Turkey Fan Situation is Completely Crazy 

Fun fact: This game was officiated by the same ref who got punched in the face by that club chairman earlier this year. Well, it's not really fun but it is a fact...

Saw the word “turkey” and knew what happened immediately 💀💀💀

Just because the marathon is done doesn’t mean you’re running is RUN

Batshuais round house kick was the only highlight.

HE RAN!

Michy batshuyis spin kick should be in the next eafc

Oh Z as a long time fan and a Turkish person, lovely to hear you talk about Turkish League, %100 agreeing with your words, it is absolutely ridiculous by us this year, even more so than before and I didn't think I could say that, but wait until Galatasaray-Fenerbahce Game comes, it's not looking good and I fear people would be hurt...

Zealand: So guess what happened in Turkey… All of us (looking at each other): *OH SHIT, HERE WE GO AGAIN*

i always find it kinda impressive how far they can throw these half full shitty plastic cups. i could just be dumb bc ive never tried to fling one of those before but its always so insane that they can launch those so far

I remember when Dortmund lost the Bundesliga Championship last season, they posted a video on Twitter with the players standing in front of the "yellow wall" crying and singing with their fans. It was the most emotional moment of the season. A Turkish guy commented saying something like "if this happened in Turkey we would have stormed the field and vandalized everything. We are far from civilized". I didn't think it could be this bad. Apparently it is.

I think football federations need to start giving points deductions for mass fan incidents (I don't think a club should be punished for 1 or 2 fans, mostly because 1 or 2 fans are not representative of a whole fanbase, and also I think if you started punishing incidents of singular fans, I think you'd have rival fans sneaking into other team's sections to give them points deductions). All that "we're just passionate fans wanting the best for our club" arguments go straight out of the window if committing acts of violence sees their club deducted points. Clubs have more of a prerogative to keep rival fans out of the wrong ends of the stands as well then.

Eric Cantona would've had a blast playing in Turkey

And in other news, Tottenham have announced they will be playing friendlies against Trabzonspor because they also want to pick up some cups. Ba dum tsss

In the Netherlands they stop the match almost immediately when something is thrown and fans and media and everybody else don't like that either. I'd rather have that than any of this chaos

Some say he never stopped running. He keeps running around Central Park to this day like a lost blacked-out puppy with a receding hairline

Im playing an FM save in Turkey right now at Hatayspor, I beat Besiktas 5-1 in their stadium and I imagined that something like this would have gone down 😂

Penguiz0 of the football world hits again

Some context from the perspective of a Fener fan: "This dude #1": Dusan Tadic (Serbian) "This dude #2": Dominik Livakovic (Croatian) The ref is the same one who was beaten by one of the club presidents (clubs that are run by an owner are a minority in Turkey) a few months ago. Yes, he should have called the game off at around 60, but he does have the fresh trauma I guess. Then again, no other ref would be able to do so either, not when there is an election for local governments (municipalities) mere weeks away. Yes, that most probably would play a role in such a decision. No, it *should* never, ever play a role in such a decision. Trabzonspor and Fenerbahçe have been rivals ever since Trabzonspor's first 'chips decades earlier (most of the fans in the stands probably weren't even alive back then), when these two clubs were the only ones who could compete for the title. Things took a darker turn around 2010/11. The story from TS's side is that FB stole their 'chip by literal matchfixing, and the story from FB's side is that the same group of religious zealots who later attempted the 2016 coup fabricated the case to take their chonky cut of that sweet cash flow. I will not elaborate further on this as I am obviously biased. In 2015, FB's team bus was attacked by a (presumably) lone assailant who targeted the bus driver while the bus was on a bridge going to the airport in Trabzon. If it was an attempt to take down the entire team, the assailant(s) certainly thought ahead about how to use a single shot in the most efficient way possible. There is no arrest made for this attempt even to this day. And frankly, this is a country where no crime of such high profile is simply left alone without even taking some temporary scapegoat into custody only to release them when the news cycle has forgotten about the incident. Which brings us to today, where the unspoken reason of existence for Trabzonspor is to challenge for the title, and if that is not possible, to at least prevent Fenerbahçe from taking the title. This is obviously my biased commentary, but unlike the part above, I think the writing is on the Great Wall of China with Neon Lights when it comes to this one.

Zealand, this account is the best. Keep up the great work!

I wouldn't throw my cup, the game means a lot to me, but my cup means a lot more.

If SI add this to the next FM I will **definitely** be playing a Turkish team save!

" Have you ever been inside a Turkish prison?"

Zealand is literally becoming my new football news updater.

Events like this often tell you something about the politics and society of the country involved. I don't know enough about Turkey to say if this is the case here, but I'd be interested to hear from people who do.

Zealand jokes on you - *life is a marathon. Once you start, you could never stop your feet running!*

More turtles?

congrats on the half marathon daddy Z

You should have seen 90s and early 2000s. In a Galatasaray Fenerbahce game 3000 flares were thrown to the pitch. Another game ( google Sulu derby Galatasaray-Fenerbahce) there was nothing not thrown to the pitch including cell phones. People were going away games with Samurai swords, axes and ninja stars. Then everything became heavily regulated. Besiktas fans are also mental.

Hi Zealand, I watched this game live, I’m a fanatic Fenerbahçe fan from Australia. I’ve never missed a game and seeing this live was heartbreaking. As a club we are giving the most uefa coefficient points and are in the QF of conference league, just to be treated like this by our own nation fans. Not only did they attack foreign players who are world known but they attacked their own national players who were called up to the team. Ferdi Kadioglu is injured now due to a hit from a fan. Fenerbahce has been dealing with this for years. If you do a quick google stage, our team bus got shot up. ACTUAL GUNS. I hope you read and see this comment. This was a very dark day for Turkish league and also a very upsetting day for all fenerbahce fans.

I'm from Argentina, that was very normal. I work with Turkish people, we always argue about who has the craziest football stories

Dude, I was visiting NYC just this weekend and when my partner and I were walking, I swear to god I saw someone on the street who looked like you! Thought I was hallucinating! Congratulations on completing the NYC Half-Marathon!

Genuinely there should be a year long ban on fans at football in Turkey -

Fans should be banned from Turkish matches until the end of the season at the very least.

Now Zealand, we need you to run a full marathon and qualify for the Olympics

Every fan who throws a cup needs to be charged with assault.

g'wan Zealand lad, good on you for the marathon

The stands are built too closely to the pitch. In Croatia we have the ultras way up above, they would have to make a 15 meter drop down jump in order to run onto the field. Cage them elsewhere. Also, as a Croatian, I am furious at what happened to Livaković. You missed that part of the clip Zealand, the guy that Batshuayi attempts to kick, punches Liva in the face. Our #1 goalkeeper went to play in Turkey and now he's being assaulted.

Good job on the half marathon Z!!!!

If you truly love the game you must love your opponent because there's no game without the opponent

Mrs. Tarkowski is WAG #2 right now, but I'll have to watch the show to see if Wanda's getting her belt taken off her

Good old Futbol….. love it 💪🏽💪🏽.

This is match which almost got Livakovic totally out of national team matches in some friendly cup later on this week. Thankfully, he was fine after all, but c'mon Turkey please, stop it, have some help

If the club was given a large points deduction for this, I don’t think it would happen again in the Turkish league

This is a normal thing for the balkans,you dont celebrate in the middle of the pitch you go inside not saying this is normal but you lose as a footballer when you engage,just run to the locker rooms pretty sure the players will be banned

Zealand u forgot to point out that the ref in this game was the same one that got hit by a club’s owner a few months ago

you know in the netherlands, if there's two consecutive instances of even 1 cup on the side of the pitch, the game gets cancelled

I grew up in the 80's and hooliganism was everywhere in football. I loved the sport, but I wouldn't go to watch a match live until I was 10 years old. The kind of people who engaged in this then were self-described "Ultra's", which is why I've always had a problem with the term becoming popularised over the last decade. I hear the word and I still reflexively think of the Ultra's "culture" I grew up with. Thankfully it doesn't mean the same thing anymore, as (most) fan-bases have evolved... at least in most places.

Next time you think you live in a crazy place, watch a Turkish football match lol.

You don’t hospitality of Trabzon fans? Fenerbahce players were thirsty, fans threw water cups. They were called, fans threw flares. And at the end they wanted to join celebrations by storming the pitch.

Fenerbahçe sports club is playing victim but in 2012 when Galatasaray won title in Fenerbahçe’si stadium, thousands of Fenerbahce fans stormed the pitch, attacked cops. Outside of the stadium a gas station had exploded in air.

They're lucky Graeme Souness wasn't manager.

zealand, your hair is great. I went bald at 17

Turkey and Indonesia have the craziest out of control fan's, I swear have the craziest fan's.

I can't %100 blame the ref for not stopping the match, he was the one who got punched a few months ago and probably didn't want that to happen again if he stopped the match. The ones to blame are the federation and whoever's in charge of the stadium security. They knew something like this was coming

Whilst I agree that, yes, the ref should've stopped the match, the players also could've just left Trabzonspor should 100% be penalised to the fullest extent, and fans banned from their stadium for a while. The referee should also be punished for the failure of stopping the match.

Really puts a few tennis balls at Reading into perspective 😂

Well done!! 🎉🎉 You did it!!

oh my sweet Prince

Talking about Turkey and starting the video with Iran Crazy

Hey Z, The Turkish Super Lig IS on TV in our area (I'm like right across the river from you in NJ). It's carried by BeIN Sports.

The first player to attack that first fan, I think it was Oyasi, delivered some devastating ground and pound

I am not one for conspiracies but at this point something has to be going on at the turkish FA because you mist a lot of the insanely stupid decisions/calls made this season against Fener

You ran, roud of ya Z!

To give the context in 2011 Trabzonspor went unbeaten in last 15 games of the season they were going to win the league after almost 30 years but Fener had a similar streak and Fener won the league by goal differences. The thing is in most of the Fener matches there were shady calls I would say that are generally in favor of Fener and after many years some officials from Fener kind of admitted doing something. It is a mess actually. And still to this day in official Trabzonspor website they call themselves as the 2011 season champion.😅

Congrats on running half a marathon.....anyways don't forget to run today 👍🏾

Turkey are just playing Red Card Soccer on PS2 😂

OmG, THhat singing has saved the whales

Hi there! As a Turkish guy, I think we will all see another "Heysel disaster" in the following times. Others said that but I think I also have to say that the ref is the same ref who had been punched. But there are lots of brutality in turkish stadiums. For almost 8 or 9 years no derby been played with visitor fans. The last one was between göztepe vs altay in 2023, a second tier match that stopped by an altay fan shooting a flare against göztepe fans an badly injuring one. All things break loose and Turkish officials, like they do all the time in Turkey, completely ignores everything. Man, a Trabzonspor fan shot Fenerbahçe bus with a rifle about ten years ago! Every derby is being played like this in Turkey, and the officials look like they love this!

HE RAN! Now go run again!

Well, actually everybody just were expecting something like this to happen but It doesn't make it right at all. As A Turkish guy, I know and I experience the tension between Fenebahce and Trabzonspor and I can say as a Fenerbahce fan that we really hate eachother to death. But I couldn't blame anyone more than the ref and Federation about the incident. They led things to come in a position like this and what happened was really shocking. Yet again I hope, one day we will remember these kind of incidents as a bad moments of the past and we will modernize our league and associated assets.

Congratulations on your run!

Zealand i beg you to watch what we call “Sulu Derbi”

Zealand, I am proud of you for running, but even if you can’t feel your legs you must run more

How is it a DERBY? Stambul and Trabzon are 1100 km apart.

I'll advise you to search for the Tel Aviv derby of November 2014.

Z is spot on with his last comment. If you're a player, would you ever want to play in a league where this happens? They need to get this under control or pretty soon no half decent player will even want to play there.

Anyone who wants to know even more about this and whole football in Turkey situation, just let me know

All I want to say about this whole situation is that Fenerbahce is the most secular club in Turkey, and some people don’t like this.. What a coincidence that a lot of influential people in Turkish politics and organized crime are from Trabzon. Coincidence?

Jokes on you Zealand, it was Tom Brady that threw the coin.

Big boy finally ran

Fun fact Z the referee of this game is the one who was punched earlier this year, maybe he was having ptsd from that and couldn’t stop the game

This is what severe indigestion looks like

I guess you'll never read this (I wouldn't either, too many comments) but I would add that last year a Fiorentina player (Bianco) got his nose broken by a fan in Turkey (I think the team was Basekashir?) at the end of a Conference League match.

I agree with everything you said, until your description of the players celebrating in the middle of the pitch post game. There was obvious tension, the Trabzonspor fans took it as incitement. And it sort of was. I've never seen that in regular season match. Usually, you finish the game, and get down the tunnel, then celebrate. The score was 3-2 , with a Fenerbache 87 minute winner. Batshuayi scoring the winner

14:00 btw he says attempts; nah that mf needs to be in the ufc he nailed that mf

Zee, the turks are right, you don't understand. If you finish a match like this and you DON'T want to rush into the field and punch someone, you don't really understand passion for football. That being said, we humans are, or at least should be, rational beings. It is normal to WANT to do this, it is not normal to actually do it, and in that you are absolutely correct. This behavior is unnaceptable.

most sane turkish football fans

one crucial thing you missed here was that the first guy attacking the players had a KNIFE with him which IMO makes the reaction of the players incredibly reasonable 10:58

The reason the referee did not send the players off the pitch is clear: This is apparently normal in Turkey.

If this was in England we would never hear the end of it

I think in extreme cases like this, severe points deductions should be considered. I'm talking like 10 or 15 maybe more, this could have been a LOT worse and someone in the stands could easily have had a more dangerous weapon or item, absolutely insane. Either that or ban Trabzonspor fans for a the rest of the season. The punishment needs to be extremely harsh to stamp out this behaviour and set an example. As much as it is a fan issue and maybe the team itself should not be punished, a message needs to be sent to ensure no repeat incidents

talk about uruguayian football, a refeeree was hit 2 times by a stone and football was canceled

We need more chocolate turtles

Great video

Turkish hockey is crushing it

remember the friendly between Argentina and Brazil a few months ago?

HE HAS RAN

Every week there is violent news coming from Turkish sports events. I have no idea how this needs to be handled, but something is definately wrong in some layer of the population in Turkey.

lmao how little can a brute controll himself in order to beat up a fan

As a country, we are so fucked as it is. We need a hard reset or something.