For the first time since they were founded in 2002, the Ultras Gelsenkirchen left the block at halftime in the away game in Düsseldorf (3:5). The active FC Schalke 04 fan scene had seen enough – with another desolate performance in the first half (0:3 at halftime), the team embarrassed themselves, the fans and the entire club.
The Ultras wanted to set another example and left with the half-time whistle. Full of frustration, they wanted to return to Gelsenkirchen – but the return journey ultimately turned out to be more turbulent than expected for the fans of FC Schalke o4.
FC Schalke 04: Ultra brawl after Düsseldorf slap
Some members of the active fan scene were taken to the main train station in shuttle buses – that’s where things really started happening. Blau-Weiß met rival scene members from Cologne. With support from some BVB ultras…
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According to the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”, there was a big fight on platform 16 at Düsseldorf Central Station around 10:40 p.m. on November 25th. A federal police spokesman confirmed that around 20 masked fans of 1. FC Köln and Schalke 04 attacked each other .
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“A 1. FC Köln supporter tried to steal a fan scarf from a Schalke player. “He fought back and pulled a bottle over the Cologne man’s head,” said the police spokesman, describing a scene from the tumult. The Cologne fan had to be taken to hospital injured. The federal police intervened and stopped the fight.
UGE speaks out in the “Blue Letter”.
A week later, during the home game against VfL Osnabrück (4-0), the S04’s active fan scene commented on the incidents in Düsseldorf. “Due to the earlier return journey, it happened that representatives of the Cologne ultra scene and their black and yellow friends who were coming from the home game against Mönchengladbach were also on this train. The attack was countered without any major injuries before the police at Düsseldorf main station put an end to the spectacle,” says the “Blue Letter”, the Schalke Ultras’ bulletin, which the fan scene presents at every home game.
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For the S04 supporters, it was a used evening even apart from the bitter game. It was only in February of this year that there was a brutal attack on the S04 scene by the people of Cologne and Dortmund. At that time there was a mass brawl in front of the UGE clubhouse in Gelsenkirchen.