their Hitler like behaviour and the fucking evil they caused to a lot of souls.

        So Boohoo a flag made the little boys cry, all those families are due an apology by that country.

    • Shut up, you dont anything about Balcan problems

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    • That’s not a flag,that’s a map that if it was for real,it would mean that many Serbs,Macedonians,Montenegrins and Greeks would be dead or in exile,so yes it provokes me. And one of those two people on the “flag” was killing my people back in the day. Playing innocent again? Bunch of pus…s. ISIS of Europe!

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  4. Seria was going to have a gool!!! it’s way they have help from tifos to stop playing

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  5. Provocation was planned, staged and well directed. Serbian player grabbed flag and drone to remove it and then he was attacked by two albanian players who stole the flag, and then everything else happened. Considering very tight situation between serbs and albanians in recent history, this provocation is extremely heavy – Kosovo Independence flag in centre of Serbian capital and then attack for the flag by albanian players (Serbian player was not tearing the flag, he was just holding it). For the sake of football I think Serbia and Albania shouldn’t have been placed in the same group. There is no place for politics on the field. But tomorrow noone will be talking about provocation, the drone and albanian players, everyone will be talking only about couple of serbian “fans” who came on the field.. The whole idea is to suspend Serbia from qualifications. And since Serbia never makes some good result on Euros it’s not big loss.. :/

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    • it was not just a grab, look at the video the 2 Albanians went there protecting the national flag. Where the FUCK are your eyes?? CHECK AND YOUR FUCKING EARS AND TRY TO TRANSLATE WHAT WERE THEY SAYING INTO THE serbian STADIUM!!!!

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      • It wasn’t the flag of Albania. It was black flag with map of Kosovo with Albanian crest, but you Albanians are so ignorant that you don’t even know how your flag looks like. They weren’t defending the flag of their country but politics of Greater Albania!!!

    • It was clear to see how the flag was handled, and yes all those Serbians there had a choice, to be civil but they can’t hide who they really are.

      Albania feels sorry that they felt they needed to protect themselves agains 24 people and a flag. I feel sorry for them, throwing things on the pitch, shouting kill Albanians, it must be post hard.

      I wonder how they will shit each others face when they will be surrounded by millions of Albanians and more flags.

      Come one some common sense guys, you can be passionate about the country but please shitty excuses. Please grow up

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  6. Come on albania . thnx god match start it and hope they win so i can go to ladbrokes head held high :p

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  7. Must be played in neutral country

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  8. I think it was amazing that the Albanian flag flew across the stadium, and I was very happy the Albanian soccer player grabbed the flag. No flag can be taken down and thrown on the floor. Just imagine how the Americans would feel if their flag was treated like that.

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    • Yeah, but it was never thrown on the ground, look at the video. The provocation was just like the albanian people – sleazy :/ Always have been and always will be. I feel sorry for them 😦

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      • Dear moon ray, I wish your family never experience what Albanian people suffered from Serbians.

        Don’t feel sorry for us, we give to everyone what they deserve

    • It was the flag of independend Kosovo joined to Albania

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  9. It was not Albanian flag ,it was flag of Great Albania with parts of Serbia,Greece and Macedonia in that Great Albania.Soon as Albanian mafia is destroyed there will not be any more funds for those criminals and extremists.Cheers.

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    • do u even know the history of balcan? no! go back to 1912 review your history lectures and then come give your opinion.

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  10. GJ Albanians ! 😉 serbs, say no to racism and fascism

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  11. If it wasn’t for the guy who had grabbed the flag, I think you know what the Serbian player would have done with it. Just stop and think about it, would the Serbian player just hand the flag into safe hand. I get where your coming from, but Albanians have been treated unfairly for a very long time now, so they are done with being treated unjust, and will protect there country no matter what. Even if it’s the small things.

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    • Do not lie please.
      Serbian player didnt do anything with a flag. Albanian crminal, organs trafficing, white slavery and drog trafficing are the stuff that you were well knowed.
      That flag was not Albanian flag, it was a flag od albanian terorrist, flag of “Great Albania”.
      But enjoy, Albanians are al qaeda base in Europe, and you helped them exist 🙂

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  12. This is not Albanian flag, do not lie mate!
    This is a facsist flag of “Greater Albania”, which means to take teritories from Serbia (Kosovo), half of Macedonia, nothern Greeek and parts of Montenegro.
    And that flag is in serbian hands now.

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    • When you wave a red fabric against a cow he follows it. But you are supposed to be humans. Can you take a second and think : It is a provocation; I am not a cow to follow it. Does not matter what fabric Albanians used, and if they would put Serbia within Albania ,you or your friends failed to reason, and this is not good for human beings. An intelligent person always finds time to think and reason. You failed to show you are humans.

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  13. How many people are so happy when something happens in Belgrade. Anyway cups were there and nothing happened but pure souls kinda take a moment of smile. Anyway Serbs gonna beet Albanians in the meddle of Albania!!! Take a smile at that time, or you are planing to interrupt that match too 😀

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  14. I get the that the flag had other country territories, but before the 100 year war Greece, Serbia, and Montenegro, that was all Albania. Wasn’t it?

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    • No it wasn’t. It was Turkey.

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    • No, it is not 🙂 Actually, Albania first time appear 1912. Created by western great powers. In middle ages, that territory of today Albania, was a part of Serbian empire, or Byzantine_Empire.

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  15. And why was the Albanian in Serbian territory because, the Serbs took it. And after the that they are free

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    • Why there are Serbs in Albanian territories? Because you took it away from Serbs!

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      • Lol y u here anyway u sad man coming and insulting albanians for no reson ffs get a life m8te

  16. This is a shame serbian people are sucking our dick is always their fault,,, we will fuck you in tirana just came or your players we will fuck them till the death

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  17. Peter are you scared? Find a map and open some books after go to commit a suicide!

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  18. It doesn’t matter whose to blame for the fighting and the game being abandoned, it’s UEFA’s fault for putting Serbia and Albania in the same group. Anyone that knows anything at all about history would know that their matches would never go over good. This is just as ridiculous as putting Russia and Ukraine in the same group would be. The ethnic tensions are too wild to play a civilized game and I don’t blame them.

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    • Finally…a sensible comment!

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    • In theory you are right, this is something that could have been controlled given the past history. what if they ended up in finals ( that wouldn’t have happened just to be clear) UEFA should not get these teams to play at all in the same championship?

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  19. Albanian heroes, even blood for country flag, when retreating from foreign country its soldier duty to bring flag home ! Serbs sang, kill slaughter so shiptar dont exist, kill siptar, they didnt had respect for national song, droping flares…, all people who defend serbia nationalist, check italy, and serbia bosnia match, you will see uncivilized reaction of serbs( serb is mix of bosnia ,albanian(illiyria), turkish , vlah(old roman blood) so true serb dont exist as genetic , and as any weaknees he will be extinced as his blood is , Great Albania(Kosovo , Macedonia …) Great Bosnia ( Sandžak, Vojvodina, Monte Negro, and part of croatia coast) brothers in blood forever !

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    • Bosnians don’t exists. You are Serbs that took Islam. Term Bosnian are made up during the war in 90’s. Sad sad person you are.

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  20. This is not Albanian flag, it is flag of Great Albania inclufing parts of Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece and whole Corfus.

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  21. First of all fans or anyone shouldn’t have thrown any objects at the soccer players, because they had nothing/and or no clue that this was going to happen. Just like the Serbians were shocked so was Albanian team. Serbs had no right to throw anything at them and blame it at them.

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  22. Albania Kosovo Macedonia Montenegro and Qameria is Albanian. How should we explane this to you Serbian people.
    We are Albanian we are real people we have are culture are language and are Albanian blog.
    So, Serbian people move on give up the world now know your real face your the racist country total animals.
    Albanian are real people. We are not animal like you.

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  23. with all respect to gipsy people , but just to remind you the Serbian are Gipsy people coming from Rusia.
    However this is not excuse to be racist.

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  24. I get that the flag was Great Albania including other countries, but whoever sent the flag, was trying to show to everyone, that is how Albania should be today. Since all that land that Albanian doesn’t have, belongs to other countries. Who was willing enough to attack innocent Albanians, also called a genocide, just to get the land they wanted.

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    • Do you even know what you’re saying? You were all calling Serbia out on the idea of “greater Serbia” that covered all the teritories where Serbs lived for centuries, but when you bring out your WWII boarders flag,being alies to nazi Germany, that’s ok. Not in my city, not in Belgrade, not in Serbia, not any more. We lost over million people in the WWII only, and you were always on the side of the agrresors, wheter they were Turkish Austro-Hungarian, or German. I know you existed on the balkan for a long long time, but so have we, and we are not going to give you a cm of our land. Stay where you are, and keep your “culture” history, and your damn flag out of Serbia!

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  25. And aint nobody laughing Peter

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  26. If I dont have any culture , then how about your Stuped Serbian.

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    • We have Nobel Prize winner. Do you have one??? I guess I know much more about you than you can imagine. I’m no moron like you. I’ve read Ismail Kadare long time ago. Have you ever read anything? I mean anything.

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      • Come on Peter, you sound like a smart guy. Serbians could have shown a Nobel price behaviour but they didn’t so anything you say in reality is nothing just excuses

  27. The flag was Great Albania and is what it should have been long time ago. Fuck the serbs and well done to whoever did it and made the serbs look like cunts. Soon that flag will be reality once for all.

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    • You didn’t have a chance then,you don’t have a chance now because if you did,knowing you,you would’ve already taken it. So relax there London patriot.

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  28. peter go to sleep albania win tonight

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  29. For fuck sake was a football match shouldn’t be politics in sport .since we albanians were not allowed in stadium is only fair to drone a flag .after all is our flag lol.lots of serbians had theyr own flag .is not about provocation to serbes they have done nothing to us and us to them .eriona get a life y u humiliate yourselfvhere by bringin 1912 lol is 2014 now andcwe allvhumans and shouldvget along asones .lol

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  30. I wasn’t humiliating myself but proving that the flag was ours and not a big puzzle with small pieces belonging to others

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  31. Why are you people so scared of a flag even if it is a Great Albanian.Its a symbol and should be respected as it should have been done with the albanian national anthem and not whistling and swearing like ignorants.Under no circumstances the Serbian player should have acted bearing in mind the situation.The throwing of flares did not start then.That was the third time I saw flares on the pitch.Come on people,get real.Is this the first time this happens with all Serbs ultras and their players?.Are you really trying to get away with this as victims again after what we saw for them 42 prior minutes.Them two Albanian players are the heroes there.Well done boys.We are all proud of you.This has nothing to do with football and we all know that.20 years ago Serbia had 23 million people and now is feeling very small.Even their half brothers from Monte negro abandon them.I wonder why?
    Anyway it was going to be a good football game,well played both sides.
    I am a football fan

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    • For a football fan, you talk too much about politics. Before you make accusations, go back to school and brush up on your history. You don’t care about our history,fine,but then STFU.

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    • BTW, if you ever see ISIS flag being carried by a drone in your city,at a spot event,just embrace it,because this is what that flag represents to us.

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  32. Well deserved three points for Albania tonight. Serbia proved they are not capable of organizing a secure match and the visiting players and journalists were at risk and felt threatened by local hooligans. Hope UEFA will give Serbia an exemplary ban.

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  33. peter i remember you mother teresa she is Albanian ,she was cristian, Albania have cristian muslim and ortodocs and we love each other and we love are land and are blood.

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  34. Anyone got return to stake? lol ladbrokes hasntvrefunded my money ffs :p ok eriona i get your point:p

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  35. At the end i am happy that was a flag. That could been a bomb easily.

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  36. O sa mire me ken Shqiptare.

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  37. Albania is a cancer of the world, a malignant disease that needs to be removed

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    • be careful what you wish for they say, after all last time you had NATO teaching you a lesson.

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      • Are you NATO or…Big pimps do things for their bitches from time to time,but they sure give them a bitch slap once they’re done with them.

  38. Sees the one that tried to kill us all once, and in that process had no heart when souls were being taken away. Ant till that day I know Serbians would do it again. What was wrong with us being angry and crazy for our country. Stop trying to be the innocent when all Albanians know Serbs are the worst of them all.

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  39. Facts:
    1. Every albanian that was not part of the delegation and would enter the stadium would have been arrested and prosecuted! Notice given 2 days prior to the game!

    2. The entire stadium whistled the albanian national anthem! No wonders why, they’re serbians after all

    2. The serbian were chanting “die albanians, die” from the first minute of the game. Who cares?!

    3. The serbians were quite happy with their team for the first 20 mins as they were actually playing way better than we were!

    4. After the 20mins the albanian team rallied and were playing much better. In the first corner the albanians had the serbs starting throwing flares.

    5. Sometime before the 40th minute a flag carrying the Albanian symbols with written word “Authoctones” carried by a drone showd up in the sky and the serbs throwd flares in the field.

    6. A serbian player caught the flag and was helped by another to drag it down. That is not a player job. That’s why there is a referee and stuarts that take care of that! If you as a player drag a country symbol down you should expect a reaction from that country players, ok?!

    Check your facts straight before opening you mouth to talk shit! Cheers \_/

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    • Who gave you right to fly Albanian nationalistic flag in my city,my country? Who do you think you are? Your players,athlets, jumped our players like saveges, how did you think crowd was going to respond? You lived like dogs for so many years, you were a dumpster of Europe, and you will always be. Nothing can ever change that! All the best in future,but stay the fuck away from my land.

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  40. Oh really. MHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Fuck you Idiot

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  41. Just saw one of the videos, in reality most of the Serbian players did actually try to break the fight and protect our players. Hope the match in Albania won’t have any incidents

    http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/14/serbia-albania-euro-2016-flag-halted

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  42. Albania we loves you.Croatia will allways support ppl from Albania because we are brothers.

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  43. Ne možete vi protiv LUDIHHH SRBA!!!
    Smrt šiptarima!

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  44. Ne mogu protiv ludih Srba istina.
    FUCK DIRTY ALBANIA

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  45. Well im sorry but I can’t se my eagle in the hand of a serb( others).. As always our neighbors tough others that albanians are bad people and so on.. Though is not true,, and europe is starting to sniff that something is not right i mean they let us joining NATO, well be in europe soon. Everyone is starting to see the truth. PEOPLE CHANGE SERBS DONT.

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  46. Are you kidding me we are the slops and the dirt, but do you know what Kind of things you have done to my people, just because we weren’t strong back then which made us a target, we had America on our sides. They saw the genocide you guys were playing on us, they saw how heartless you were and still are. What if we did all this crap to you, how would you react. You are a disgrace to this world. Stop pretending you are better then us and start being the true selves as in hard-hearted bitches.

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    • Genocide has been happening to the Serbian population on Kosovo i Metohija for the last hundred years. Your countrymen managed to destroy centuries of history in one day of March 2003. If you’ve experienced apartheid then you would have more sympathy for the innocent Serbs who live on Kosovo today,but no,you choose to rationalize the flag that flew in my city tonight. Picture a Serb flag covering Albanian territories flying over Tirana,or even Priština today, you can’t I know. And if it happened,I would be the first one to say that we messed up with that. The difference between you and us,is that we have,for the most part,condemned the war crimes,you celebrate them. You spray paint Serbian landmarks with ISIS acronyms (in the last few days), but when you come across resistance,then it’s the mean Serbs. I am tired of your cry for help but you do everything to instigate the conflict. Just spare us your innocence because its a big fat lie. On one side you are ready to concur the Balkans,but on the other,Serbs are making atrocities against you,and in the mean time,there was never more Albanians in the region and less and less Serbs. You were not happy in Tito’s Jugoslavija,but used idiot Milosevic and his bad politics to win your 100 year dream. Congratulations,now stop playing a victim,unless,of course you want to shed more blood and are setting up the field. I certainly hope you aren’t since I am tired of looking at people dying for inches of land ran by the superpowers.

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  47. Hahahaha poor albanians, the lower race…the genetic experiment gone wrong :))) You can only suck our Serbian dicks, we will soon make a wee meadow of albania, as it’s bad to have such shitty people so close to us..

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  48. Like you have any dicks, you have no idea that what you and your people are doing are the acts of the devil . And I really hope you enjoy hell, oh yeah I almost forgot when your in hell don’t forget to to tell your people I said hi. And by the way we have more balls than your fuckin missed up faces.

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  49. First of all, I’m not sure why the media chooses not show everything…..
    The Albania flag flew above the pitch YES that it true, but there were so many other reasons why the game stopped…
    There were no Albanian fans allowed in stadium, the once that did try to go the Serbs arrested them for no reason. There were no Albanian flags allowed. Serb fans were screaming kill Albanian the whole 40 minutes of the first half, and throwing stuff at them.
    They started fighting in the field, 11 Albanians surrounded by 8 Million Animals. The team even the fans came hitting the players, no one was doing anything about it, They took pleasure out of it . Serbs are animals!

    GET your FACTS right!

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    • You are wrong.Albanian started it with that flag.Its a good thing they menage to go out of there alive after doing such terrible thing.

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      • Weren’t players flying the drone you idiot, but seeing the racism on Serbs sure was the right time to bring it on to show the world that didn’t understand your swearings what you are made of. You’re full of hate

    • That was maybe what you saw, or wanted to saw. UEFA was the one who banned coming off Albanian supporters to Belgrade, and Serbian in the second match. Also, at the beginning, the game was normal, except delaying Albanian players in every possible situation. Were they waiting for something? Drone was carrying nationalistic symbols of ,,Greater Albania,, non-existent state, which includes parts of the neighboring states Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece, and Serbia. The action was planned in advance and carried out by the Albanian officials, who were released to the stadium at the insistence of the EU and the United States.Who are the real savages? I think it’s those who planned and carried out this.

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  50. very bad behaviour from serbians. they should be ashhemed from their behavior.

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  51. I am english and have been to many balkan countrys and met with many people but the serbs well there not a very nice race

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  52. After all you Serbs did and said during a game is just pure racism! Whistling and swearing during our anthem was played, kill albanians and other gestures I think you should be ashamed of your selves.
    But then the spectacular drone thing appeared. You deserved it, after all you did.
    Honestly I hope Serbian team get banned. Animals
    I thought only cows get mad at red flag, obviously Serbs too
    Fuck yourselfs bastards

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